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The COVID Wake-Up Call

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Project Syndicate
Robert Muggah

If the international community does not respond to the coronavirus pandemic by creating new global structures to deal with such outbreaks in the future, it will be guilty of criminal neglect.

Coronavirus cases in the United States mapped out. Global Health

How Cities Around the World Are Handling COVID-19

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World Economic Forum
Robert Muggah

It is not just cities, but also their local and global supply chains, travel networks, airports and specific neighborhoods that are sources of contagion.

Paris coronavirus. Man wearing a mask walking in front of the Eiffel Tower on the first day of Paris lock-down.
Fran Boloni
Global Cities

Trump Calls the Coronavirus a 'Foreign Virus,' Exposing His Flawed Worldview

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Chicago Tribune
Ivo H. Daalder

Viruses don't carry passports, and when they are as easily transmitted between humans as the novel coronavirus, they are going to spread around the world.

President Trump, joined by Vice President Pence, left, takes questions from reporters during a Coronavirus Task Force update at the White House, Feb. 29, 2020.
The White House
Global Health

Pandemics Are Also an Urban Planning Problem

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Bloomberg CityLab
Ian Klaus

Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.

Cleaning workers disinfect the streets and public places of the Itaewon Multicultural District in Seoul, South Korea on May 12, 2020.
Reuters
Global Health

Can 50 Years of Minimizing Nuclear Proliferation Continue?

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New York Times
Ivo H. Daalder

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty has mostly succeeded in keeping more countries out of the nuclear club. But as U.S. alliances fray, its future success is not assured.

An image of an atomic bomb test of the coast of the Marshall Islands
WikiImages
Defense and Security

Are the US and Europe Destined for Splitsville?

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Chicago Tribune
Ivo H. Daalder

The alliance between the United States and Europe is broken. That much became clear over three days of intensive discussions in Munich in February 2020.

President Trump at Davos
President Trump at Davos
US Foreign Policy

The Heartland Needs Immigrants to Grow

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Barron's
John Austin

States like Michigan are feeling the lack of international students and refugees as immigration restrictions cut off the Midwest's economic lifeline.

 Candidates taking the Oath of Allegiance at a Naturalization Ceremony at College of DuPage
COD Newsroom
Migration

Americans Aren't as Eager to Retreat From the Middle East as Politicians Seem to Think

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The Hill
Coauthors

Presidential candidates and the President are overstating Americans’ desire for a full-scale retreat from the Middle East.

M2A2 Bradley IFVs of the 4th Battalion, 118th Infantry Regiment, attached to 218th MEB, accompany a U.S. patrol in eastern Syria, 13 November 2019
United States Army
Defense and Security

Why Asia Needs to Move Beyond Plastic Bag Bans

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The Diplomat
Kris Hartley

Seriously addressing the region’s plastic apocalypse will require moving beyond blunt moves such as plastic bag bans.

Plastic Bag Waste
Ben Kerckx
Climate and the Environment

Can Millennials Save US Foreign Policy?

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Responsible Statecraft
Craig Kafura

In mainstream media outlets, Millennials have spent the last decade on a multi-industry killing spree. Now Millennials, along with neighboring Gen X and Gen Z, are coming for your politics.

Immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California
Jonathan McIntosh
Public Opinion