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COVID-19 Silver Lining? New Opportunity for Midwest's Smaller Communities

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Global Food for Thought by John Austin

Several forces propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic may intersect to spin new life into more of the Midwest's still-struggling factory towns, second-tier cities, and rural hinterlands.

West 5th Street in Ashtabula, Ohio. Food and Agriculture

Publics Remain Supportive of Policies to Prevent the Spread of Coronavirus

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

An update on global public opinion on the COVID-19 pandemic reviews survey results from countries in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

Map of coronavirus cases in the US
Brian McGowan
Global Health

​Innovating in a Crisis: How the World Food Programme is Adapting to COVID-19 and Why You Should Care

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Global Food for Thought by Bernhard Kowatsch

With global and local markets disrupted by COVID-19, it is vital that the World Food Programme maintain its food assistance programmes, which offer a lifeline to 87 million vulnerable people around the world.

The World Food Programme delivers food
UN Photo
Food and Agriculture

Vulnerable, Vilified, and Essential: Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylum-Seekers during COVID-19

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Global Insight by John Slocum

How did President Donald Trump's 2020 suspension of the issuance of green cards for people outside of the United States due to the COVID-19 pandemic affect immigrants?

Mexican immigrants walk across a bridge at the US border after being deported during the COVID-19 pandemic
REUTERS
Global Health

When Fighting Pathogens 'Pay a Little Now or a Lot Later'

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Global Food for Thought by Coauthors

The COVID-19 pandemic shows that we have failed to prepare for what is coming next, and we must learn to mitigate risks by quickly and adequately funding research to protect our health and the crops we need to survive.

Scientists prepare bacteria samples in a diseases lab
CDC
Food and Agriculture

Immigration Policies Could Create Risks for Candidates on Both Sides

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

On April 20, President Trump announced that an executive order to suspend immigration into the United States during the coronavirus crisis. But what does the American public think of this?

A nearly empty flight from Beijing to LA amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Mx. Granger
Migration

How Life in Our Cities Will Look After the Coronavirus Pandemic

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Foreign Policy
Robert Muggah

The pandemic is transforming urban life. We asked 12 leading global experts in urban planning, policy, history, and health for their predictions.

An empty cafe in Paris in the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
David Mapletoft
Global Health

Kim Jong-un Rumors

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WGN Radio
Karl Friedhoff

Friedhoff discusses the health of Kim Jong-un, the possibilities and rumors and how they could all play out with Dean Richards' Sunday Morning

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US-Iran Tensions Escalate Amid COVID-19

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Deep Dish on Global Affairs Podcast

Brookings' Suzanne Maloney and the German Marshall Fund's Ariane Tabatabai join Deep Dish to examine tensions between the United States and Iran and the future of the US-Iran standoff.

Iranian ships harass US Navy
Reuters
Global Health

Publics Prioritize Disease Control Efforts Over Economic Re-opening

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Running Numbers by Coauthors

An update on global public opinion on COVID-19 reviews survey results from countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Gulf States.

People in masks sit on a subway train
Shawn Ang
Global Health