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On COVID-19, Foreign Policy Elites are Just as Polarized as the Public
New survey results suggest that President-elect Biden will have to work hard to cultivate bipartisan buy-in for efforts to rein in the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
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India's COVID-19 Crisis Pushes the US to Get Vaccine Diplomacy Right
“Viruses don't respect borders and neither do their knock-on effects,” Elizabeth Shackelford writes in the Chicago Tribune. “An uncontrolled outbreak in a country of 1.4 billion people is a crisis for all.”
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Urban Governance: Cities in a Time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the quality of governance and competence of the world’s leaders. When politicians and civil servants fail to deliver, they quickly lose credibility and legitimacy.
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Parklets, Traffic-Free Zones and Outdoor Eating: How COVID Is Transforming Our Cities
"Both cities and citizens have often shown that they can adapt rapidly under crisis conditions," the Council's Non-resident Senior Fellow Michele Acuto writes with Dan Hill in the Conversation.
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The Best Medicine for a COVID-19 Economy? More Education and Training
In many of the new and growing jobs, higher skill requirements can best be met by providing workers with more extensive and affordable post-secondary education opportunities.
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We're Unprepared to Handle a Congressional COVID Crisis
While the 25th Amendment to the Constitution deals with the transfer of power in the event of the president’s incapacitation, no such mechanism exists for members of Congress.
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No, We're Not at 'War.' the Dangers of How We Talk About the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The language of war can be used to bring a nation together in common cause—but when it comes to dealing with a pandemic, all these efforts are necessary.
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Viral Inequality
Far from merely reflecting an unequal distribution of economic means, rising inequality comes with a range of toxic side effects, many of which the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief.
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A New Shared Mobility for Changing City Needs
Samuel Kling analyzes the new challenges shared mobility (such as app-based ride-hailing and e-bikes) has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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South Korea's Success in Containing the Coronavirus Highlights Importance of Digital Resilience
One of the emerging lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is that countries and companies that digitised early are more likely to recover faster than those that did not
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Global Food Prices Stay Near Record
Ertharin Cousin joins Kriti Gupta on Bloomberg Markets to discuss global food inflation and Covid resilience.
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Pandemics Are Also an Urban Planning Problem
Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.
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Most Americans want more global engagement
Rather than moving to cut ties with the rest of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, majorities of Americans continue to prefer active U.S. engagement and shared leadership in world affairs.
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How Joe Biden Can Restore America’s Standing Abroad
Before the United States can reliably rebuild its international power and influence, it must heal itself by getting COVID under control, reviving economic prosperity, and moving beyond the bitterly divided politics of the Trump presidency.
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Imperiled Higher Education Institutions Key to State's Future
The Midwest's colleges and universities are central to community economic renewal and COVID-19 recovery, a revival put at risk by recent fiscal, demographic and short-sighted public policy headwinds.
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The Pandemic Has Triggered Dramatic Shifts in the Global Criminal Underworld
Drug cartels are facing broken supply chains, shrinking revenues, and shifting markets. Rising violence is just one effect.
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How Chicago Can Avoid the Looming Global Traffic Crisis
As city leaders move beyond coping with the COVID-19 crisis to imagining the future, how to move—literally—poses a challenge.
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'Wartime' Leadership? Donald Trump Is No FDR
Among the most preposterous of delusions from our delusional president is that he is qualified to lead the country in the "war" against COVID-19. Could we imagine a contrast more ludicrous than that between the recycled reality-TV host and Frankl
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Biden Says America Is Back at the Table. Is It?
Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford explains how it will take more than mere words to create the multilateral responses the world needs to climate change, COVID-19, and the global crises yet to come.