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Voters queue up for elections in Central African Republic.

Opinion

Central Africans Should Not Be Denied Right to Vote Based on Their Faith

2020/08/14

The Central African Republic's government must provide support to register displaced persons and remove barriers for participation in elections based...

Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko arrives to vote at a polling station during the presidential election in Minsk on August 9, 2020

Opinion

Potentially Rigged Elections in Belarus: What Did You Expect?

by Alex Hillman

2020/08/11

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It is hardly surprising that Belarus' incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko “won” his sixth term in a landslide victory,

A casket is delivered to a funeral home in Brooklyn on April 23, 2020.

Opinion

COVID-19 and Trump’s Silence: An Obituary for America’s Warriors

by Stephen J. Lyons

2020/08/13

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President Donald Trump’s continued silence, denial, and apathy about COVID-19 has resulted in no planned public memorials, national days of...

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres holds a virtual press conference at UN headquarters in New York City, Friday, April 3, 2020

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Pandemic Diplomacy Gets Failing Grades. Could Tele-Diplomacy Help Us Think Afresh?

by Paul Hare

2020/08/07

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Diplomacy needs to be restructured to collaborate constructively and continuously through not just the next pandemic but in any crisis...

Students march during a demonstration marking International Women's Day in Barcelona.

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Why Today’s Feminists Must Build Bridges With Other Social Movements

by Lilia Giugni

2020/08/05

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It is self-defeating to treat human rights as a zero-sum game, where recognizing the grievances of one oppressed group is...

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures during his victory speech at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi

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India and Pakistan’s Divergent Political Paths Are Converging

by Saad Hafiz

2020/08/04

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In pursuit of its grand goal to join the ranks of global superpowers, India should remain mindful of not sacrificing...

Medical workers test a patient for COVID-19 in San Francisco, California on March 12, 2020. Photo: Josh Edelson/AFP.

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The CDC Needs to Be Independent Like the Federal Reserve

by Amitrajeet A. Batabyal

2020/08/04

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Giving the CDC independence of the sort that the Federal Reserve has is not a panacea for managing the COVID-19...

President Trump listens as coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx speaks during a briefing at the White House.

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A Profile in COVID-19 Cowardice: Paging Dr. Birx

by Stephen J. Lyons

2020/07/31

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When historians look back at the spectacular failure of the Trump administration’s response to the worst pandemic in our lifetimes,...

President Donald Trump wearing a mask during a public visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Opinion

Addressing COVID-19: Why Effective Leadership and Depoliticized Responses Matter

by Elizabeth Hume and Conor Seyle

2020/07/29

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Assessments of national capacity to respond to infectious diseases have seriously missed the mark in predicting how the US would...

Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), attends a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on "COVID-19 Response" on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on June 4, 2020.

Opinion

An Unforgiving Virus and the Silent CDC

by Richard P. Wenzel

2020/07/28

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The more the CDC shies away from daily updates to the public, the more such shrinking timidity erodes confidence in...

A woman checks her phone as she shelters under an umbrella in the rain on Oxford Street in London on June 18, 2020, as some non-essential retailers reopen from their coronavirus shutdown.

Opinion

Tech’s Dominant Power Undermines Our Human Right to Privacy

by Michael Kleinman

2020/07/28

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The concentrated power of Big Tech over the digital world is not just an economic question, but one of human...

Opinion

Social Media and Electoral Dynamics: Reversing ‘Incumbency Advantage’ in the US

by Pinar Yildirim, Maria Petrova, and Ananya Sen

2020/07/24

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The most immediate benefit of social media for politicians is that it gives them a “low cost” battleground to compete,...

US President Donald Trump during a press conference.

Opinion

No Thank You, Mr. Trump, We Don’t Need Your Opinion About Everything

by Edward C. Halperin

2020/07/23

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When discussing someone accused of aiding and abetting sex trafficking of minors, Trump chose to 'wish her well' instead of...

US President Donald Trump speaks during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, which causes COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on April 23, 2020, in Washington, DC

Opinion

The Weak Shall Inherit the Worst

by Stephen J. Lyons

2020/07/17

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At this pivotal time, the United States needs a confident, energetic commander in chief. Instead, the country has someone who...

Protestor in Puerto Rico, where the nation angry over corruption and the release of insulting text chats

Opinion

Can’t We Just Sell the World’s Oldest Colony and Solve Puerto Rico’s Political Status?

by Luis Martínez-Fernández

2020/07/16

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The United States will not sell or swap its beleaguered colony Puerto Rico, and its citizens will retain the dubious...

US President Donald Trump speaks as he departs the White House, on May 5, 2020, in Washington, DC en route to Arizona, where he will tour a mask factory and hold a roundtable on Native American issues

Opinion

A Cult of Personality Can Derail Democracy

by Saad Hafiz

2020/07/15

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For democracy to work, supporters must play their part by actively engaging in the political process and not just rely...

Security guards walk past a billboard for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing on May 13, 2017

Opinion

Let China’s Belt and Road Initiative Expand to Accelerate Its Undoing

by Dan Mikhaylov

2020/07/14

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Most analysts interpret Beijing's Belt and Road initiative as the China blueprint to centralize international trade around itself, but this...

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Europe’s East-West Divide: Tolerance With Authoritarian Characteristics

by Zsolt Enyedi

2020/07/14

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Hungary's Orbán sees Europe divided not only by political values but also by primordial regional cultures. And he is happy...

Covid-19 forges unlikely cooperation and solidarity

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Unexpected Impacts: Cooperation and Conflict in Times of COVID-19

by Kimberly Turner and Charmaine Willis

2020/07/10

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With governmental executives infected, delayed trade deals, and the destabilization of international partnerships, COVID-19 has serious implications, but the virus...