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James Hooper

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James Hooper is a managing director of The Public International Law and Policy Group.

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  3. stanley3_SERGIO LIMAAFP via Getty Images_bolsonaro covid protest Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images

    A COVID Genocide in the Americas?

    Federico Finchelstein & Jason Stanley

    Just as political leaders like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro have forced a reckoning about the historical persistence of fascist politics, so have their disastrous responses to the COVID-19 pandemic renewed the relevance of the concept of genocide. How else are we to come to grips with so many culpably avoidable deaths?

     call for a debate on the historical and moral implications of the Brazilian and US pandemic responses.
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    Merkel Minus Angela

    Josef Joffe

    Armin Laschet's surprise victory in the CDU leadership contest makes him the front-runner to become Germany's next chancellor, but it doesn't guarantee him the job. Laschet will need to defeat Markus Söder, the ambitious and politically flexible leader of the CDU's Bavarian sister party. 

     appraises Armin Laschet, who is now the odds-on favorite to become the country's next chancellor.
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