
How Might COVID-19 Change the World?
Dec 29, 2020 sees reason to hope that the pandemic will galvanize support for combating other global problems.
Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and other international bestsellers.
Dec 29, 2020 sees reason to hope that the pandemic will galvanize support for combating other global problems.
After a gradual decade-long democratization process, Myanmar’s military seized power again in February and is waging a ruthless crackdown against unarmed civilian protesters. A major escalation of the ongoing turmoil – civil war is a growing possibility – would have implications far beyond the country’s borders.