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Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker

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Steven Pinker is a professor of psychology at Harvard University and is the author of Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress.

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  5. berkley9_JEAN-PHILIPPE KSIAZEKAFP via Getty Images_coronavirusvaccinevials Jean-Philippe Ksiazek/AFP via Getty Images

    The Fastest Way Out of the Pandemic

    Seth Berkley, et al.

    During the 2009 swine flu pandemic, a few countries cornered the vaccine market, leaving the vast majority of the global population with no vaccine at all until the outbreak was effectively over. This scenario must be avoided at all costs during the current crisis – and, thanks to the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility, it can be.

     argue that the COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility is the key to overcoming the coronavirus.
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    G20, Heal Thyself

    Jeffrey D. Sachs

    As the world’s largest economies, the G20’s members have one overriding responsibility at their finance ministers' upcoming meeting: to agree on actions to suppress the pandemic. Ensuring effective public-health measures is today’s essential economic policy.

     urges the finance ministers meeting this week to focus on policies needed to suppress the pandemic.
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    NATO Is Dying

    Ana Palacio views the recent naval row between France and Turkey as yet another harbinger of the Alliance's doom.
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