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Minxin Pei & Elmira Bayrasli
discuss where China’s crackdown in Hong Kong will lead, and how it will affect the legitimacy of the Communist Party of China.
Opinion Has ItJun 16, 2020Minxin Pei & Elmira Bayrasli
discuss where China’s crackdown in Hong Kong will lead, and how it will affect the legitimacy of the Communist Party of China.
Opinion Has ItJun 4, 2020Khalil Gibran Muhammad & Elmira Bayrasli
discuss the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man, and its aftermath.
Opinion Has ItMay 5, 2020Michael Ignatieff & Elmira Bayrasli
discuss the emergence of authoritarian tendencies as countries race to combat the coronavirus.
Opinion Has ItMar 31, 2020Frank Snowden & Elmira Bayrasli
discuss how global health crises have restructured societies in the past, and what lessons we can take from them in dealing with COVID-19.
Opinion Has ItMar 3, 2020Joseph E. Stiglitz, et al.
take a hard look at widening inequality in the United States, and ask which policy proposals advanced by the 2020 Democratic candidates best address it.
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After four decades of sacrificing state capacity on the altar of the market, Western countries are facing another large-scale crisis that has revealed the flaws of that approach. The question now is whether the old orthodoxy will finally be replaced.
By forcing much of the world to go online, the COVID-19 crisis has rapidly broadened the global technology debate beyond questions of surveillance and privacy. The digital policies that governments adopt today will increasingly shape how we work, learn, and entertain ourselves – and how we manage future crises.
