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The COVID-19 Crisis

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    Saved by the Pandemic?

    Scott Fulford explains why its successful COVID-19 stimulus could help the US forge a path to financial stability for all.
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    How Much Work Is Enough?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Autumn McDonald explain how the pandemic raised new questions – and some very old ones – for employers and employees.
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    Remembering the Pandemic

    William A. Haseltine explains why future preparedness requires commemorating the millions of lives claimed by COVID-19.
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    Best Practices for Calamity-Ready Governments

    Ngaire Woods highlights several steps that cash-strapped countries can take to enhance crisis preparedness.
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    What Will It Take to Prevent Future Pandemics?

    William A. Haseltine calls for new detection and surveillance methods focusing on the four essential properties of zoonosis.
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    Getting Drug Development Right

    Mariana Mazzucato shows how the health-innovation process could be reconceived to serve the common good.
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    A Path Out of the Pandemic

    William A. Haseltine calls for more resources to develop antiviral therapies to stay ahead of future coronavirus mutations.
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    Decolonizing Global Health Leadership

    Ifeanyi M. Nsofor applauds Muhammad Ali Pate’s appointment as CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance.
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    The Ukraine-Russia Culture War

    Yuriy Gorodnichenko & Ilona Sologoub survey the heated battles that have been playing out far from the physical battlefield.
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    The Poverty of AI Pessimism

    Jim O'Neill questions the increasingly popular sentiment that the technology will be economically destabilizing.
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    The Post-American Middle East

    Mark Leonard explains how the region became a laboratory for a future in which the US is not the sole hegemon.
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    How to Think About Climate-Tech Solutions

    Gernot Wagner offers lessons for navigating a field that is fraught with hype, unintended consequences, and other pitfalls.
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    Can the ECB Escape Its Own Trap?

    Otmar Issing examines the policy dilemma facing central banks as they try to shrink their bloated balance sheets.
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    The Democrats’ Disastrous Debt Deal

    James K. Galbraith decries the party’s willingness to play along with the Republicans’ bad-faith politicking.
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    Building a Biotech Alliance of Democracies

    Jafer Ahmad & Abigail Kukura explains how the US and its allies and partners can maintain leadership in a strategically vital sector.
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    The Transatlantic Carbon-Pricing Clash

    Daniel Gros predicts that the opposing approaches taken by the US and the EU will lead to trade and political frictions.
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    The Geopolitics of Nature

    Simon Zadek highlights the fatal flaw in green “solutions” like the EU’s new deforestation legislation.

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