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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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    Rebuilding Trust in Science

    Nicholas B. Dirks recommends ways to improve the public’s understanding and sense of involvement in scientific progress.
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    Breathing Life Back into COVID Prevention

    William A. Haseltine calls attention to an effective but widely neglected pathogen-control strategy.
  6. buruma195_Kevin FrayerGetty Images_xijinping Kevin Frayer/Getty Images
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    China’s Autocracy in Crisis

    Ian Buruma explains why the country’s political system, not COVID-19, is responsible for its pandemic-related distress.
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    China’s Brutal COVID Winter

    Nancy Qian identifies the social and economic factors that are hampering basic infection-control efforts.
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    COVID and the Chinese Social Contract

    Joschka Fischer reflects on the broader political lessons from the country's ill-fated pandemic policy.
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    What China’s Zero-COVID Drama Foreshadows

    Nancy Qian thinks the recent protests – and the government's response – point to a broader political challenge.
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    The Other Conflict on Europe’s Doorstep

    Anders Fogh Rasmussen warns that Azerbaijan may be preparing to renew its military aggression against neighboring Armenia.
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    Let the Banks Burn

    Yanis Varoufakis

    The banking system we take for granted is unfixable. The good news is that we no longer need to rely on any private, rent-seeking, socially destabilizing network of banks, at least not the way we have so far.

     shows why the current private system is unfixable – and why we don’t need to tolerate it anymore.
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    How China Benefits from Another US Banking Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach thinks America’s latest financial trouble will reinforce a narrative of terminal national decline.
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    Xi Jinping’s Chinese Tragedy

    Orville Schell interviewed by Irena Grudzińska Gross

    Like Vladimir Putin, China's leader is so steeped in a narrative of victimhood and fearful of appearing weak that it is hard to imagine him ever leading China out of the mess he has created. He could well be remembered as the leader who squandered history's most remarkable economic success story.

     about the country's increasingly worrisome trajectory, both at home and abroad.
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    Artificial Idiocy

    Slavoj Žižek fears that the rise of powerful chatbots will spell the death of irony and nuance in human thought.
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    Localizing Development Research

    Julia Kaufman & Jane Wanjiku Mariara explain why funders should be providing more long-term resources to researchers in developing countries.
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    The Simplest Fix for Banking

    Jan Eeckhout explains how central bank digital currencies would end bank runs and banks' excessive risk-taking.
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    America’s Interest in Ending the Ukraine Crisis

    Brahma Chellaney explains why prolonging the conflict risks realizing the West’s worst geopolitical nightmare.
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    America’s Industrial Policy Is Counterproductive

    Anne O. Krueger laments that the Biden administration is adding red tape to an inefficient subsidy program.

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