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The COVID-19 Crisis

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    How to Protect the World from the Next Pandemic

    Winnie Byanyima & Joseph E. Stiglitz envision a global accord that applies the lessons of past health crises and includes binding commitments.
  2. acemoglu30_ Jan HetfleischGetty Images_vaccine Jan Hetfleisch/Getty Images

    Preparing Now for the Next Disease X

    Tom Achoki, et al. propose several steps governments can take to establish robust and resilient response mechanisms.
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    The Economics of Health for All

    Mariana Mazzucato explains why pandemic prevention and preparedness must be embedded in economic policymaking.
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    Getting the Pandemic Treaty Across the Finish Line

    Gordon Brown hopes negotiations will conclude this month, and pushes back on a last-minute wave of misinformation.
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    The Pandemic Financing Developing Countries Need

    Rachel Glennerster urges multilateral development banks to establish mechanisms that enable at-risk vaccine purchases.
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    How to Save the Pandemic Treaty

    Mariana Mazzucato explains what it will take to prevent or minimize the costs of future contagious outbreaks like COVID-19.
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    Open Letter

    Delivering the Pandemic Accord the World Needs

    Helen Clark, et al. urge global leaders to reach an agreement on prevention, preparedness, and response by May.
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    Empowering the Pandemic Accord

    Gordon Brown warns that lies could undermine efforts to create a global pact for fighting infectious-disease outbreaks.
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    What the EU Has Done for Us

    Nadia Calviño urges voters in this week’s elections not to take their greatest shared institution for granted.
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    American Business Will Regret Writing Off Democracy

    Katharina Pistor explains why endorsing Donald Trump is a bad bet for today’s titans of the US economy.
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    The High Cost of GPT-4o

    Angela Huyue Zhang & S. Alex Yang warn that OpenAI's new multimodal AI tool is designed to gobble up user data, much of which is copyrighted.
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    The End of the ANC’s Single-Party Rule

    Adekeye Adebajo reflects on the causes and consequences of South Africa’s stunning election result.
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    During This Super Election Year, More Women Are Needed at the Top

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf & Binaifer Nowrojee

    With gender equality lagging behind the other Sustainable Development Goals, increasing the number of women elected to political leadership roles is crucial. But to make meaningful, lasting progress, governments and philanthropies must invest in empowering more women to seek these positions.

    call attention to a disturbing reversal of progress toward gender equality in politics and government.
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    Rough Justice for Trump

    Eric Posner thinks the Manhattan jury’s guilty verdict is the best that can be hoped for, under the circumstances.
  7. haldar34_Alex WongGetty Images_imfworldbank Alex Wong/Getty Images

    Still Haunted by the Washington Consensus

    Antara Haldar thinks the old one-size-fits-all model is still causing problems, despite having been discredited.
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    The Right Way to Regulate AI

    Joshua Gans argues that the key is to identify and reverse the technology’s unwelcome consequences soon after they appear.
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    Restoring Africa’s Culture and Philosophy Is the Key to Development

    Hippolyte Fofack shows how the lack of a collective consciousness has reduced most governments to managing crisis after crisis.

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