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[Kevin Rudd] COVID-19 trumps nationalism

Mar 9, 2020

I was recently walking along East 29th Street in Manhattan, after visiting a friend at Bellevue Hospital, when I was roused from my thoughts by a middle-aged white male screaming at an old Chinese ma...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Coronavirus is human credit crunch

Mar 8, 2020

It is the flow of people, as much as money, that keeps the global economy ticking over. It follows that a sudden halt to the movement of workers, shoppers and tourists should worry us just as much as...
[Gregory A. Maniatis, Monette Zard] COVID-19 blame game threatens us all

Mar 8, 2020

As the new coronavirus, COVID-19, nears pandemic status, a second scourge has followed in its path: a virulent racism that scapegoats refugees, asylum-seekers and foreigners more generally as the cau...
[Digital Simplicity] Working from home brings its own challenges

Mar 6, 2020

As the novel coronavirus spreads, a growing number of office workers in South Korea and elsewhere are being pushed out of their cozy cubicles and forced to work remotely. However, if you’re working r...
[Andy Mukherjee] Hong Kong’s helicopter money struggles for lift

Mar 5, 2020

If you’re raining cash on people and want them to spend it, you have to convince them that the benevolence is being financed by printing money. Nobody wants to worry about being taxed more in the fut...
[Faye Flam] How to prepare (rationally) for coronavirus

Mar 5, 2020

About a month ago, I prepared for COVID-19, then just known as the coronavirus, by refilling some essential heart medications I was worried might run out if there were serious supply chain disruption...
[Anjani Trivedi] We need to prepare for pandemics. They’ll keep coming

Mar 4, 2020

When it comes to infectious disease outbreaks, we just haven’t learned. It’s not as if we weren’t warned. Last year, a report by the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board, a body put together by the ...
[Ferdinando Giugliano] Italy shows how to tackle coronavirus impact

Mar 4, 2020

The Italian government has announced a stimulus package of 3.6 billion euros ($4 billion) to help the economy cope with the Coronavirus outbreak. The response appears timely and proportionate. Rome c...
[Eli Lake] Why Taliban is hailing US peace plan

Mar 3, 2020

On the eve of the ceremony to sign an agreement with the US to begin peace negotiations, the Taliban declared it had already won. “This is a day of victory,” said Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanekzai, a Tal...
[Kim Seong-kon] Between Seoul and Granada: Memories of Alhambra

Mar 3, 2020

Ostensibly, the Alhambra Palace does not seem to have anything to do with the “fourth industrial revolution.” The former is a famous 13th century Moorish palace located in Granada, Spain and the latt...
[Ferdinando Giugliano] Europe’s coronavirus plan is not enough

Mar 2, 2020

The economic damage from the coronavirus epidemic has prompted calls for Europe to relax its fiscal rules to allow governments to cut taxes and increase spending. The European Commission seems to agr...
[Letter to Editor] Redefining DMZ as contact zone of hope

Mar 2, 2020

On cold winter evenings, I watched drama series “Crash Landing on You.” Although this romance drama has been assessed by some critics as a pure fantasy, it has achieved great success by vividly featu...
[David Fickling] What the virus end game will look like

Mar 1, 2020

Pandemics come and pandemics go. In the grip of a new infection spreading around a planet with no natural immunity, it can feel like the sky is falling. Over the coming months, it’s likely that a si...
[Noah Feldman] Coronavirus has come to the US and lawsuits won’t be far behind

Mar 1, 2020

The coronavirus called COVID-19 has spread beyond its origin in Wuhan, China, and has arrived on U.S. shores. I’m a law professor, not an epidemiologist, so my thoughts immediately turned to how the ...
[David Fickling] Coronavirus complacency is worse than panic

Feb 27, 2020

Don’t think about a white bear. What did you just see in your mind’s eye? If the answer was “a white bear,” you’ll have grasped one of the problems facing public health officials in talking about th...