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(Pandemic) Closing the COVID Trust Deficit (Project-Syndicate)

PASCALINE DUPAS, JOSEPH DOYLE, KAREN MACOURS Economists have developed an emerging body of evidence that holds important lessons for overcoming COVID-19 information constraints, combating misinformation, and building...

(USA/Economic Sanctions/Environment) Economic sanctions are damaging the environment (Al Jazeera)

Barney Bartlett, Shirin Hakim President Joe Biden has been elected on a promise, among others, to move the United States towards an ambitious new climate...

(UK/British Left) There is still hope for the British left (Al Jazeera)

Tony Greenstein It seems that a relentlessly pessimistic view of the past five years has settled among much of the left in the UK after...

(Hong Kong/Freedom of the Press) In Hong Kong, freedom of expression is shrinking fast (Al Jazeera)

Yuen Chan In 2018, the late chef, traveller and television personality, Anthony Bourdain, made a programme about Hong Kong in which he interviewed members of...

(Global Risk/Israel) The Global Risk Map and Implications for Israel (INSS)

Tomer Fadlon, Shmuel Even, Carmit Padan, Meir Elran The coronavirus crisis has raised public awareness of natural hazards and pushed them to the top of the global risk...

(USA/Russia) More Coherence, Greater Tension: Prospects for US Policy toward Russia under Biden (INSS)

Ari Heistein Under President Trump, the United States did not have a coherent and unified Russia policy. Congress maintained a traditional approach of using sanctions...

(Palestine) Is the Phrase “State of Palestine” Catching On? (BESA Center)

Prof. Hillel Frisch In 2013, Mahmoud Abbas proclaimed that henceforth the Palestinian Authority would be called the “State of Palestine.” It is worth noting how...

(Israel/Pandemic) Fighting COVID-19 vs. Upholding Civil Rights (BESA Center)

Col (Res.) Dr. Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen A Pavlovian resistance to government measures put in place to lower the COVID-19 infection rate in Israel is reaching...

(USA/Economics/Climate Change) Getting the Social Cost of Carbon Right (Project-Syndicate)

NICHOLAS STERN, JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ US President Joe Biden's administration must put a high enough price on carbon pollution to encourage the scale and urgency of...

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