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Analysis

Huge challenge to lock down 1.3b people in a democracy

It’s something that has never been tried before: 1.3 billion people — a fifth of the globe’s population — locked down in one place for 21 straight days.

21 hours ago

Americans are experiencing what it’s like in Cuba, Venezuela without the novel coronavirus

On a recent group chat, one of my teacher daughters working remotely in north Florida texts: “This makes me so sad. I talked to a parent today who said she spent the morning running around town looking for meat and toilet paper.”

21 hours ago

US has to take decisive decision on inmates

In just a few short weeks, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the vulnerability we share as a society. We’ve adopted drastic measures to attempt to prevent a tidal wave of sickness and death.

29 Mar 2020

The nation was clapping for our carers. As soon as I started making a noise myself, I promptly burst into tears

Here we are staring down the barrel of our second week on lockdown. I don’t know about you but thus far, I’m nothing but a big old bag of emotions. I only realised the emotional toll this new, weird, distanced way of life was having on me on Thursday night.

29 Mar 2020

Despite virus, no change in Israel’s stand on Palestinians

Coronavirus has given Zionism a victory over democracy in the battle for Israel’s identity. The election of opposition Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz as interim speaker of parliament has led to cabinet formation negotiations with arch Zionist Binyamin Netanyahu.

29 Mar 2020

Cooperation is the key to fighting a pandemic

Governments across the world have responded in radically different ways to the COVID-19 crisis. Some are denying its seriousness. Some are blaming others. More and more are enacting restrictions on personal freedoms that are without precedent in peacetime. To defeat the virus, governments need to take a strictly evidence-based approach in order to learn rapidly from all countries’ experience. That will require cooperation and coordination.

28 Mar 2020

The coronavirus is brutal, but egalitarian

The impact of any one economy on the global system was attributed to France or Britain in the 19th century and the United States in the 20th.It assumed an Asian tone in the 21stcentury with the “If China sneezes, the world catches a cold” reference!

27 Mar 2020

Social distancing accidentally did the hard part for the climate crisis and now it’s up to us to keep going

Social distancing is totally at odds with human behaviour and the construction of global capitalism. Our entire world is on pause, and yet there are still not enough TV series and podcasts in existence to entertain us.

27 Mar 2020

US indictment of Maduro carries echoes of Noriega

In January of 1990, a once powerful Latin American leader stood before a Miami judge to face charges that he’d taken $4.6 million in bribes in exchange for allowing his nation to become a hub for Colombian cocaine cartels.

27 Mar 2020