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Urban Governance: Cities in a Time of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is exposing the quality of governance and competence of the world’s leaders. When politicians and civil servants fail to deliver, they quickly lose credibility and legitimacy.
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Changing the Rules of International Relations - Paul Poast on COVID-19
Paul Poast discusses how COVID-19 will change the global economy, US-China relations and the World Health Organization.
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How Cities Around the World Are Handling COVID-19
It is not just cities, but also their local and global supply chains, travel networks, airports and specific neighborhoods that are sources of contagion.
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South Korea's Success in Containing the Coronavirus Highlights Importance of Digital Resilience
One of the emerging lessons of the Covid-19 pandemic is that countries and companies that digitised early are more likely to recover faster than those that did not
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Viral Inequality
Far from merely reflecting an unequal distribution of economic means, rising inequality comes with a range of toxic side effects, many of which the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown into sharp relief.
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Biden Must Remove Barriers to Engagement with North Korea
"To change the trajectory of the relationship between North Korea and the US, it is critical that Americans pursue principled engagement," writes Matt Abbott in NK News.
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A New Shared Mobility for Changing City Needs
Samuel Kling analyzes the new challenges shared mobility (such as app-based ride-hailing and e-bikes) has faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Imperiled Higher Education Institutions Key to State's Future
The Midwest's colleges and universities are central to community economic renewal and COVID-19 recovery, a revival put at risk by recent fiscal, demographic and short-sighted public policy headwinds.
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Omicron Proves World Fails to Face Global Threats with Global Solutions
“The biggest cost of the nationalist reaction [to omicron] is its damage to future global cooperation,” writes Elizabeth Shackelford in the Chicago Tribune.
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India's COVID-19 Crisis Pushes the US to Get Vaccine Diplomacy Right
“Viruses don't respect borders and neither do their knock-on effects,” Elizabeth Shackelford writes in the Chicago Tribune. “An uncontrolled outbreak in a country of 1.4 billion people is a crisis for all.”
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'Wartime' Leadership? Donald Trump Is No FDR
Among the most preposterous of delusions from our delusional president is that he is qualified to lead the country in the "war" against COVID-19. Could we imagine a contrast more ludicrous than that between the recycled reality-TV host and Frankl
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How Chicago Can Avoid the Looming Global Traffic Crisis
As city leaders move beyond coping with the COVID-19 crisis to imagining the future, how to move—literally—poses a challenge.
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No, We're Not at 'War.' the Dangers of How We Talk About the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The language of war can be used to bring a nation together in common cause—but when it comes to dealing with a pandemic, all these efforts are necessary.
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While US Plays Blame Game in Coronavirus Crisis, China Shows Leadership
Ignoring its responsibility for starting the pandemic, Beijing has trumpeted its response as a model for others to follow.
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Biden Says America Is Back at the Table. Is It?
Senior Fellow Elizabeth Shackelford explains how it will take more than mere words to create the multilateral responses the world needs to climate change, COVID-19, and the global crises yet to come.
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Most Americans want more global engagement
Rather than moving to cut ties with the rest of the world during the COVID-19 pandemic, majorities of Americans continue to prefer active U.S. engagement and shared leadership in world affairs.
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The Post-Pandemic Urban Future Is Already Here
The coronavirus crisis stands to dramatically reshape cities around the world. But the biggest revolutions in urban space may have begun before the pandemic.
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Pandemics Are Also an Urban Planning Problem
Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.
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On COVID-19, Foreign Policy Elites are Just as Polarized as the Public
New survey results suggest that President-elect Biden will have to work hard to cultivate bipartisan buy-in for efforts to rein in the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
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The Best Medicine for a COVID-19 Economy? More Education and Training
In many of the new and growing jobs, higher skill requirements can best be met by providing workers with more extensive and affordable post-secondary education opportunities.