We will always play catch-up with these wily viruses if we continue our all-out war on the environment.
The Next Pandemic
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Asia & Pacific
The Coronavirus Comes for India
India’s far-right government is focused more on PR than prevention. Brave independent reporters are calling it to account.
Fighting Covid-19 — And Repression — in Kashmir
The Indian government’s repression of doctors and restrictions on the Internet could make the pandemic far deadlier in the formerly autonomous region.
Martin Khor: The Making of a Global Activist
The late Martin Khor united activists, officials, and thought leaders against trade and climate policies that plundered the Global South. Here’s how his comrades remember him.
International Solidarity in a Time of Crisis
While political leaders scapegoat, overreach, and underperform, progressive organizers are developing an internationalist response to the coronavirus pandemic.
We Need a Coronavirus Truce
International cooperation needs to take priority right now, and countries must stop their wars against one another and against their own populations.
The Coronavirus and China-U.S. Relations
The two countries have a golden opportunity to bridge their divide and fight a common enemy.
Can Coronavirus Be a Catalyst for Thinking Globally?
In an age of pandemics and climate crisis, countries’ health, environmental, and development policies are globally important.
Coronavirus and the Death of ‘Connectivity’
The Great Recession could have killed globalization, but China emerged as the champion of a new global “connectivity.” With the coronavirus, that phase is finished.
What the Coronavirus Says about Us
Trump’s message to governors on lifesaving medical equipment — “get it yourselves” — is grimly appropriate in a country without national health care.