What Really Threatens Covid-19 Vaccinations For All

A sustainable approach to the Covid-19 pandemic could produce better health systems: We need to pay more attention to the last mile hurdle.

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Putin, the Master Strategist? Is 2021 Our 1914?

Why the strategic situation in Europe today, occasioned by the standoff at the Polish-Belarus border, resembles 1914 more than that of the Cold War.

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F.W. de Klerk: Rising to a Shakespearean Challenge

Reflections on the life of the late South African President.

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COP26, Glasgow — and Curry!

A recipe for a simple store-cupboard curry

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When Mob Rule Comes to the United States of America

The parallels between the Leninist power usurpation in early 20th century Russia and the Trumpian brigades in today’s United States are becoming ever more eerie.

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Biden Vs. Xi: The Global Battle for Restoring Domestic Economic Balance

How the fight against inequality at home unites — and separates — Biden and Xi Jinping. And who seems to have the upper hand.

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After Brexit: How Poland Replaces the UK

The EU-related obstinacy of Poland’s governing party is rooted not just in the desire to rewrite their own country’s post-war history, or even Europe’s. It is all a big-time deflection maneuver.

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Confronting the Kleptocrats? Contain Their Western(!) Financial Managers

The governments participating in the November 2021 Biden Summit should hit the authoritarians where it hurts them the most – in their wallets.

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Experiencing the Alaskan Wilderness Through Soundscapes

We usually experience a new place through the sense of sight and taste. Sound, however, is often ignored.

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Dismantling Global Hindutava

The extremes of the political spectrum are crushing the political center and breeding radicalism

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