The Global Response to the Coronavirus

Only an Independent Coalition of Scientists Can Reach a Definitive Answer 

By Thomas J. Bollyky and Yanzhong Huang

Race, Partisanship, and Fake News at the Dawn of the Republic

By Stephen Fried

Why America Should Make Its Supply Chain More Transparent

By Thomas J. Bollyky and Chad P. Bown

The Lessons of Pakistan’s Inoculation Strategy

By Manish Sreevatsava

A Strategy for the Long Fight Against COVID-19

By Larry Brilliant, Lisa Danzig, Karen Oppenheimer, Agastya Mondal, Rick Bright, and W. Ian Lipkin

To End the Pandemic, Rich Countries Must Pay to Vaccinate Poor Ones

By Rajiv J. Shah

The Staggering Cost of an Unscientific Response to the Pandemic

By Ramanan Laxminarayan

Rather than Dictate to the World, Washington Should Listen and Share Power

By Jonathan Cohen

The Pandemic, School Closures, and the Rise of Inequality

By Emiliana Vegas

Hypervigilance Beats Preparation for Unpredictable Crises 

By Niall Ferguson

Outbreaks Anywhere Threaten Recovery Everywhere

By Ro Khanna

Intellectual Property Is Just One Piece of an Elaborate Process

By Peter J. Hotez, Maria Elena Bottazzi, and Prashant Yadav

How mRNA Can Stop the Next Pandemic Before It Starts

By Nicole Lurie, Jakob P. Cramer, and Richard J. Hatchett

Indians Pay the Price of Government Inaction as COVID-19 Surges

By Mandakini Gahlot

America’s Pandemic Decisions Aren’t for Itself Alone

By Thomas J. Bollyky, Jennifer Nuzzo, and Joshua Sharfstein

The World After COVID-19 Could Be as Good as or Better Than the One Before

By Charles Kenny

Coronavirus “Vaccine Wars” Could Herald a Broader Retreat From the Free Market

By Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman

And About the Vulnerabilities of the System Protecting Global Health

By Yanzhong Huang

Bad Politics Can Undermine Good Public Health 

By Christopher T. Lee and Tom Frieden

The Case for an All-Out Global Approach to Ending the Pandemic

By Helene Gayle, Gordon LaForge, and Anne-Marie Slaughter

The United States Should Lead a New Push Against Bioweapons

By Nathan Levine and Chris Li

Beijing Hasn’t Won the Soft-Power Stakes, but It Has an Early Lead

By Yanzhong Huang

The Case for Sharing Supplies Prior to Reaching Herd Immunity

By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Cécile Fabre, Daniel Halliday, R. J. Leland, Allen Buchanan, Kok-Chor Tan, and Shuk Ying Chan 

COVID-19 Variants and the Peril of Vaccine Inequity

By Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker

Beijing Is Undermining Confidence in a Vaccine the World Desperately Needs

By Eyck Freymann and Justin Stebbing

America Needs a Global Health Policy for the Pandemic Age

By Ashish Jha

Let Vaccine Producers in Poor Countries Help End the Pandemic

By Tahir Amin

Politics and Security Fears Crippled the Collective Response

By Yanzhong Huang

For Poor Countries, What Comes Next Could Be Worse

By Tarek Ghani

Vaccine Logistics Get the Better of Macron

By Robert Zaretsky

The Greater Good Depends on Ending the Pandemic Everywhere

By Lawrence O. Gostin, Eric A. Friedman, and Suerie Moon

How to Counter the Pandemic’s Gender-Regressive Shock

By Jamille Bigio, Kweilin Ellingrud, Mekala Krishnan, Anu Madgavkar, and Rachel Vogelstein

After 100 Years, Public Health Controls Are Under Attack

By John Fabian Witt and Kiki Manzur

A Global Problem Calls for Collective Action

By Thomas J. Bollyky and Chad P. Bown

The Toll of Inequality in the Age of COVID-19

By Luis Alberto Moreno

A Better Approach to Global Health Security

By Jennifer Nuzzo

A Viable Immunization Is Good News, but Realities Won’t Match Expectations for Many Months

By Josh Michaud and Jen Kates

The United States Has Much to Learn From Grassroots Action Abroad

By Jonathan Cohen

What It Will Take to Build Back a Better Economy

By Jason Furman

COVID-19 Could Linger for Years—Just as Influenza Did a Century Ago

By Tara C. Smith

How an Epidemic Revealed the Gulf Between Britain and the United States

By David Rosner

What Literature Tells Us About Pandemics

By Arnold Weinstein

How Beijing Positioned Itself as the Savior of the Developing World

By Eyck Freymann and Justin Stebbing

Food Insecurity Could Be a Long Lasting Side Effect of COVID-19

By Sara Bleich and Sheila Fleischhacker

The Election Will Decide How the United States Reaches Herd Immunity—Through Immunization or Mass Infection

By Angela Rasmussen

Without Government Support, Communities Take Charge of Their Own Care

By Richard Sennett

Governments Have to Earn It

By Thomas J. Bollyky, Sawyer Crosby, and Samantha Kiernan

How the Pandemic Made a Fringe Idea Go Mainstream

By Evelyn L. Forget

Getting the Recovery Right

By Mariana Mazzucato

How Federalism Both Saved and Doomed the United States

By Ashish Jha

What SARS Taught Governments About Fighting Infectious Disease

By Swee Kheng Khor and David Heymann

The Only Way to Slow the Coronavirus Until the Arrival of a Vaccine

By Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker

American Power in the Age of Fragility

By Ganesh Sitaraman

New Delhi Counts the Costs of Getting the Epidemiology Wrong

By T. Jacob John

Lessons From the World’s Hardest-Hit Region 

By Diana Enriquez, Sebastián Rojas Cabal, and Miguel A. Centeno

Why the United States Has Failed So Spectacularly to Control COVID-19

By Joshua M. Sharfstein and Georges C. Benjamin

The Pandemic Rouses a Sleeping Giant

By Max Bergmann

Weak Labor Protections Make the United States More Vulnerable to COVID-19

By Jacob Leibenluft

For Saudi Arabia and Egypt, a Pretext to Crack Down

By Geneive Abdo and Nourhan Elnahla 

Foreign Affairs Asks the Experts

After Lockdowns, Demagogues Will Likely Resurge

By Nadia Urbinati 

The Global Economy Will Never Be the Same 

By Carmen Reinhart and Vincent Reinhart 

MBS Must Cut His Losses to Avert Catastrophe

By F. Gregory Gause III 

Only Cooperation Can End the Pandemic

By Thomas J. Bollyky and Chad P. Bown 

A New Destination for Workers and Students Who Once Went West

By Gracia Liu-Farrer 

How to Prepare for the Next Crisis

By Michael H. Fuchs 

The Bold Policy for Not Just Weathering the Crisis, but Coming Out Better

By Pavlina R. Tcherneva 

A French Historian’s Message for Pandemic Times

By Robert Zaretsky

Expertise Is Essential, Now More Than Ever

By Jonathan Holloway 

COVID-19 Is Gender-Blind, But Not Gender-Neutral

By Melinda Gates

The United States Needs an Early Warning System for Infectious Diseases

By Andrew S. Natsios

Why Beijing’s Model Must Not Become the World’s

By Sheena Chestnut Greitens and Julian Gewirtz

Can Local Leaders Restore the Country’s Reputation for Health Leadership?

By Catherine Osborn

Central Banks Should Not Prop Up Foundering Fossil Fuel Firms

By Justin Guay

America Needs the Contagion Equivalent of the National Weather Service

By Caitlin Rivers and Dylan George

Why the End of Lockdown Looks So Different Around the World 

By Josh Michaud and Jen Kates

George Floyd and the Legacy of Colonial Violence

By Nanjala Nyabola

Washington Can Trade Humanitarian Relief for Strategic Concession

By Stuart E. Eizenstat and Thomas R. Pickering

COVID-19 Has Been a Boon for Far-Right Extremists

By Rebecca Ulam Weiner

Is the 9/11 Model the Best Option?

By Kenneth R. Feinberg

Because the United States and China Have Shown They Can’t

By Bruce Jones

COVID-19 and the Economic Value of Protecting Health

By W. Kip Viscusi

Coronavirus Threatens to Push Millions Into Starvation

By David M. Beasley

The Coronavirus Is Emboldening Autocrats the World Over

By Larry Diamond

It Takes a State

By Francis Fukuyama

How Federalism Can Protect Democracy From Pandemics

By Danielle Allen

COVID-19 and the Costs of Global Dysfunction

By Stewart Patrick

Developing Countries Won’t Find a One-Size-Fits-All Solution to Coronavirus

By Robert Malley and Richard Malley

An Insular Political Culture Failed the Test of the Pandemic

By Jeremy Konyndyk

Pandemics Don’t Bring People Together—Sometimes, They Pull Societies Apart

By Rachel Brown, Heather Hurlburt, and Alexandra Stark

Crisis at Home Makes the United States Vulnerable Abroad

By Richard Haass

Immediate Withdrawal Would Be a Global Health and a Legal Disaster

By Harold Hongju Koh and Lawrence O. Gostin

A Relief Plan for Emerging Markets

By Patrick Bolton, Lee Buchheit, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Mitu Gulati, Chang-Tai Hsieh, Ugo Panizza, and Beatrice Weder di Mauro

The Pandemic Is Compounding Disparities in Income, Wealth, and Opportunity

By Mohamed A. El-Erian and Michael Spence

Urban Planners Should Embrace—Not Fear—Density 

By Jennifer Keesmaat

What Is Different About the Coronavirus Pandemic?

By Walter Scheidel

Putin Lets Local Leaders Take the Credit and the Fall

By Alexander Baunov

Will the IMF Pass the Pandemic Stress Test?

By Brad W. Setser

Learning From the COVID-19 Failure—Before the Next Outbreak Arrives

By Michael T. Osterholm and Mark Olshaker

For Thucydides, History Was Flux and Humanity Was Constant

By Robert Zaretsky

But Aspects of It Are Worthy of Consideration 

By Josh Michaud

How to Make Sure Patents Don’t Stand in the Way of Global Health

By Jennifer Hillman

And It Is Not Just Developing Countries That Are in Trouble

By Pascale Joassart-Marcelli 

Hasty Border Closures Invite Chaos—and Can Seed New Outbreaks

By Doug Saunders

The United States and China Are Its Crucial Pillars

By Thomas R. Pickering and Atman M. Trivedi

The Right Way to Understand Pandemic Economics

By Rajeev Cherukupalli and Tom Frieden

The Ruling Party Takes Advantage of Lockdown

By Marta Figlerowicz

What a Virus Reveals About Two Systems

By Branko Milanovic

Herd Immunity Is the Only Realistic Option—The Question Is How to Get There Safely

By Nils Karlson, Charlotta Stern, and Daniel B. Klein

Pique Is Not a Policy

By Christopher R. Hill

Cratering Oil Prices and Crumbling Healthcare Threaten Maduro’s Grip on Power

By Ivan Briscoe

That Will Help Them Fight Diseases, Too

By Dan Reiter and Allan C. Stam

Don’t Expect the Clear Skies to Last

By David G. Victor

The Pandemic Bodes Ill for Both American and Chinese Power—and for the Global Order

By Kevin Rudd

COVID-19 Meets Poor Health and Collapsing Hospitals 

By Tara C. Smith

But Exploiting a Pandemic Comes at a Cost

By Ruth Ben-Ghiat

Where Governments Step Away, Outlaws Step Up

By Steven Dudley

It Is Time for an Independent Commission on COVID-19

By John J. Farmer, Jr.

The Pandemic Offers a Struggling India the Chance to Reset

By Anubhav Gupta and Puneet Talwar

Progressive Sentiments Subside as Crises Are Forgotten 

By Lane Kenworthy

No One Will Be Safe Until the Whole World Is Safe

By Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

Policing Is the Wrong Tactic for a Disease That Preys on Inequality

By Natalia Linos and Mary T. Bassett

Hard-Liners Use the Pandemic to Undermine Moderates

By Ariane M. Tabatabai

How to Stop Protectionism From Running Amok

By Chad P. Bown

Obelix and Gaston Lagaffe Take On the Pandemic

By Viken Berberian

Beijing Needs to Help Its Poor Borrowers Through the Pandemic

By Benn Steil and Benjamin Della Rocca

The World Health Organization and Its Member States Must Learn From Their Mistakes 

By Thomas J. Bollyky and David P. Fidler

Why Sickness Slows the March to War

By Barry R. Posen

And U.S.-Iranian Tensions Only Make Matters Worse

By Rozina Ali

The Key to Economic Recovery After COVID-19

By Sven Steinmo and Mark Blyth

Beijing Is Using New Methods to Spin the Pandemic to Its Advantage

By Laura Rosenberger

But Not If Governments Beat Them to the Punch

By Paul J. Angelo

The High Cost of Geographic Political Polarization

By Jonathan Rodden

At a Time of Crisis, the U.S.-European Relationship Can—and Must—Be Saved

By Karen Donfried and Wolfgang Ischinger

The Apps Are Coming, but Policy Needs to Come First

By Mira Rapp-Hooper and Samm Sacks

To Avoid Pandemics, Our Whole Economy Needs to Change

By Sonia Shah

Maximum Pressure and Pandemic Pressure Have Consolidated Their Power

By Sina Toossi

A Real-Life Experiment in Hyper-Keynesianism

By Zachary Karabell

The Kingdom Tallies the Costs of the Pandemic Lockdown

By Krithika Varagur

Few Countries Are Buying the Model or the Message From Beijing

By Michael Green and Evan S. Medeiros

How China Made the Most of the Pandemic It Unleashed

By Yanzhong Huang

But Protecting Rights Requires Constant Vigilance

By Martin Eiermann

The United States May Be Left With Only the Most Invasive of Them

By Victor Cha

Working Across Borders to Solve the Pandemic Where International Institutions Have Failed

By Louise Richardson

A Vast Rural Underclass Is Dragging Down Growth

By Dexter Roberts

Not Every Crisis Is a Turning Point

By Richard Haass

France Confronts Its Priorities in Pandemic Times

By Robert Zaretsky

Democracies Must Offer an Alternative to Authoritarian Solutions

By Nicholas Wright

The Continent Needs to Come Together to Spend Its Way Out of the Crisis

By Erik Jones

Foreign Aid and Global Leadership Will Be Integral to Any Solution

By Philip H. Gordon

Competition, the Coronavirus, and the Weakness of Xi Jinping

By Minxin Pei

A Pandemic and a Price War Have Together Brought Energy Markets to a Crisis

By Daniel Yergin

Collapsing Oil Prices Risk Igniting a Sovereign Debt Crisis

By Amy Myers Jaffe

Stop Strangling Iran While It Fights the Pandemic

By Hadi Kahalzadeh

Redundancy, Not Reshoring, Is the Key to Supply Chain Security

By Shannon K. O'Neil

Developing Countries Are Hurtling Toward Coronavirus Catastrophe

By Robert Malley and Richard Malley

Political Speech Is Harder and Riskier to Police

By Sarah Kreps and Brendan Nyhan

The Real Lessons of the Pandemic Will Be Political

By Thomas J. Bollyky

What Washington Failed to Learn From the National Security Council’s Ebola Report

By Christopher Kirchhoff

The Current One Highlights Its Strengths

By Robert Peckham

Now Is the Time to Inoculate Against the Economic Mutation of COVID-19

By Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

It Will Take Wartime Spirit—and Spending—to Keep the Global Economy Afloat

By Matthew J. Slaughter and Matt Rees

What U.S. Foreign Policy Should Be Doing—but Isn’t—to Rally the World to Action

By Nicholas Burns

A Vulnerable Population Braces for the Pandemic

By Vidya Krishnan

Instead, Their Antagonism Makes Matters Worse

By Yanzhong Huang

Independent Expertise Always Dies First When Democracy Recedes

By Daron Acemoglu

Faced With a New Disease, Many in the Region See an Old Enemy

By Toby Matthiesen

Scientific Cooperation Knows No Boundaries—Fortunately

By Mahlet Mesfin

Taiwan’s Initial Success Is a Model for the Rest of the World

By Jaron Lanier and E. Glen Weyl

As the Global Economy Comes Apart, Societies May, Too

By Branko Milanovic

Tehran Now Needs the Public Trust and Professional Expertise It Has Squandered

By Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

China Is Maneuvering for International Leadership as the United States Falters

By Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi

And the Uncharted Territory Beyond

By Mohamed A. El-Erian

The Pandemic Is Exposing Market Vulnerabilities No One Knew Existed

By Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman

But Trump’s Information Crackdown Can Certainly Make Things Worse

By Amy Lauren Fairchild

With Prevention and a Plan to Share the Costs

By Catherine Machalaba and William B. Karesh

And Undermining Efforts to Contain the Epidemic

By Yanzhong Huang

Washington Should Treat It Like One

By Lisa Monaco

Kim Jong Un Faces His Greatest Test Yet

By Sue Mi Terry

Lessons From a Pandemic’s Ground Zero

By Thomas J. Bollyky and Vin Gupta
 

But Instead of Learning From the Past, Tehran Is Stuck There

By Amir A. Afkhami
 

China Has an App for That. The Rest of the World Needs a Plan

By Benjamin Cowling

Can China Control an Epidemic From the Top Down?

By Elizabeth Economy

The Worst-Case Scenario Isn’t Inevitable, but It Can’t Be Ignored

By Tom Inglesby