Higher Education Risks No Longer Being Worth It – Here’s How to Change Course The fact that higher education is suffering from the pandemic is not surprising—every sector has been affected one way or another. Christos A. Makridis 28 Dec 2020 · 5 min read
Social Distancing and Stay-Home Orders Are Likely To Save Millions It was only after coronavirus proved so much more deadly in China and Italy that governments outside of Asia took dramatic actions including radical social distancing and stay-at-home orders. Michael Shellenberger 26 Mar 2020 · 3 min read
How Iran’s Dictators Laid the Foundation for the Country's Coronavirus Crisis While the disease itself is, of course, an apolitical phenomenon, Iran’s repressive, theocratic political system has played a role in the especially high toll that coronavirus is taking on the Iranian people. Shay Khatiri 21 Mar 2020 · 5 min read
As Brazil Confronts Coronavirus, Bolsonaro and His Supporters Peddle Fake News When thousands of people took to the streets anyway, the president himself shared videos of the demonstrations, even though he’d recommended their suspension. Raphael Tsavkko Garcia 20 Mar 2020 · 6 min read
Winning the War on Coronavirus The governments of the US, UK, and other nations have made real progress, but they must go much further in being transparent about their vision of how to win the war on coronavirus, and what they are doing to achieve it. Michael Shellenberger 19 Mar 2020 · 9 min read
How Damaging Will the Coronavirus be to Xi Jinping’s Authority? Xi’s hope is that he can present himself as the strong man—the decisive leader—who saved China and the world from the virus. Brian Eaton 13 Feb 2020 · 4 min read
