“The European Union is ill suited for crisis...it’s all happening again over Covid-19, this time amplified by fear and death on a continent struggling with half of the world’s 1.4 million confirmed…
"A funny thing happened in 2008: I lost the right to vote. Having been a non-resident of Canada for five years, I could no longer cast an absentee ballot. And not being a citizen of the United…
“Many Americans now rely on digital tools to work remotely and stay connected. They shouldn’t have to sacrifice their privacy to use them” (NYT Editorial Board, 2020).
"In authoritarian China and democracies such as the U.S., the coronavirus pandemic has exposed the infections that societies have left in each other – and the loss of a sense of shared destiny"…
“If the coronavirus crisis is analogous to a war — and I believe that it is — Mr. Trump’s initial Easter forecast bears a chilling resemblance to the hollow promises made at the onset of other…
“Whatever advantages autocracy might offer for shaping a response to the pandemic, it becomes truly dangerous when the strongman chooses to deny the threat or to give some alternative narrative”…
"For authoritarian-minded leaders, the coronavirus crisis is offering a convenient pretext to silence critics and consolidate power. Censorship in China and elsewhere has fed the pandemic, helping to…
“Every one of the unprecedented, vastly consequential, health and economic measures that state, local and federal officials have taken up to now...reflects an unarticulated ethical position…
“Every one of the unprecedented, vastly consequential, health and economic measures that state, local and federal officials have taken up to now...reflects an unarticulated ethical position…
