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October 18, 2024

United States
Election 2024: Is the United States Ready to Confront the Axis of Autocracies?

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This week: Rising cooperation among China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea will likely test whoever takes office…

Putin and Kim Jong-un at Pyongyang Summit

October 30, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Geofencing: The Overlooked Barrier to Reproductive Freedom

Data brokers’ geofencing practices around healthcare facilities can expose women to harassment and prosecution. Federal legislation modeled on laws in New York and Connecticut would protect women’s p…

People look at data on their mobile phones as background with crowd of people walking is projected in this illustration picture taken on May 30, 2018.

June 21, 2023

United States
Modi’s State Visit to the U.S. Is a Litmus Test for Values-Based U.S. Trade Policy

The Joe Biden administration should take the opportunity to strengthen economic ties and push for good governance in India.

President Joe Biden meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House during the latter’s last visit to the United States in  September, 2021.

April 24, 2023

COVID-19
Breaking Down the Barriers: A Call to Drop the Forty-Eight Hour PCR Test Requirement for Inbound Travelers to China

China’s maintenance of the forty-eight hour pre-departure PCR testing requirement has been primarily driven by geopolitical considerations rather than public health concerns.

A traveller waits for PCR test to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as he arrives at the Hong Kong International Airport, in Hong Kong, China February 21, 2022. (Tyrone Siu/Reuters)

October 8, 2020

COVID-19
Senegal Pilgrimage Tests Resistance to COVID-19

Senegal is a major center of West African Islam, and its imams, mullah, and brotherhoods are influential across the Sahel. The holy city of Touba, 120 miles east of the Senegalese capital of Dakar, is the site of a major annual pilgrimage called the Magal

Woman wearing personal protective gear performs a nasal swab on a man sitting on a hospital bed.

June 18, 2020

North Korea
North Korea’s Loyalty Test and the Demolition of Inter-Korean Relations

This week, North Korea’s Kim family dynasty imposed a new test of loyalty on its southern neighbors and found them lacking. 

A view of the explosion of North Korea's joint liaison office with South Korea in the border town of Kaesong, North Korea in this picture supplied by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 16, 2020.