Tag: opinions
Hope for a New “UN Moment”
When the United Nations celebrates its 75th anniversary this September, the US will still…
Why Do HIV Vaccine Trials Keep Failing?
Spending hundreds of millions of dollars to manufacture and test HIV vaccines that have…
How South Korea Built a Health System to Beat COVID-19
Although South Korea faced one of the world’s largest initial COVID-19 outbreaks outside China,…
How to Protect Journalists from Online Harassment
Big technology companies are both unwilling and unable fully to address the the cyberharassment…
Zimbabwe’s Outlaw Regime
By arresting a prominent corruption-busting reporter, the Zimbabwean government has once again demonstrated its…
Opening the Tech Sector to Africa’s Women
The benefits of empowering women to participate in the digital economy are obvious. The…
China Plays the Iran Card
A recently announced partnership accord between China and Iran will have far-reaching strategic implications…
Harnessing Malawi’s Youth Bulge
Malawi’s large and growing youth population does not lack talent or ambition. But how…
Why Putin Should Fear Belarus
The possible political demise of Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko after a quarter-century in power…
A More Humane Post-Pandemic Social Contract
Beyond a public-health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic is an economic and humanitarian crisis –…
Africa Is More Resilient Than You Think
The short-term shock of the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic fallout will have a…
The Necessity of Diversity in the Digital Newsroom
Demographically uniform newsrooms have been producing uniformly homogeneous content for decades, and the lack…
Chairman Kim Goes Back on Script
US President Donald Trump’s made-for-TV “bromance” with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has played…
Reimagining the Office
The COVID-19 crisis seems to be accelerating a shift toward remote work. But, rather…
Modi’s Fiscal Follies
If households decide to save more and consume less during an economic slump, then…
How People Power Strengthens the Rule of Law
Dynamic grassroots movements are especially needed in authoritarian states where institutions are fundamentally broken.…
Education Is Crucial to Africa’s COVID-19 Response
COVID-19 has presented African policymakers with a barrage of difficult choices. But if governments…
Investing in African Logistics
If economic and commercial opportunities were not enough motivation for investors to tackle the…
Human COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Are Unnecessary, Uninformative, and Unethical
Deliberately infecting healthy human volunteers with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in order to test the…
Nigeria’s Mental Health Desert
Nigeria is failing those of its people who struggle with mental-health issues – no…
How to Protect Refugees in a Pandemic
Despite Uganda’s large population of displaced people from neighboring wars, no confirmed cases of…
Ethiopia’s Unconventional COVID-19 Response
Instead of implementing a national lockdown like most other governments, including in Africa, Ethiopia…
Africa’s Hour of Need
African governments urgently need additional external financing to help them mitigate the pandemic’s economic…
The Rich World’s Pandemic Imperative
While the advanced economies reckon with the costs of the COVID-19 lockdown phase, developing…
Deterring the Debt Vultures in Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to make African countries even more vulnerable to aggressive sovereign-debt…
What AIDS Taught Us About Fighting Pandemics
After HIV/AIDS, SARS, MERS, and other recent epidemics, periods of heightened awareness and important…
Corruption: Why the Powerful Never See Inside of Prison
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, up to 25% of…
Why Women Make Better Crisis Leaders
While many factors are shaping outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic, leadership is undoubtedly one…
Emerging Economies Need New Finance, Not Moratoriums
A comprehensive debt-repayment freeze could be counterproductive for emerging economies that currently retain access…
Building a Fearless Media (Part 1)
May 3, 2020, the World marked press freedom day with an exciting theme of…
