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Are US Corporations Above the Law?
GEOFFREY HEAL By siding with major food corporations over six Malian former child slaves who were seeking compensation under US tort...


Statelessness in a Pandemic
AMAL DE CHICKERA Today, an estimated 15 million people are stateless, and tens of millions more are at risk of losing their nationality....


Media Capture Under Cover of COVID
ANYA SCHIFFRIN While media capture occurs in the best of times, a crisis creates opportunities to act even more brazenly to assert...


The Fight for Open Societies Begins Again
MARK MALLOCH-BROWN For decades, democracy and human-rights advocates have operated on the assumption that a growing number of governments...


On Liberty, Conspiracy, and Vaccination
HUGO DROCHON Now that vaccine hesitancy has emerged as a major threat to achieving herd immunity, public authorities might be tempted to...


The Appalling Increase in Child Labor
KAILASH SATYARTHI There can be no excuse for the fact that child labor has increased for the first time in two decades. World leaders...


The Pandemic Threat to Female Leadership
GEETA RAO GUPTA COVID-19 is causing women to leave the workforce in droves just when they are urgently needed in leadership positions,...


America’s False Imbalance Syndrome
JEFFREY FRANKEL US media often report that a particular policy is generally considered bad or unpopular, when in reality it seeks to...


How to Feed Ourselves
GILBERT F. HOUNGBO Climate change is accelerating, biodiversity is plummeting, hunger and extreme poverty are skyrocketing, and the gap...


The Measure of Moral Progress
PETER SINGER Mahatma Gandhi’s criterion for judging the greatness of a nation and its moral progress was its treatment of animals. By...


Building an Inclusive Digital Future
LEE JONG-WHA Now that the COVID-19 pandemic has hastened the arrival of the digital economy, policymakers around the world must do more...
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