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How refugees’ COVID-19 problems can be eased
This year’s World Refugee Day, on June 20, highlighted the vulnerabilities and resilience of refugees around the world during a particularly challenging time, as they face…
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Why realism is the key to wellbeing – new research
Chris Dawson and David de Meza Life coaches and motivational speakers often treat positive thinking as the key to happiness. Self-help books tend to promote a…
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Covid-19 And Migrant Workers: Planning the return and reintegration of forced returnees
During the pandemic, forced return of migrants has become a major issue of concern for intergovernmental bodies and the global civil society engaged in migration issues.…
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Should the United States withdraw from the WTO
The joint effort by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.) to withdraw the United States from the World Trade Organization (WTO) has run…
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They’re protesting 400 years of brutal repression:Noam Chomsky
The United States is burning. A curfew has been imposed in several cities, while the uprisings in the streets of black and white protesters alike show…
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How to Build a Post-Pandemic America
The case for a new federal agency to integrate our education system and workforce. Jamie Merisotis and Jesse O’Connell The Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal…
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Italy after COVID-19 is increasingly unequal, but more cohesive and civic
A poorer country, but a more cohesive one. Post-lockdown Italy is a country shocked by the pandemic, but the heavy economic consequences have, in turn, awakened…
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How migration threatens the Hindutva project
Subaltern castes supported the BJP in the hope of upward mobility. That dream looks increasingly elusive Abhinav Prakash Singh The Hindutva project that seeks to create…
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As Rohingya Boats Keep Sailing, Southeast Asia Turns a Blind Eye
With the coronavirus now an excuse for inaction, the threat to the embattled minority is growing ever sharper. Verena Hölzl The ink was barely dry on…
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This is what the future of globalization will look like
The pandemic proved, once and for all, that the world can’t be flat. But global trade can recover—if we rewrite the rules Henry Farrell and Abraham…
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Who lost Hong Kong on June 30?
On June 30, a new national security law was enacted in Beijing and immediately enforced in Hong Kong. That was the day when the long-eroding fiction…
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Three reasons why we need to talk about the mental health of political leaders
As the impeachment investigation gathers pace on Capitol Hill, some commentators have argued that if Donald Trump remains the Republican presidential candidate in 2020, there is…