A Return to Normalcy?
John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson & H.R. McMaster, Hoover Institution
John Cochrane, Niall Ferguson & H.R. McMaster, Hoover Institution
II. Otidi Amuke, Afr. Arguments
At the start, Health Secretary Mutahi Kagwe was able to talk the talk of a state in control. But then the government had to walk the walk.
Luke Patey, Japan Times
Azeem Ibrahim, Center for Global Policy
The United States, as the largest donor to the World Health Organization, should initiate an investigation into the agency’s failures – including whether China had any role in those failures – and lead a global effort to reform the organization.
JoongAng
The ruling Democratic Party (DP) of President Moon Jae-in won a landslide in Wednesday’ general election, securing a solid majority in the 300-member National Assembly.
Voters elected 253 lawmakers for constituencies and 47 proportional representatives by voting for political parties. As of 9:15 a.m. on Thursday, 99.9 percent of the ballots for the 253 districts were counted and the DP won 163 seats.
Ian Jenkins, Oil Price
Marc Bennetts, Politico EU
The outbreak has come at a sensitive time for the Russian president.
Kerstin Kullmann et al, Der Spiegel
Donald Trump’s disastrous crisis management has made the United States the new epicenter of the global coronavirus pandemic. The country is facing an unprecedented economic crash. Are we witnessing the implosion of a superpower?
Michael Mazarr, War on the Rocks
Now that the pandemic crisis is hammering America’s finances, U.S. strategy risks veering even further into permanent insolvency. Even before the crisis, the military demands of an intense global competition with China, Russia, and secondary competitors like Iran and North Korea were becoming financially untenable. Now, the costs of the current crisis — in both the short and long term — are
Ronald Dworkin, The American Interest
How mental habits and ideology may have led government officials astray in the early days of the outbreak.
A. Flood & S. Saradzhyan, RM
Russians have come to think that President Vladimir Putin represents the interests of oligarchs above everyone else, according to the latest Levada Center poll. Thirty-eight percent of respondents in the March 2020 national survey said Putin is a champion of the oligarchs, a perception that has been rising since 2001. This is the first time oligarchs have overtaken “siloviki"—members of Russia’s so-called...
M. Abramowitz et al, Bush Center
Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán recently approved a decree by his nation’s parliament that gives him broad powers to rule his country as the world grapples with the coronavirus. The move drew criticism from a number of democratic leaders around the world. But do you think this pandemic is likely to give rise to greater authoritarianism?