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Did Big Tech Save the World From an Even Bigger Economic Meltdown?

Bhaskar Chakravorti evaluates if the nations with better digital readiness experienced greater economic resilience during the COVID-19 meltdown, via his Foreign Policy column.

In the News

The climate change bargaining game

April 22, 2021

Dan Drezner weighs the pros and cons of getting large developing countries to adopt environmental policy shifts, via his op-ed in The Washington Post.

Professor Emeritus Bill Moomaw Reflects on the 51st Earth Day

April 22, 2021

“We are all being asked to take a leadership role and change the destructive trajectory we are on.”

Biden taking big risk with this week’s climate change summit of world leaders

April 21, 2021

Dean Rachel Kyte is quoted in reference to the White House Summit on Climate Change, via an article in The Hill.

The norms on mask-wearing need to shift

April 20, 2021

Dan Drezner offers a meditation on post-covid behavior, via his op-ed in The Washington Post.

Why I feel sorry for Mike Pompeo

April 19, 2021

Dan Drezner theorizes how the latest IG report reveals former Secretary of State bereft of friends, via his op-ed in The Washington Post.

Competition heats up in the melting Arctic, and the US isn’t prepared to counter Russia

April 19, 2021

Rocky Weitz examines Russia’s attempt to claim more of the Arctic seabed and suggests how the US can boost its influence in the region, via his article in The Conversation.