Project Syndicate

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – Beyond the major headlines surrounding the US presidential election, a little-noticed development is attracting attention both in India and among American campaign strategists.

SAN DIEGO – It is hard to imagine more devastating effects of climate change than the fires that have been raging in California, Oregon, and Washington, or the procession of hurricanes that have approached – and, at times, ravaged – the Gulf Coast.

By Marta Valiñas, Francisco Cox Vial, and Paul Seils NEW YORK – In September 2019, the United Nations Human Rights Council mandated us to investigate alleged human-rights violations in Venezuela – specifically, extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions and torture, and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.

By Chris Patten LONDON – When I was governor of Hong Kong, one of my noisiest critics was Sir Percy Cradock, a former British ambassador to China.

SÃO PAULO/GENT– When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Brazil’s economy, the country’s per capita income was already in steady decline.

By Muhammed Magassy BANJUL – Africa is becoming a new COVID-19 epicentre.

WASHINGTON, DC – After months of downplaying the severity of COVID-19, Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has contracted it.

By William A. Haseltine CAMBRIDGE – I was recently stunned to learn of the serious consideration being given to deliberately infecting human volunteers with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in order to assess the effectiveness of potential COVID-19 vaccines.

By Jeffrey Sommers MILWAUKEE – George Floyd’s death at the hands – and under the knee – of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has triggered a wave of peaceful protests and violent rioting in most major cities across the United States.

By  Simon Johnson, Galit Alter, Tess Cameron, and Michael Mina Simon Johnson is co-chair of the COVID-19 Policy Alliance and a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

By Shlomo Ben-Ami TEL AVIV – The COVID-19 crisis has become the latest front in the escalating clash of ideologies that has become a central feature of geopolitics in recent years.

By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI – As India’s 1.3 billion people struggle to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the country’s 28 states stands head and shoulders above the rest.

By  William A. Haseltine CAMBRIDGE – Like surfers looking out for the next big breaker before the first one has passed, epidemiologists and public-health officials in the United States are bracing themselves for a fresh surge of COVID-19 infections later this year.

By Gordon Brown LONDON – “This is not a discrete one-off episode,” Wellcome Trust head Jeremy Farrar has warned.

By Myoung-hee Kim SEOUL – South Korea experienced one of the world’s largest initial outbreaks of COVID-19 outside China.

By  Joseph E. Stiglitz, Arjun Jayadev, and Achal Prabhala Joseph E.

By Erik Berglöf, Gordon Brown, and Jeremy Farrar Erik Berglöf, a former chief economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, is Professor and Director of the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

By  Simon Johnson WASHINGTON, DC – We live now in the post-virus world.

By Hans-Werner Sinn MUNICH – The fight against COVID-19 is a full-on war.

By  Ricardo Hausmann CAMBRIDGE – It was bound to happen. At some point, Venezuela would enter the electoral debate in the United States.