One of the many lessons of this pandemic is that subnational actors like cities and non-governmental actors have proven they are the indispensable actors that have contributed significantly to combating the global crisis of the century, writes Karen Richardson.

Supporting initiatives that promote widespread sharing of data will help bring our struggles with the pandemic to a prompt conclusion, writes Kim Gagné.

Now is the time for funders to consider the immediate needs of the nonprofit organizations they support by increasing funding, write David La Piana and Madison McAleese.

African governments’ best response to the negative economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic consists of focusing on the rescue of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), writes Aurelie Ngo Mambongo.

While Beijing’s most recent threat to Hong Kong will likely end most vestiges of the “one country, two systems” policy, the Special Administrative Region appeared to have already arrived at a critical juncture in its political decline, write Brandon Alexander Millan and Joel S. Fetzer.

The term “post-COVID-19 world” has already entered our collective lexicon just as the “post-9/11 world” did more than two decades ago, and the “post-war world” did after the end of World War II, writes Ibrahim al-Marashi.

As the Covid-19 pandemic becomes increasingly deadly, it is clear that its disproportionate effect on African Americans has highlighted yet another consequence of institutionalized racism in America. Less attention has been paid as to why the same historical discrimination is a broader national security problem subsuming not only public health but other considerations as well, write Jerrold Green and Michael Lawson.

We must address the extremely vulnerable situation of agricultural workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, writes Marcela Celorio, consul general of Mexico in Los Angeles.