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Lawsuit Against Fox News Over Coronavirus Coverage: Can It Succeed? Should It?

There are reasons to be wary of lawsuits as a tactic for controlling the information that media outlets disseminate, even if it is to punish Fox News.
Rohingya refugees, without wearing any mask or any other safty gear as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus, wait in a relief distribution point at Kutupalong refugee camp in Ukhia March 24, 2020.

COVID-19 and Humanitarian Access for Refugees and IDPs: Part 2 – Syria and Bangladesh

The coronavirus crisis should not function as a cover for repressive action under the guise of protecting health, especially in already vulnerable populations.
Emergency Medical Technicians bring a patient into Wyckoff Hospital in the Borough of Brooklyn on April 6, 2020 in New York.

The Human Rights Lessons from COVID-19: Equality Requires Economic and Social Rights Protections

Minority communities are having to weather the worst of the pandemic. Still, the Trump administration continues its efforts to downplay the significance of economic and social…
Gavel and stethoscope

Don’t Bother Suing China for Coronavirus

"Simply put, any scholar or practitioner with working knowledge of the law of foreign sovereign immunity would have taken one look at the headlines about these lawsuits (as I did)…
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman James Risch (R-ID) (L) and ranking member Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

How Congress Can Save Lives, Protect Rights, and Exert U.S. Leadership Globally in Response to Coronavirus

Given the Trump administration’s foreign policy proclivities, it’s likely that Congress will have to do much of the heavy lifting.
Children in facemasks at a camp for displaced people in Atme town in Syria's northwestern Idlib province.

Putting People First: COVID-19 Reveals Shortcomings of US Approach to Security in the Middle East

The focus of U.S. policy in the Middle East over the past several decades has been on using military tools to fight terrorists, wage proxy wars, and support dictators who promise…

COVID-19 Shows How the U.S. Got National Security Wrong

Today's pandemic has revealed that our national security priorities have been completely wrong. It is past time to rethink what national security should mean.
Israeli police stop a vehicle at a checkpoint in Bnei Barak

Can Governments Track the Pandemic and Still Protect Privacy?

A team of Europeans is creating a different contact-tracing tool that they say is designed to limit the collection and exposure of personal data.
Migrants and refugees, some wearing facemasks for protective measures, queue in a makeshift camp next to the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos.

COVID-19 Could Ravage Refugees and Asylum Seekers

The vulnerability of refugees and asylum seekers has been long recognized, yet the vast majority of countries have not even included refugees and asylum seekers in their pandemic…
Security personnel inspect a damaged Sikh-Hindu Temple

How Terrorist Groups Will Try to Capitalize on the Coronavirus Crisis

Terrorist groups will try to capitalize on the raging pandemic, the public’s increased fears, and the lack of confidence in governments by engaging in future targeted attacks.
A tray of potential vaccines for COVID-19.

Biopharma: The Next National Security Frontier

In a post-COVID-19 world, biopharma companies may become far more integral to our nation’s safety.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban (C) walks near other representatives during a vote about the government's bill on the protection against the new coronavirus COVID-19 at the plenary session of the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, Hungary on March 30, 2020.

Threats to Democracy Spread with the Virus, We Must Keep Both in Check

In Hungary, the parliament has lost the ability to check the power of Viktor Orbán and his executive branch.
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