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Facebook Oversight Board’s Decision on Trump Sets Up New Tests
The board made critical recommendations: that Facebook reckon with its own role in amplifying content and overhaul its approach to high-reach accounts.
Senate Bill Threatens Sensitive U.S. Diplomacy
Section 310 of the bill sweeps too broadly and would have unintended consequences by chilling the most sensitive types of diplomacy that have always been entrusted to the executive…
Early Edition: May 7, 2021
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Beyond the Coup in Myanmar: A Northern View
A civil society leader from Myanmar's volatile northeast border reflects on the unthinkable challenges in her work since the coup - and the hidden blessings of life in a "conflict…
Twenty Years After 9/11, the US Needs a Better Strategy to Prevent and Counter Violent Extremism
Five steps the Biden-Harris administration should take to ensure that it is developing and implementing a more up-to-date and effective approach to P/CVE.
Preparing for Future Pandemics Means Improving and Reforming — Not Abandoning — the WHO
Committing to an international effort in response to transnational health threats does not mean surrendering sovereign authority or essential interests.
Early Edition: May 6, 2021
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Conscience Wars in France?
Culture wars is an expression that was first popularized in U.S. politics by sociologist James Hunter in the early 1990s. While France traditionally prides itself in refusing the…
In a COVID World, America Is Divided Over Its Common Defense
We need to reconceptualize what security means; explore how we can build paradigms that re-connect our polarized society; and respond to the security challenges we face in ways…
Early Edition: May 5, 2021
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The Facebook Oversight Board’s Trump Ban Decision Is About More Than Trump
The Oversight Board must grapple with algorithmic decision-making and whether politicians' speech ought to be governed by special rules, with implications for political speech…
The Guilty Verdict in the Chauvin Trial Did Not Cure America’s Over-policing Problem
While the guilty verdict provides a measure of accountability, the expansive U.S. criminal legal system still routinely enables police to wrongfully deprive people – particularly…