"As a result of the pandemic and its ongoing nature, we're seeing that people's coping resources are sort of wearing thin. We're seeing depression...
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The crisis of democracy and governance
Online Conversation: Long COVID
International health expert and physician Dr. Kees Rietveld worries that instead of a fast exit from COVID we are entering a twilight scenario of...
Opinion: Long COVID
It is time for society to bite the bullet and accept that SARS CoV 2, the virus that causes COVID, is here to stay. It has become an endemic...
Democracy Now?
“I have never been in my whole life as worried as I was on that day…about whether or not we could survive as a democracy. I think we're as divided...
“A republic, if you can keep it”
One of America’s most revered founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin, allegedly used those words to describe what kind of political system the writers...
Celebrating or Cursing Democracy?
This week the United States inaugurates a new President, much to the joy of many Americans, but to the utter dismay of millions of others. And the...
Online Conversation: American Agonies
January 6, 2021 is now one of those days seared in our memories. What happened in Washington was awful, but perhaps inevitable—maybe...
Why Europe?
“I think by tradition, by history, by culture, by philosophy, the model of the way of life in Europe is in a way better for people, better for...
Follow the Science
“At the end of the day, we are all part of the same global population, and that virus does not recognize countries. It does not recognize races. It...