Assignments

Week	Assignments
#1: Week of June 15^th	Listen: Epidemics in World History With Frank M. Snowden Lessons from past pandemics from Political Theater Read: Weather Conditions & Covid-19 Transmission “What History Can Teach Us About Building a Fairer Society after Coronavirus” by Richard Sayeed
#2: Week of June 22^nd	Listen: Listen to One Virus, A World Full Of Responses from FiveThirtyEight Politics Read: Coronavirus What You Need To Know (compare different actions taken by U.S. States in response to Covid-19) How Democracies Can Survive Dilemmas like coronavirus Which Kind of Democracies Respond More Effectively to a Pandemic? Some European Governments Acted Quickly to Fight the Pandemic. But Not the Ones You’d Expect. To Crack Down on Dissent in Hong Kong, Beijing is Sidelining Local Democratic Institutions In Latin America, Coronavirus threatens not just public health, but also democracy Freedom House Reports: Democracy During Pandemic Digital Election Interference
#3: Week of June 29^th	Watch: Chen Chien-jen Vice-President of Taiwan with Larry Diamond. Listen: Why COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Are Spreading from FiveThirtyEight Politics. When Science Is Partisan. Read: ‘A matter of trust’: COVID-19 pandemic has tested public confidence in science like never before More Online Campaigning May Invite More Foreign Interference in the U.S. Election. Withdrawing WHO Would Hurt Global Security and Global Respect for the U.S.
#4: Week of July 6^th	Listen: Can Government Spending Save the Economy? Read: Pelosi activates 45-day authorization for proxy voting, remote committee meetings Watch: Brief overview on debate over “Virtual Congress” DCN Chair Tom Perez on changing tactics for 2020 RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel on changing tactics for 2020
#5: Week of July 13^th	Read: Bacevich Lancet Editorial: “Reviving the US CDC” Avoiding Great Power War Project: “Coronavirus as a Strategic Challenge: Has Washington Misdiagnosed the Problem?” by Graham Allison The End of World Order and American Foreign Policy Redefining National Security for the Post-Pandemic World
#6: Week of July 20^th	Listen: Addressing COVID-19 in resource-poor and fragile countries The Humanitarian Response to COVID-19: Protecting the World’s Vulnerable Populations Read: “It’s the End of the World Economy as We Know It” by Neil Irwin Black Communities Have Been Hit Hard by Coronavirus. Some Think Black Americans Are to Blame. Five Ways Coronavirus is Making the World’s Most Vulnerable a lot more Vulnerable. What the G20 Should Do Now
#7: Week of July 27^th	Listen: How federal job vacancies hinder the government’s response to COVID-19 from Brooking Institution. Coronavirus is exploiting ‘the fissures of society,’ the Rev. William Barber says from Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart. Read: “How Disorderly Democracies Can Outperform Efficient Autocracies in Tackling Coronavirus,” Charles Hankla, The Conversation, May 7, 2020. The Federal Legislative Response to Coronavirus, a Tracker Unline the Supreme Court, State Courts Have Responded Quickly to the Pandemic. Here’s Why. Americans view the coronavirus pandemic through a lens of media trust and politics New survey shows U.S. public is ‘firmly opposed’ to reopening the economy immediately RED PANDEMIC, BLUE PANDEMIC — Most Republicans are rallying behind President Donald Trump’s calls for a quick reopening of businesses closed by coronavirus shutdowns, while Democrats strongly favor a more cautious approach, according to a new POLITICO-Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health survey.
#8: Week of August 3^rd	Listen: A Crisis Inside the Navy from The Daily on Apple Podcasts. Read: 2019 World Wide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. PDF Lisa Monaco “Pandemic Disease is a Threat to National Security: Washington Should Treat it Like One.” Foreign Affairs 3/3/2020 PDF Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. “Finding a Vaccine is only the First Step: No One Will be Safe Until the Whole World is Safe.” Foreign Affairs. 4/30/2020 PDF Watch: Condoleezza Rice: Covid-19 & National Security
#9: Week of August 10^th	Listen: Lockdowns or Clampdowns? \| Michael Ignatieff from Opinion Has It on Apple Podcasts. Read: “Fighting Covid-19 Shouldn’t Mean Abandoning Human Rights” by Allie Funk What Would Hobbes Say About the Pandemic? Governments Should Protect Lives – and Help the Poor. Vaccination and Coronavirus: Where the Public Good Clashes with Choice and Freedom
#10: Week of August 17^th	Listen: How green will Europe’s economic revival be? Spotify \| Apple \| Google \| Soundcloud \| Stitcher Pascal Canfin, the chair of the European Parliament’s environment committee, outlines what MEPs want to see from the EU’s recovery plan. Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron outlined their vision for that plan this week but how does the Parliament think the money should be raised and spent, particularly to help the EU meet its climate goals? Imagining the New 9-5 Read: Michael Osterholm, Mark Olshaker. “Chronicle of a Pandemic Foretold: Learning from the Covid-19 Failure – Before the Next Outbreak Arrives.” Foreign Affairs. 5/21/2020. (PDF) Relaxing COVID-19 Restrictions Presents Stark Health and Economic Choices How to Reset the US Pandemic Response Time for a Great Reset The Post-COVID State