After Denouncing New US Sanctions, North Korea Fires 2 Short-Range Ballistic Missiles
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Is Massachusetts nearing peak of latest COVID-19 surge? Local experts weigh in
WCVB (Boston ABC affiliate)
KFC and Chipotle launched new plant-based products nationwide. They probably won’t be the last.
Washington Post
Somalia may be on the verge of another famine
Al Jazeera
Friedman's Daniel Maxwell co-authors this opinion piece calling for the international community to take urgent action to prevent famine in Somalia, where evidence suggests that a significant part of the population is facing a major food crisis.
US capitalism has a few things in common with Soviet economies
Taipei Times
Fletcher’s Amar Bhide looks at today’s capitalist economies through the lens of Soviet-style central planning.
Found yourself in quarantine? We asked public health experts for suggestions on how to spend the time
Boston Globe
Desmond Tutu’s devotion to the planet and to justice for all
The Guardian
Abi Williams, Director of the Institute for Global Leadership, writes a letter in response to The Guardian’s obituary of Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Kim Jong Un’s decade in power: Starvation, repression and brutal rule – just like his father and grandfather
The Conversation
Fletcher's Sung-Yoon Lee details the first 10 years of Kim Jong Un’s rule of North Korea, noting that the young dictator “has the capacity to surpass even the ghastly death tolls of his two familial predecessors.”
‘I regret that Pakistan has still not formally apologised’
The Daily Star
A&S historian Ayesha Jalal discusses the circumstance in Pakistan prior to the birth of Bangladesh in 1971.