Der Spiegel
Every day, tens of thousands people in Germany seek to get tested for the novel coronavirus. Often, though, they run up against a lack of testing capacity. And it is likely to only get worse. By DER SPIEGEL Staff
R. Pillai Rajagopalan, Diplomat
The global pandemic has hit amid the 70th anniversary mark for relations and affected perceptions and realities in ties.
Alan Taylor, The Atlantic
Sana Sekkarie, Center for Global Policy
The provision of tests and medical equipment to the crowded camps in northern Syria must be made a priority in order to prevent a catastrophic coronavirus outbreak in the area.
Victor Davis Hanson, Wash. Times
Only the loud and opportunistic critics of Trump think otherwise.
William Astore, TomDispatch
My dad was born in 1917. Somehow, he survived the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1919, but an outbreak of whooping cough in 1923 claimed his baby sister, Clementina. One of my dad’s first memories was seeing his sister’s tiny white casket. Another sister was permanently marked by scarlet fever. In 1923, my dad was hit by a car and spent two...
Derek Thompson, The Atlantic
A playbook that should govern America’s short-term reaction to the health crisis.
Worldcrunch
If the fabric of our globalized society has been tested by the spread of COVID-19, that's also true for our national leaders. Our prime ministers and presidents are facing the kind of leadership challenge they could never have prepared for, with one thorny social-economic-cultural-constitutional dilemma after the other. High on that list is the question: How do you deliver unimaginably terrible news to your citizens?
Sholto Byrnes, The National
But the response to the coronavirus pandemic has revealed the weakness of regional and international associations
Dario Cristiani, Jamestown
J. Stavridis, Bloomberg View
L. Milevski, FPRI
The US, with NATO, routinely conducts military exercises all over Europe, especially since the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014 — exercises Russia inevitably condemns as destabilizing. The Defender Europe-20 exercise had just begun garnering increased attention in Western media when it
Ben Caspit, Al-M.
Yossi Cohen, head of Israel’s Mossad, has learned a very interesting lesson over the recent weeks: It is easier to “steal” the Iranian nuclear archives and transfer them to Israel than to procure medical ventilators and bring them to Israel’s hospitals. Cohen, who orchestrated in 2018 the unbelievable operation in which Mossad agents went off with the Iranian files...
Adam Tooze, Foreign Policy
The coronavirus pandemic has been a humiliation for the United States—and confirmation of its unmatched international power.
W. Shapiro, New Republic
The terrifying, censored coverage of the 1918 Spanish flu
Benjamin Haddad & Josh Lipsky, Atlantic Council
Seventy years ago, six European nations decided to pool their production of coal and steel, planting the seeds of the European project. In the aftermath of total devastation and war, European leaders were gambling on more than an improved economic situation: they were taking a political leap towards interdependence to create a different continent, and a model for the world.
