The Economic Disaster Wrought by COVID-19
The globalized, industrialized, and incessantly-driven economic world that we live in is similar to an amateur riding a bicycle. The moment he bears a shock, there is a genuine fear of halting down and falling off the ridge. The COVID-19 Pandemic is fast-emerging as the greatest shock of our times to the world economy.
SISI'S EGYPT: REPRESSION AT A CROSSROADS
Senior Editor Matt M. Joye chronicles the increasingly draconian regime of Egypt's President al-Sisi, and asks whether increasing repression sows the seeds for future unrest.