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25 Years After Beijing: Women’s Leadership in the MENA Region

“If you have initiatives that are not institutionalized, you're going to go nowhere,” says Mehrinaz El Awady, Director of the Gender Justice, Population and Inclusive Development Cluster at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission. “You will have just one-time success and that's it.”

The Perfect Weapon: David Sanger Discusses Upcoming HBO Documentary

“There are two kinds of hacks that we are trying to protect against, each of which requires very different strategies,” says David Sanger, national security correspondent at the New York Times. “One of them is the hacking of infrastructure…and the second is the hacking of minds."

Waging War on Disinformation

Nina Jankowicz testified before the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, telling legislators that “disinformation is a threat to democracy, no matter what political party it benefits or whether it is foreign or domestic in its source.”

Rolling Out a Vaccine for COVID-19: Present Prospects and Lessons from the Past

Despite rigorous safeguards still in place to protect the public, “even carefully-prepared vaccines can have problems,” says Dr. Peter Salk, President of the Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation.

Ten Years after Debut, North Korea’s Kim Celebrates Nuclear Accomplishments - And Acknowledges Hardships

Jean Lee writes that while Kim “acknowledged the hardships the North Korean people are undergoing” in a recent address, he also “sought to pin the blame on circumstances largely beyond his control.”

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