"Forced to choose between the façade of nonpartisanship on one hand and professional integrity and sound public health guidance on the other, [Anthony] Fauci has clearly chosen the latter," says Lincoln Mitchell.

Joseph Stiglitz is cited among scholars who have recommended steps to address widening disparities.

Julio Friedmann of SIPA Center on Global Energy Policy comments.

"We’ll never agree with the Russian leader on principles, but we might be able to negotiate a better security structure for Europe," Rajan Menon of the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies (SIWPS) writes with Thomas Graham Jr.

Joseph Stiglitz calls for caution at the Fed, arguing that higher interest rates wouldn’t solve the supply snafus and global shortages that have helped push up inflation, while labor-force participation remains well short of what it could be.

Alexander Cooley writes about the Collective Security Treaty Organization, which on Jan. 5 sent troops to help the Kazakh government quell mounting political unrest.

"In supporting the CSTO intervention today in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz President Sadyr Japarov is perhaps hoping to secure similar CSTO support for himself in the future," Aidai Masylkanova MIA '09 writes.

[en español] Is the ideological pendulum swinging once again in Latin American politics? María Victoria Murillo foresees a wave not from the right or left, but of general discontent with whomever is currently in power.

SIPA faculty Thomas J. Christensen and Keren Yarhi-Milo remember their distinguished colleague.