Thu, Jan 28, 2021
Smithsonian’s Lonnie Bunch: ‘We’re still in the midst of a fundamental debate over what America is’
“The role of a museum is not just to look back, but to collect today for tomorrow,” Lonnie G. Bunch said during an Atlantic Council Front Page virtual conversation with Dr. Richard Kurin, the Smithsonian’s distinguished scholar and ambassador-at-large.
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Thu, Jan 28, 2021
FAST THINKING: Breaking down Biden’s big climate moves
President Joe Biden came into office promising to make big moves to address climate change. Yesterday he got to work with a bevy of executive orders designed to take some of the new administration’s first major steps. What do they mean?
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Wed, Jan 20, 2021
Bhasan Char: An inflection point in the Rohingya refugee crisis?
On December 4, 2020, Dhaka followed through on its promise to move refugees from Cox’s Bazar to Bhasan Char, starting a new, unpredictable chapter in the Rohingya crisis. However, Bhasan Char does not solve these problems as much as it relocates them. Separating some refugees from others does not address the underlying drivers of crime within the refugee camps. If anything, relocation splinters aid response, and further attenuates humanitarian space.
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