MAY / JUNE
Hunger, infection and repression: Venezuela’s coronavirus calamity – New Yorker
Contact-Tracing Apps: No Substitute for Public Healthcare Interventions – Bot Populi
Spread awareness rather than putting lockdown violators in jails. Allahabad HC Order. – Live Law
Crisis and Resistance at the Periphery: Bosnian responses to Covid-19 – Critical Legal Thinking
Quarantine debates in Zanzibar conjure memories of colonial racial segregation – Global Voices
“Bolivia’s Postcoup Regime Did Nothing to Stop the Virus” – Jacobin Mag
Kenyan police ‘killed 15’ since start of coronavirus curfew – Al Jazeera
How humanities can be part of the front-line response to the pandemic – Inside Higher Ed
Bioethics and Reproduction with Insights from Uruguay, by Lilian Abracinskas & Santiago Puyol – Global Public Health
From the plague to MERS: A brief history of pandemics – Al Jazeera
Trump blames China: Strategy echoes Bush’s targeting of Iraq – Truth Out
Trump’s HHS Secretary accidentally admits racism is driving covid – Truth Out
“The Universal Right to Breathe” – Achille Mbembe – Critical Thinking
Novel Corona: Posthuman Virus – Critical Thinking
Coronavirus: A Contingency that Eliminates Contingency – Critical Thinking
The Plague was Already Present – Critical Legal Thinking
Living as a virus in Modi’s India – Verso Blog
There is nothing innocuous left – Theodor Adorno – Verso Blog
David Harvey: We Need a Collective Response to the Collective Dilemma of Coronavirus – Jacobin
The politics behind how governments control coronavirus data – The Conversation
Privatised failure: the conservatives sidelined public health for the market – By Line Times
New age autarky – New Statesman
From counterterrorism to counter-COVID-19, governments use crises to impose continuous states of emergency in the Middle East – Global Voices
In Nicaragua people apparently die of pneumonia, not covid-19 – Global Voices
Russian doctors’ union launches map of problems faced by medics during covid-19 – Global Voices
Kremlin expands online voting for future elections amid covid-19 fears – Global Voices
Journalist in Russia’s regions catalogue the unseen victims of covid-19 – Global Voices
Nepali Muslims eye India’s growing Islamophobia with fear – Global Voices
In Bangladesh criticism of government response to the covid-19 pandemic is risky – Global Voices
Despite COVID-19 no respite for human rights crackdowns in Egypt – Global Voices
Cote d’Ivoire questions competence of African Court on human and people’s rights – Global Voices
Benin’s partial withdrawal from African Charter of Human Rights is a retreat from democracy – Global Voices
The coronavirus pandemic intensifies Islamophobia in India – Global Voices
Censorship tactics overshadow Vietnam’s successful COVID-19 responses – Global Voices
White nationalism born in the USA is now a global terror threat – The Conversation
How disorderly democracies can outperform efficient autocracies in tackling coronavirus – The Conversation
Trump’s use of religion follows playbook of authoritarian leaning leaders the world over – The Conversation
Hungary’s “de facto end of democracy” – Red Flag
‘Media and Top Central Leaders are Complicit in Communalising COVID-19’ – The Wire
MARCH / APRIL
Czechs fear autocratic contagion of coronavirus – Balkan Insight
Under cover of coronavirus, the world’s bad guys are wreaking havoc – The Guardian
The Fascist Politics of the Pandemic – Project Syndicate
Would-be autocrats are using covid-19 as an excuse to grab more power – Economist
Authoritarianism in the Time of the Coronavirus – Foreign Policy
Creeping Authoritarianism Has Finally Prevailed – The Atlantic
Don’t Touch Your Face: Autocrats – Foreign Policy
How Authoritarians Are Exploiting the COVID-19 Crisis to Grab Power – Human Rights Watch
Brazil: Bolsonaro Sabotages Anti-Covid-19 Efforts – Human Rights Watch
The problem with army enforced lockdowns in the time of COVID-19 – Al Jazeera
WHY POPULISTS LOVE THE PANDEMIC – Balkan Insight
Will the coronavirus ‘kill populism’? Don’t count on it – The Guardian
Coronavirus has not suspended politics – it has revealed the nature of power – The Guardian
The Case Against Waging ‘War’ on the Coronavirus – The Atlantic
The Social-Distancing Culture War Has Begun – The Atlantic
Azerbaijan’s president suggests coronavirus may require a crackdown on opposition – Eurasianet