COVID-19 Continues to Hit Trump Counties, Governance Across State Lines, and More

May 11, 2020

“A pandemic knows no borders, but at every turn our policies are confined by them.” Tracy Loh and Annelies Goger explain how urban governance was shaped in the United States and argue that it is time to rethink governance across jurisdictions to combat cross-border crises.

Even with coronavirus cases on the rise in many states, some are beginning to lift restrictions on business and social interaction, especially in parts of the country that did not bear the initial brunt of the coronavirus. Demographer William Frey provides an update on the spread of the virus in Republican-leaning counties.

How does education relate to support for Boko Haram? Madiha Afzal writes that the explanation rests on grievances that already existed in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north against the federal government’s post-colonial, federally-imposed, Westernized system of education.

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