Two weeks ago, the Trump administration issued a memo seeking to remove undocumented immigrants from the 2020 census headcount used for congressional reapportionment. Demographer William Frey discusses the consequences of the president's decision and a rushed census.
Amid the toll that the coronavirus is wreaking on its people and economy, Pakistan's civilian-military games continue, and its democracy loses out. Madiha Afzal writes that the pandemic's aftershocks have weakened the country's civilian government, further emboldened its military, and brought about a broader crackdown on dissent.
This week, President Trump issued executive orders that will effectively ban two major Chinese apps from the U.S. market: TikTok and WeChat. Geoffrey Gertz assesses the immediate and long-term implications for the companies and their American consumers, for U.S.-China relations, and for the broader conflict over the future of the internet.
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