Contemporary Democracies

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• At the Washington Post, Healthy Buildings coauthor Joseph Allen provided ten vital updates to our COVID playbook for 2022.
• At the Los Angeles Times, Jim Downs, author of Maladies of Empire: How Slavery, Imperialism, and War Transformed Medicine, delved into the history of epidemiology that must inform public understanding of the current pandemic.
• Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? author Alexander Keyssar spoke with the Harvard Gazette about the dark lessons for democracy of the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.
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