As part of the Pacific Council’s GTMO Observer Program, Adam Barry traveled to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to attend the pre-trial proceedings involving the U.S. prosecution against Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and others accused of carrying out the 9/11 attacks. Read his Observer Dispatch.

Monarch Global Strategies released a new report, Pandemics and Beyond: The Potential for U.S.-Mexico Cooperation in Public Health, which reviews past bilateral collaboration on epidemics, identifies a number of specific areas for additional public-private and private-private collaboration, and provides specific recommendations for policy actions to be taken once the crisis abates.

Especially in this moment of chaos and upheaval, we must remain vigilant in ensuring that the world’s most vulnerable are protected, writes Ann Durbin.

While this is a serious crisis, it is also an opportunity for a fundamental transformation of our interactions with each other, our values, and our assessment of power, authority, and governance, writes Sohaela Amiri.