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.

Experts discussed the impact of COVID-19 on Big Tech companies in a recent teleconference.

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.