Newsroom

June 10, 2020

The Pacific Council has launched a new platform for our member-written commentary and analysis. We are unveiling the Pacific Council Magazine, where you can find pieces written by our members on local-to-global topics, plus member spotlights and recaps and recordings from our events. Bookmark the new Pacific Council Magazine at pacificcouncil.online.

All previously published Newsroom articles are available below in the Newsroom Archive.

Please note that all upcoming events will still appear at our main website, pacificcouncil.org, or by visiting the Activities menu above.

May 20, 2021

CONTINUING OUR COLLABORATION ON FOREIGN REPORTING WITH USC

September 17, 2020

A GUIDE TO CALIFORNIA'S LOCAL-TO-GLOBAL BALLOT MEASURES

May 1, 2020

JANE OLSON: THE PACIFIC COUNCIL IS A WEST COAST INSTITUTION

Jane Olson discusses her role in the early days of the Pacific Council, what role LA can and should play on the international stage, and what she hopes the Council will look like in the years to come.

April 30, 2020

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES ARE PARTICULARLY VULNERABLE RIGHT NOW

Leaders of developing countries are worrying about their health and safety just as their medical systems come under assault, writes Grant Harris.

April 29, 2020

TRUMP'S ABSURD WAR ON VOICE OF AMERICA

The president doesn’t seem to understand that the news service is not a U.S. propaganda arm, write Geoffrey Cowan and James Glassman.

April 28, 2020

A STACKED DECK ON HEALTH

Being born black is a life sentence of poorer health outcomes, writes Judy Belk.

April 27, 2020

AI, GEOPOLITICS, AND THE FUTURE OF INFORMATION

Experts discussed artificial intelligence's potential to disrupt geopolitics on a recent teleconference.

April 23, 2020

The Local Perspective: Linda Griego

The creation of the Pacific Council in 1995 piqued Linda Griego’s interest in international affairs and made it clear to her that LA was destined to become a global city.

April 22, 2020

Challenging the Convening Authority at Guantánamo Bay

As part of the Pacific Council’s GTMO Observer Program, Lynn Ta traveled to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to attend the pre-trial proceedings involving the U.S. prosecution against Majid Shoukat Khan. Read her Observer Dispatch.

April 21, 2020

State Dept.’s Venezuela Plan a Step in the Right Direction

International consensus could possibly lay the foundation for Venezuelans to undertake the difficult but desperately needed turn to national reconciliation and reconstruction, write David Smilde and Abraham Lowenthal.

April 21, 2020

Trump’s Xenophobia Will Exacerbate Crisis

The president has repeatedly chosen opportunism over public health, but crises should not be used for promoting restrictionist policies against immigrants, write Eliane Fersan and Kai Golden.

April 17, 2020

What Will Life During and After the Pandemic Look Like?

Juliette Kayyem, former Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said the COVID-19 pandemic is unlike any other disaster that homeland security officials have had to deal with before and that everyone will have to be adaptive over the next two years.

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