Covid-19

A Letter From Nigeria, Where Coping With COVID-19 Entails Twitterstorms, Bullets, and Corruption

Once Again Nigerians Will Adapt to Whatever Their New Normal Becomes

A Letter From Nigeria, Where Coping With COVID Entails Twitterstorms, Bullets, and Corruption | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian

We wake up on a March morning that feels shaken, the air suddenly colder, drained of one energy and infused with another. The numbers from Lagos have increased again. “We have to go now, this is getting serious,” I tell J., who is half asleep. We are alone in a friend’s flat in the small university town we visit for getaways, but it’s time to get back to Big City.

For weeks, all our friends have thought I’m over worrying, overreacting. We pack our things. On the way out of town, …

by Otosirieze Obi-Young |

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Where I Go: Jigsaw Puzzles | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian

Where I Go: Jigsaw Puzzles

Whenever I Have Too Much to Think About or Not Enough, I Pull Out a Puzzle    

by Beth Daniels |

Like most children of my generation, the first jigsaw puzzle I ever did was likely a plywood map of the United States, divided into 10 or so pieces with little …

A Letter From Beijing, Where There Is No Normal to Go Back to | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian

A Letter From Beijing, Where There Is No Normal to Go Back to

During Months in Lockdown, a Family Grows Closer and Gets Better at Taking Disappointments in Stride 

Interview by Peter Hong |

In China, people have recently emerged after spending months in their homes. Ching-Ching Ni, editor-in-chief of the New York Times Chinese website, explained to Zócalo how being stuck at home …

COVID-19 Is Magnifying the ‘Politics of Division’ | Zocalo Public Square • Arizona State University • Smithsonian

COVID-19 Is Magnifying the ‘Politics of Division’

Zócalo’s 2019 Book Prize Winner Warns That Democracies Must Embrace the Politics of Hope and Unity 

by Omer Bartov |

The COVID-19 pandemic has come at a critical historical moment. For the last two decades or so—since the collapse of the Soviet Union and communist rule in Eastern Europe—we have …


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