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Commentary: Omicron proves the world fails to face global threats with global solutions

President Joe Biden has spoken passionately about the “clear and urgent choice” we face as citizens of an interconnected world, asking the United Nations General Assembly in September whether we will work together, or fail to meet the challenges of our time. The knee-jerk, nationalist reactions to the omicron variant suggest the latter, and the United States is no exception.

I wrote earlier this year that America under Biden hasn’t looked particularly cooperative, from vaccine hoarding and extended travel bans to the AUKUS submarine scandal. You’d be hard-pressed to

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