Must-Reads 
UK/Health – UK approves BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, ready to use next week, Jillian Deutsch, Politico  
Health – The dangers of vaccine disillusionment, Josh Michaud and Jen Kates, Foreign Affairs   
Economy – Turning Hope Into Reality: OECD Economic Outlook, December 2020  
US – Biden ‘We’re going to fight like hell by investing in America first’, Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times   
US/Migration – Mexican immigrants in the United States, Emma Israel and Jeanne Batalova, Migration Policy Institute 
Germany/Migration – A Turkish-German Couple May Save Us From the Virus. So Why Is Germany Uneasy? Anna Sauerbrey, New York Times 
US/Europe/China – Priorities for a transatlantic China strategy, Franklin D. Kramer, Atlantic Council   
US/Afghanistan – The Biden transition and the real impact of U.S. force cuts in Afghanistan, Anthony H. Cordesman, CSIS   
US/Defense – The next national defense strategy, Benjamin Jensen and Nathan Packard, War on the Rocks  
US/Security – Is America to be first, second – or what? Victor Davis Hanson, National Review    
Bulgaria/North Macedonia – How to advance a European solution to Bulgaria’s and North Macedonia’s dispute, Goran Buldioski and Vessela Tcherneva, European Council on Foreign Relations   
China/Digital – How should democracies confront China’s digital rise? Weighing the merits of a T-10 alliance, Steven Feldstein   
Statecraft – Women and statecraft history, Seth Center and Emma Bates (eds.), CSIS  
Democracy – The west must live up to its own principles on democracy, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Financial Times   
Disinformation – Democratic offense against disinformation, Alina Polyakova and Daniel Fried, CEPA/Atlantic Council 
Europe – Newtonian Europe, The Economist