Palestinian Refusal to Negotiate With Israel and Trump: A Cowardly, Fateful Mistake

As a former Palestinian negotiator, this is my urgent message to the old, stale, failed Palestinian political elite: Rejectionism won’t stop...

Terms of success

'New Deal' program requires deregulation, innovation The Moon Jae-in administration's economic stimulus program has taken concrete moves to...

Next year in Jerusalem 

In the Jewish Diaspora, the prayers for Passover and Yom Kippur end with the plea: “Next year in Jerusalem.” At least since roughly the 15th...

Neglect of workplace safety

Industrial accident deaths increase despite toughened punishment The number of workers who died from industrial accidents in the first quarter...

No more shrimp sandwiches, please

By Choi Sung-jin Few nations in the world may yearn more for international recognition than Korea. That explains in part why Koreans are proud of...

Wonderful world of K-golf

By Bernard Rowan Golf has come to Korea big time! On the heels of such standouts as Pak Se-ri, K.J. Choi, Grace Park, and many others, Korea has...

Fever of K-pop culture

By Choe Chong-dae When I visited Europe last year, I was surprised to see many groups of young people who were dancing and singing to K-pop music....

Storytellers, we are

By Kim Ae-ran Each of us has our story. Our life with ups and downs creates an interesting story as well as a touching testimony to life. We like...

Looters and rioters trampling memory of George Floyd

By Christine Flowers It has been suggested to me that as a white woman, I should back off when it comes to certain issues. I find this ironic,...

Learning to live with COVID-19

By Ngaire Woods and Leany Lemos Ngaire Woods Leany Lemos OXFORD/PORTO ALEGRE ― One of COVID-19's paradoxes has been the way in which some...

America is burning and the tyrant is barricaded in the palace

Commentary. This national uprising is taking place in a country of 40 million unemployed, after 100,000 dead due to COVID-19, the virus that has...

Why Indonesia won’t let Beijing forget the Philippines’ South China Sea arbitration win

Indonesia’s low-key diplomatic protest at the United Nations against China’s disputed claims in the South China Sea last week made some analysts...

‘Will I be next?’ Coco Gauff leads athlete protests

'Am I next? I am using my voice. Will you use yours?' The violent subordination of black people is a subject on which sports stars often speak...

Defendant No. 1 Tweets Again

Saving the Most Vulnerable from COVID-19

CAMBRIDGE – In Massachusetts, which has a population of close to seven million, over 6,000 people have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of...

Americans fight to breathe as society again chokes on racism

In the United States, the name Karen has lately become social media shorthand for a white woman who typically demands to “speak to the manager”...

Haaretz Cartoon

Miri Regev’s Mizrahi Theme Park

Detailed records must be kept to assess response to virus outbreak

How should the government act to protect the lives and livelihoods of the public from outbreaks of infectious diseases? To answer this, it is...

Vaša tišina bo naš zvok

‘Veliki glasbenik ni tisti, ki se ga najbolj sliši, ampak tisti, ki najbolj posluša drugega.« Epidemije je konec, in čeprav kdo v vladnih...

White Supremacist Provocateurs Are Tipping U.S. Protests Into a Race War

The secret of Japan’s success in combating COVID-19

The government on May 25 lifted the state of emergency declared over COVID-19 as the number of new infections with the novel coronavirus decreased...

Russian derangement syndrome

EASTERN SHORE, MARYLAND – On May 21, the U.S. Department of State announced a $250,000 grant for “Exposing Russian Health Disinformation,” to...

Fear is at the root of America’s race problem

London – It’s been a bad week in the United States: six nights of protests, huge anger, rioting and looting in 50 cities, hundreds arrested or...

China’s border invasion will push India toward the U.S.

Washington – A flare-up in a long-running border dispute between China and India has raised the temperature in their bilateral relationship. Yet...

How one man’s efforts saved Japan’s postwar democracy and the SDF

Kobe – Sixty years ago this month, as the protest demonstrations raged over the ratification of the revised Japan-U.S. Security Treaty,...

China steps up its offensive against the Senkaku Islands

On May 8, two China Coast Guard (CCG) ships intruded into the territorial waters of the Senkaku Islands and pursued a Japanese fishing boat that...

What the Democrats Must Do

BERKELEY – Like almost all other countries, the United States has become poorer since the COVID-19 pandemic began, because Americans can no...

An Interview with Barak Barfi