+ (BRANJE) Moralni hazard na koncu kriznih paketov

Zakaj bodo turističnim in gostinskim podjetjem omogočili podaljšanje ukrepov iz prvega paketa aktualne vlade za ublažitev posledic pandemije, če...

Vitajte doma, premianti Európy!

Veď tam v utorok slávnostne vystupoval predseda vlády, vicepremiérka, ministri vnútra a zdravotníctva. Budeme tretia krajina, ukazoval Igor...

Premena krajiny. Ale aká?

Tento rok zaplatíme za potraviny viac ako vlani, nielen pretože ovocie pomrzlo, ale vzápätí prišlo sucho. Pšenica stráca odnože, jačmeň je...

Argentina nos recuerda un problema internacional

Todo va según lo previsto. El periodo de gracia para evitar el default acabó el viernes 22 de mayo y el gobierno lo ha extendido hasta el 2 de...

Good riddance to China’s scrapped growth target

New York – One of China's most-watched pieces of economic data has been scrapped because of the coronavirus. Shed no tears. The decadeslong...

Post-coronavirus world economic environment

By Chang Se-moon Professor Kwak Soo-il, who is widely respected for his contribution to management science in Korea and is now a member of the...

It’s time to face the real risks posed by COVID-19

It has been estimated by the NLI Research Institute that the COVID-19 state of emergency, if implemented through the end of May, would result in...

EU Commission invited the Italian government to extend the ‘citizenship income’

Analysis. Already, the inappropriately named ‘citizenship income’ excludes many people who live in Italy. The ‘relaunch decree’ further...

Female vice speaker

Rep. Kim Sang-hee should substantive vice speaker role When Rep. Park Byeong-seug of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea becomes first speaker of...

DPK's conundrum

Ruling party must show where it stands on former activist With the controversy over lawmaker-elect Yoon Mi-hyang, former chief of a wartime sex...

Singular Korean surnames

By Mark Peterson When I came to understand that surnames in Korea were unlike those in other countries ― a high concentration of the population...

In order to graduate (Park 2)

Casey Lartigue Jr. and Eunmi Park By Casey Lartigue Jr. Yeonmi Park was already on the way to becoming a fluent English learner and public speaker...

In order to graduate (Park 1)

Casey Lartigue Jr. and Yeonmi Park By Casey Lartigue Jr. Two North Korean refugee sisters graduated from college this past February, one in New...

More than ever before, corporate governance matters

By Peter Roff The COVID-19 crisis has likely changed American business forever, as politicians use the deadly pandemic to push for changes that...

Post-pandemic world economic environment

By Chang Se-moon Professor Kwak Soo-il, who is widely respected for his contribution to management science in Korea and is now a member of the...

They paved paradise

By William R. Jones I tuned-into NHK World-Japan, the English-language current affairs TV channel headquartered in Tokyo. By chance I caught an...

Binaural Beats Music Can Reduce Depression

Studies show music can improve mood and reduce anxiety. More specifically, meaningful music shifts our neurobiology, tapping brain systems that...

Ayatollah Khamenei and the 'final solution' in the Middle East

Iran is in trouble, so leader Ayatollah Khamenei is resorting to a well-tested method: He is distracting the people with demagogy, and he doesn't...

The New York Times’ ‘powerful’ front page listing Covid-19 victims is weepy piece of emotional browbeating

New Yorkers woke up on Sunday to find the sun shining, and fewer people dying of the coronavirus than at any point since mid-March. However, they...

Understanding Ukraine and Belarus: The Beginning

The book describes the author's travel, stories and experiences from a student in London to a history professor in Alberta, Canada.

Hong Kong security law is going to devastate its economy

Companies will reject Beijing control and US can withdraw trade privileges

A cold war is heating up in the South China Sea

Washington – I spent most of my seagoing career in the Pacific, and sailed many times through the humid waters of the South China Sea. It’s a big...

Another British scandal, a sleight of hand and the same old story

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, is at the heart of yet another controversy. Earlier this week, British...

It’s Mike Tyson v George W. Bush! Which ‘comeback’ best reveals how a decadent US is in the grip of nostalgia-induced amnesia?

In recent weeks, 53-year-old former heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson has released a series of seconds-long boxing videos that show him...

EU’s fiscal hawks during pandemic: ‘look after yourself next time’

Analysis. Austria, Holland, Sweden and Denmark oppose the Merkel-Macron proposal to deliver relief funds to Italy, Spain and France. ‘If you want...

Bibi Can’t Sell U.S. Jews the Idiocy of Annexation, So He Went to the Evangelicals

Netanyahu has given up engaging with the vast majority of American Jews. But his insane annexation policy is about to become their problem – and...

This Will Be the Heavy Cost of Annexation for the Israelis

South Korea: death and gapjil

Jian Seo and David Tizzard By Jian Seo and David Tizzard If you spend enough time in South Korea, it soon becomes apparent that a hierarchy...

If Trump Loves Jews So Much, Why Does He Celebrate America's Biggest anti-Semites?

When the president praises Henry Ford's 'good bloodlines,' ratifies anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists and legitimizes the scapegoating of...

Care About Palestinians? Don't Vote for Joe Biden. Vote for Donald Trump

Opinion – Thinking about Heroes and Humanity During COVID-19

Even the ones among us whom we would consider the freest because they leave in the free parts of the world are dominated.

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National security law is end of Hong Kong's freedom

China is betraying its promises and trying to instill fear in city

Deadlier than Covid? Medics sound alarm as lockdown suicides SOAR in US – and health officials knew it would happen

“We’ve seen a year’s worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks,” Dr Mike deBoisblanc, lead trauma surgeon at the John Muir Medical...

+ Morda je imela znanost prav, a Odisej je bil zagotovo bolj moder

Pojdimo na globalno raven. Že v prejšnji kolumni sem pisal, da je osrednja avtoriteta na planetu predsednik Svetovne zdravstvene organizacije...

The late Ritsuko Inami had an ingrained sense of human nature

Ritsuko Inami, a scholar of Chinese literature who died last week at age 76, used the Japanese expression "mimidoshima" to characterize her...

Why Japanese seniors are spending their golden years behind bars

Recently, in Five Stupid Ways To Get Arrested in Japan, we mentioned the KDDI caller, a pensioner who was arrested after placing nearly 24,000...

Janez Janša si zasluži boljšo luč

V ponedeljek zvečer smo se mnogi državljani vprašali: le kje mi živimo? Kaj se je zgodilo z narodom, ki je še pred tremi desetletji kazal čisto...

Sunday, Greedy Sunday*

Javna polemika o prepovedi dela ob nedeljah je izčrpala vsa politična, kulturna, antropološka, ekonomska in teološka vprašanja, prav vsa, razen...

V smrtni pasti

Vse bolj je očitno, da mnoge države, v večji ali manjši meri morda vse, v dosedanjem poteku pandemije skrbijo predvsem za zagotavljanje kapacitet...

A misguided feeling of optimism over economy rising among Turks

The BIST100, the Istanbul stock exchange, has risen steadily in third week of May. Since the beginning of the month, the index has increased by 4...

+ O čem sanjajo na desnici

Modri vodja je dajal nejasne odgovore (on bo vedno branil pravico do protestov, a kršilce predpisov je treba kaznovati) in nikomur ni oporekel...

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Coronavirus: China should rein in ‘wolf warrior’ diplomats and let its actions do the talking

In the run-up to the two-day meeting last week of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organisation (WHO),...

Patience, sacrifice and zakat: An Islamic response to coronavirus

Behind the coronavirus death toll numbers are individual stories of trauma and tragedy for family members and friends.  Among the deceased in the...

MBS and the kingdom of fear

21 May marked UNESCO’s World Day for Cultural Diversity and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a heavy contributor of UNESCO, released a beautifully...

Who is to blame for Lebanon's crisis?

Inside a Beirut bank, a security guard wearing a face shield slipped a wooden plank in between the handles of a heavy glass door as a swarm of...

COVID-19 brings renewed urgency to remedies for cholera in Haiti

In an unprecedented move, 14 United Nations-appointed human rights experts sharply admonished the UN last month for denying justice to victims of...

Is there hope for Russian-Polish reconciliation? WWII baggage says no

Three out of four Poles consider “historical issues” as the main grounds for disputes with Russia, according to the report by the Warsaw-based...