Conversion Therapy for Whom?

Akutagawa Prize winner makes even horror stories endearing

Natsuko Imamura was a part-time worker when her supervisor told her one day, “You don’t have to come in tomorrow.” She felt deeply despondent on...

Abe to blame for lack of Diet debate on Constitution

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is trying to frame the July 21 Upper House election as a choice between a party willing to engage in debate on the...

America’s abandonment of Palestine is a challenge to South Africa

Is South Africa among those countries which are standing aside as the world is confronted with illegal moves by the Trump administration to...

Improving perceptions of North Korean immigrants necessary for unification

North Korean women cross a road in Pyongyang, Oct. 27, 2018. AP By Timothy S. Rich Since the historic meeting between President Moon Jae-In and Kim...

The solution to Israel’s siege on Gaza is decolonisation

Unemployment in the Gaza Strip now stands at more than 50 per cent. Enforced joblessness is “as high as 69 per cent in the under-26 age...

What can Plato tell us about the crisis of modern democracy?

By Peter Y. Paik Plato, as the founder of Western philosophy, must be regarded as one of the most influential humans to have lived. But while his...

[INTERVIEW] Globalization: Chinese universities develop strong policies

By Hwang Jae-ho Jiang Feng speaks during an interview at the Shanghai International Studies University in Shanghai, China, May 18. Korea has become...

Between life and death: for Miriama Kamara and other refugees, the doors are closed

Reportage. The once welcoming doors to Europe are closing, but the number of refugees streaming across the Tunisian border from Libya are...

Italian government in crisis as Salvini says Di Maio ‘lost my trust’

Reportage. The aftershocks of the Italian Russiagate scandal and the Five Stars’ support for pro-EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen are...

Jaz pa ti pa židana Evropa

V bližini majhnega pravoslavnega pokopališča v osrednji Bosni, na katerem sta pokopana moja stara starša, je pred dvajsetimi leti vzniknil...

Usposabljanje za svobodo

Poznega maja 1983 sem, v svečani uniformi JLA, v Beogradu sedel na avtobus in se odpeljal do Novega Sada, na Sterijino pozorje (SP). Ker so bili...

Srečno, don Gorsky!

Prav tak vroč in suh julijski dan je bil tisto nedeljo pred natančno petdesetimi leti, ko je oče zlezel na streho, da bi postavil anteno za nov...

Evropski vojaški svet

Nemška obrambna ministrica Ursula von der Leyen je ta teden postala predsednica evropske komisije. To v Evropsko unijo prinaša zanimive novosti. Če...

Češka kuga

Predlansko ali pa celo leto pred tem sem zahajal v nek kafič, kjer so za kafiče primerni folklori precej pogosto menjali, kot se strokovno reče,...

Cyprus Rape Case Is Israel’s Latest Dubious Operation

Jason Greenblatt, Trump’s Special Troll to the Middle East

Haaretz Cartoon

Apollo 11’s achievement still dazzles

WASHINGTON - Thirty months after setting the goal of sending a mission 239,000 miles (nearly 385,000 kilometers) to the moon, and returning safely,...

Povinný milodar v kostole? To nejde dokopy

Zväčša stoja v neveľkých obciach, kde prebýva málo „duší“, a tak farnosti mávajú problémy s financovaním údržby, nieto ešte...

What Sudan’s revolution revealed about traditions

“The people are now conscious” is the reoccurring reply from protesters, here in Sudan, when asked about their reasons for demonstrating. “We...

Boris Johnson in Brussels — visibly invisible

Boris Johnson's ubiquity these days can be tiresome. But as a newspaper hack in Brussels he preferred to keep a low profile. Jim Gibbons recounts...

A political bombshell in Kosovo

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has surprisingly resigned after being requested to face a special war crimes tribunal in The Hague. This...

How to Unify the Left and Save Israel

Vsakdan rasistov

Podatki, ki jih navajam s portala Nova24TV, se resda nanašajo name, a poanta je drugje: rasistični novinar/-ka pod imenom Hana Murn je objavil/-a...

Is Labor's New Partner a Bridge or a Barrier for Israel's Left?

The decision by Amir Peretz’s Labor Party and Orli Levi-Abekasis’ Gesher to run jointly in the upcoming election should be judged only by the...

Will migrant children in the US watch Toy Story?

Parents across the United States these days have been taking their children to see the newest US animation blockbuster  Toy Story .  Schools...

The moon now has hundreds of artifacts. Should they be protected?

Three rovers, six U.S. flags, dozens of probes that either landed successfully or crashed, tools, cameras and trash: the moon is dotted with...

This is not alarmist talk: Hong Kong is heading for a breakdown in law and order

Last week in Hong Kong, a well-respected businessman told me that as the city’s recent cycle of violence escalated, he had started receiving...

We’ve Had It With Netanyahu

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will break the record this week for time in office, exceeding that of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. But as...

Israel's Right Wing Is Worse Than Europe’s

The rise of corporate nations

"There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of...

Gradimo našo malo sosesko

"Ljubica moja zlata, kod si hodila?" me je ondan vprašala branjevka na naši mali tržnici v eni od mariborskih sosesk. "Saj veste, obveznosti,...

New international moon race could define humanity's future

Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off for the moon, a new space race is on. It is one that may affect the...

Likely arson at famed anime studio is truly heartbreaking

Producing a TV anime program week after week was considered a venture of unheard-of recklessness when renowned cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989)...

PNG leader wants deadline for emptying Australia asylum-seeker camp

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape called on Australia on Friday to set a deadline for relocating several hundred asylum-seekers who have...

Parties need concrete policies to promote diverse lifestyles

Parties have made noble-sounding campaign promises to support diverse values and lifestyles in their efforts to garner votes in the July 21 Upper...

Central-Bank Catch-22

A Reform Opportunity for the IMF

NEW YORK – This month marks the 75th anniversary of the signing of the Bretton Woods agreement, which established the International Monetary Fund...

Moon, Abe, do some art!

President Moon Jae-in and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan. AP-Yonhap By Oh Young-jin There are some myths...

American women wets take on new war: national political office

By Andrea Plate Retired Lieutenant Colonel Amy McGrath served 20 years in the Marines, flew 89 combat missions and dropped bombs on al-Qaida and...

Trump's racist Tweets: foretaste of toxic 2020

By Dick Polman White racism was at the root of Donald Trump's 2016 candidacy, and so it will be again in 2020. Either we decisively reject it at...

Penta chcela podojiť štát, no narazila

On by však celú vec hnal až na súd, kde by svoje rozhodnutie zdôvodnil takto: „Mám v špajze skvelú čabajku, ale nemohol som si ju zobrať,...

Localization drive

Substituting imports with domestic products is easier said than done Korea's top economic policymaker has expressed determination to localize...

Point of no return

Seoul, Tokyo should refrain from head-on clash South Korea and Japan appear to be approaching the point of no return on their brewing confrontation...

From moon walk to space wars

NEW DELHI - Fifty years after astronauts first walked on the moon, space wars have gone from Hollywood fantasy to looming threat. Not content with...