Humanity’s climate ‘carbon budget’ dwindling fast

THE concept of a carbon budget is dead simple: figure out how much CO2 humanity can pump into the atmosphere without pushing Earth's surface...

The Yacimovich Lesson

The resignation of Shelly Yacimovich, one of the Knesset’s most prominent legislators and a leader of the Labor Party for the past several years,...

It’s Not Peretz, It’s Netanyahu

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Does Facebook’s Libra spell end for some nations’ own currencies?

There are times when money is replaced by something else as a means of payment for goods and services. American tobacco became that “something...

Be on guard against nature’s dangers

In the traditional Japanese almanac, the 10th or 11th day after the summer solstice is called “Hangesho.” It’s one of the 72 seasonal divisions...

New strategy needed

Bolder steps should follow rate cut for stimulation The Bank of Korea (BOK) lowered its key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 1.5 percent...

Latest science should apply to anti-quake steps of nuclear plants

A study group at the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has worked out a draft plan to revise a calculation formula crucial for efforts to improve...

Half-baked reform

Plan to reorganize taxi industry cannot be win-win formula The Moon Jae-in administration has come up with a proposal to reform the taxi industry...

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...

The virtuous cycle keeping Abe in power

It seems that Japan remains unique among advanced democracies, for it does not seem to be suffering from a political backlash against elites and...

How Africa Measures Up on Governance

NEW YORK – Government ministers are attending the United Nations High-level Political Forum this week to review countries’ progress toward several...

Remembering the role Japan played in the Forgotten War

NIIGATA - Next week will mark the 66th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. On July 27, 1953, representatives from North Korea and United...

Palestinian prisoners need our attention before they die

Since 1967, 220 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons. The latest victim is Nasser Taqatqa, detained in June from his home in Beit...

Why read novels

By Michael P. Downey Why is it that folks write novels and more important, why do others read them? Nonfiction can be informative and educational....

Ice free Arctic: cooperation or competition?

By Alex Gratzek In early May, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attended the Arctic Council's working dinner in Finland where he spoke on issues...

Bus stop in Uljin

By Nam Sang-so Sugok, a farming village in Uljin along the east coast whose name translates to Riverdale, still holds its primeval landscape. The...

Trump is right about one thing: Citizenship is big deal

By Michael McGough In backing down from his plan to include a question about U.S. citizenship on next year's census form, President Donald Trump...

The Pentagon’s new nuclear doctrine is scary as hell

It used to be the case that the idea of using nuclear weapons in a real-world conflict was such a taboo idea that no one was ever openly to...

The Nutrition Challenge

EDINBURGH – It’s easy to think of starvation as a challenge that entered the rich world’s consciousness in the 1980s and was largely solved...

Rohingya activist says US ban on top Burmese generals a first step

A FORMERLY imprisoned Rohingya activist said Wednesday that a US ban on Burma's (Myanmar) top generals was a welcome first step but urged more...

Eichmann, Demjanjuk and Me

Shanghai tech board opens door to broad China IPO reform

Listen to Mandela

Palestinian prisoner dies in isolation after 15 days without charge

Report. The cause of Nassar Majed’s death remains unknown, but the family of the 31-year-old West Bank man believes he was denied medical care or...

Asia’s Scary Movie

NEW YORK – History at any moment can be understood as a snapshot, telling us where we are, or as a moving picture, telling us not just where we...

Japan versus South Korea

By Donald Kirk? TOKYO ― Korean and Japanese relations have plunged to their lowest depths since the Korean War, and there's apparently no...

Hunger Strikes, Iran and Universal Human Rights

Much of the news in the west about Iran at present concerns the stand-off between Washington and Tehran. The US has imposed sanctions on Iran after...

A chance for lift off: Indonesia’s failure-to-launch solar sector

INDONESIA is behind the pack in terms of the adoption of solar power. The world’s fourth most populous country was outside the top 70 countries...

What’s Next for Europe’s Capital Markets?

LONDON – When the United Kingdom eventually leaves the European Union – assuming it does – it will take Europe’s biggest capital market with...

Bitcoin Is a Fraud, and Let’s Hope and Pray It Stays That Way

For all the hype about cryptocurrencies, no one except criminals and speculators use it. For once, Trump’s got it right