In Delhi, imaginary knives have now become real ones

If the protests against the  Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in New Delhi and other Indian cities gave people here hope that we have the...

A Message From a Jewish Friend

The leading Democratic presidential candidate sent an important message to Israel Wednesday. Israel would be wise to listen. During the 10th...

Why Malaysia’s ECRL project should go on, new government or not

As Malaysia is plunged into a political impasse after Mahathir Mohamad unexpectedly resigned as prime minister, there are questions on whether a...

Coronavirus-fighting tech is strengthening China's mass surveillance

Beijing's airtight data network combats outbreak but should raise alarms

Thousands of kids skip school for Greta’s address to a huge crowd, amid police warnings and a coronavirus risk. What can go wrong?

As sporting events around the world are canceled and schools across the UK weigh up the prospect of closing their doors for two months due to fears...

Coronavirus anxiety makes me feel my hands are never clean

I'm washing my hands with greater frequency with each passing day. But what's frustrating is that there's no way to know for sure how often I need...

Administration must cushion impact of blanket school closures

As the coronavirus epidemic in Japan continues to spread, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a sudden announcement on the evening of Feb. 27. Abe said...

Words outpace reality in U.S.-India relationship

U.S. strategists have long nurtured hopes of enlisting India in their efforts to contain communism and balance China. Dwight Eisenhower was the...

China’s COVID-19 moment

HONG KONG – Last October, the 2019 Global Health Security Report included a stark warning: “National health security is fundamentally weak around...

Liberal Democracy and Its Enemies

LONDON – When the German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote that, “All power comes from the people,” he went on to ask the rather important...

Peace deal is a leap of faith for the US, but one day the Taliban may win a Nobel Peace Prize

This weekend, the world will be treated to the grand spectacle of US and Taliban representatives signing a peace deal in Doha. With it, the war...

Between Financial Corruption and Political Corruption

Many right-wing voters agree in principle with the advertisement published this week by Israel Air Force veterans, but it’s hard for them to vote...

The True Price of Carbon

NEW YORK – At the center of many policy challenges is a contest between “realists” and “radicals.” That’s true of the ongoing Democratic...

Coronavirus opens the door to deficit flexibility from the EU

Report. The impact of the coronavirus on financial markets and the global economy are forcing European leaders to allow for budget flexibility. ‘...

Pray for a Fourth Israeli Election

Benjamin Netanyahu is doing it again. A big surge toward the end of the campaign and a wild ride on a wave of “the whole world is against us.”...

Listing companies to boycott over Israeli war crimes is a start…

The UN finally published its database this month listing companies which profit from Israel’s brutal military occupation of the West Bank. This...

Iran can’t be trusted to deal with coronavirus

NEW YORK – If the leadership of the World Health Organization can spare a moment from their genuflecting to Beijing, they should direct their...

Beyond RussiaGate: Americans No Longer to Back Deep State Eternal War

America is pushing for a shooting war with Russia over Syria. Though the US is unlikely to support Turkey against Russia and Syria, eventually...

A Pandemic of Deglobalization?

PRINCETON – The outbreak of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, that began in Wuhan, China, may well turn into a global pandemic. Nearly 50 countries...

In Germany, racism is becoming more mainstream

On February 19, a far-right extremist went on a shooting spree in the German city of Hanau, targeting customers at two separate shisha lounges. He...

Atlantic Council lets former organizer of Crimean ‘anti-NATO weekend’ whitewash Ukrainian Neo-Nazis

If you ever needed proof that the think tank business is little more than a cynical racket, this is it. An op-ed that exposes the rot at the heart...

In Mexico, women are hated to death

Earlier this month, a 46-year-old was arrested at his apartment in the north of Mexico City covered in blood. He confessed to killing, skinning and...

Solidarity Now

The threat of a Russia-Turkey-NATO hot war over Idlib is a godsend for US foreign policy

Speculation over what’s to come next has seen #article 5 trending on Twitter in the hours following the attacks, after Omer Celik, spokesman for...

Slavoj Zizek: Coronavirus is ‘Kill Bill’-esque blow to capitalism and could lead to reinvention of communism

The well-grounded medical need for quarantines found an echo in the ideological pressure to establish clear borders and to quarantine enemies that...

Avoid catastrophe

Disruption of healthcare system looms large South Korea's fight against the new coronavirus is becoming more and more difficult as the epidemic...

Unwarranted optimism

Freeze of base rate does not match gloomy growth outlook The Bank of Korea held its benchmark interest rate steady at a monetary policy board...

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Prečo máme ísť voliť?

Hoci existovali vážne pochybnosti, či ľudia, ktorí s demokraciou dovtedy nemali žiadne skúsenosti, sú na takúto zodpovednú úlohou...

Veru máme čo doháňať

Historické skúsenosti naznačujú, že si nepolepšili ani prednostnými hlasmi, skôr naopak. Výskumné agentúry sa v rámci exit pollov veľmi...

Italy’s New Affliction

BOLOGNA – Northern Italy currently is the center of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe. So far, 17 Italians have died as a result of the new...

'Parasite' vs. 'Gone with the Wind'

By Mark Peterson Both Korea and the United States have a history of slavery. They are both very different, and yet, they are both the same. One...

Trump suffers no mental constipation

U.S. President Donald Trump holds a copy of The Washington Post at the White House. AP-Yonhap By Oh Young-jin What was U.S. President Donald Trump...

Vladimir Putin rekindles Recep Tayyip Erdogan's lost love for NATO

The Russian president may have outfoxed his Turkish counterpart in Syria, but he ruined their friendship in the process. And this time Vladimir...

Lebanon is unprepared for a coronavirus outbreak

Lebanon is facing the imminent threat of economic default and ongoing anti-government protests which have failed to abate. These factors have...

Cumplir con las aspiraciones de África

Visitar una escuela en África subsahariana ofrece tanto una visión de esperanza en el futuro como un recordatorio de las dificultades para lograr...

Protección de datos personales, alcances y desafíos

Internet ha revolucionado el mundo, tiene más de 40 años y ha alcanzado más de 2,4 billones de usuarios . Ha sido un periodo de evolución para...

Striking Gold in a Group Home

"Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right." —Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia So often when I...

How Three Elections Exposed All the Diseases Ravaging Israeli Democracy

Israel’s third election in less than a year is nearly here. Save for one lone poll last December, over 70 election surveys show that neither the...

Viral Panic

West's final countdown?

By Joschka Fischer BERLIN ― The year is still young, but its historical significance is already clear. At least as far as the West is concerned,...

The Dongchun Circus ― Korea's oldest circus

By Choe Chong-dae I have fond memories of the old Korean circuses. Circus performances were a great joy, full of laughs and thrills in the 60s and...

Gordijski vozel evropskega proračuna

Dramatična razprava o novem sedemletnem evropskem proračunu v Bruslju je neinformiranega opazovalca lahko zavedla, saj je poudarila interesne...

Impractical manifestation of midlife crisis

By Rich Manieri I bought a BMW. It's a white convertible that screams "Midlife crisis!" from the highest rooftops. Of course, when I bought it two...

Can Dreams Be Prophetic?

In September of 1913, Carl Jung, the great pioneer of depth psychology, was on a train in his homeland of Switzerland when he experienced a waking...

Even NATO is unwilling to touch Turkey’s Idlib mess with a ten-foot pole

Turkey engaged NATO in Article 4 consultations, seeking help regarding the crisis in Syria. The meeting produced a statement from NATO condemning...

Depression and Honesty: A Risky Combination?

According to no less an authority than the ancient philosopher Cicero, “Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing...

What Turkey’s voters dislike most about their parties

If one usually knows what people like about their preferred political parties, one is less aware of what voters dislike about their parties. This...