Chance or crisis

Biegun's visit could serve to make a breakthrough North Korea's staunch avowal not to sit down face to face with the United States ― a stance...

+ (POGLED) Ni presenečenj, glupi ali ne

Uf, kakšen teden! Odstop ministra Hojsa in šefa policije Travnerja, pa tudi veleposlanice v Švici Marte Kos. Pa nove omejitve zbiranja na javnih...

Skyscrapers' economic windfalls

Government should not let Gangnam District monopolize development gains of GBC A debate has flared anew on how to share the development gains from...

Haaretz Cartoon

An Interview with Jorge Castaneda

Project Syndicate: As you note in your latest PS commentary, the problems exposed by America’s triple crisis of COVID-19, economic recession, and...

Practicality of philosophy

By Seo Young-hoon I truly enjoy philosophy. To exercise and hone my mind to think and develop an idea or perspective in the pursuit of truth is a...

Supreme Court made wrong call on public aid for religious schools

The Supreme Court last week needlessly poked a hole in Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state." By a 5-4 vote, the court...

'Communication war' with North Korea

By JeongWon Bourdais Park Recent aggression from North Korea, the June 2020 demolition of the joint liaison office, has largely evoked public...

Srebrenica 25 years on, and reconciliation seems impossible

This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in which more than 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were brutally...

Rokyoku: Fresh blood heralds revival of narrative art PREMIUM

Razne vrste ikonoklazma

Uničevanje kipov in slik je zelo stara zadeva. Rimski učenjak iz prvega stoletja Plinij starejši v 34. knjigi svojega Naravoslovja poroča, da v...

Labelling all white women Karens is racist and typical of the sneering woke warriors who think they’re better than you

It’s an equation that makes no sense. Racism plus more racism equals a better world. Yet for some unfathomable reason, it makes sense to the BBC....

Sunken films

The British ocean liner RMS Lusitania embarked on its infamous final voyage from New York to Liverpool on 1 May 1915. Six days later, torpedoed by...

Laughter is vital

In a Monty Python sketch from 1970, a cheesy game show host (John Cleese) asks an ill-tempered, racist, uncooperative old lady contestant (Terry...

+ (ANALIZA) Popolna zmaga Plenkovića

Po nedeljskih parlamentarnih volitvah na Hrvaškem lahko poenostavljeno, a vendar pravilno ugotovimo: zmagovalci volitev so: Andrej Plenković,...

Trump idea of 'National Garden of American Heroes' raises questions

A new national park populated with statues of "American heroes"? The surprise idea, proposed by President Donald Trump over the July 4 holiday...

Netanyahu the Virus Vector

On foreign policy, Biden is worse than Trump

New York – U.S. President Donald Trump is terrible. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is just as bad. In some ways he is...

China’s Himalayan border aggression unrelated to pandemic

Los Angeles, California – As the China-India military standoff along their disputed land border heads into its third month, questions and...

Balkanization is bad for Facebook’s business

New York – The internet, once a freewheeling global network, is becoming balkanized into national spheres of influence. This could be bad for...

COVID-19 offers Japan’s firms a chance to shine

Singapore – Japanese, American, Singaporean and other business leaders, take note. Committing to models of virtuosity, sustainability and the...

Sharing experiences on COVID-19 and building back a better together

By Ganbold Baasanjav The world is experiencing unprecedented challenges arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. With the devastating loss of lives and...

After liberal international order

By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. CAMBRIDGE ― Many analysts argue that the liberal international order ended with the rise of China and the election of U.S....

Mount Rushmore has become a fetish for white nationalists

Commentary. The battle over racist sculptures in the US is a practical one for Trump. He hopes to mobilize enough Republican voters to snatch...

America and China are entering the dark forest

Stanford, California – “We are in the foothills of a Cold War.” Those were the words of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger when I...

India has chosen sides in the US-China tech war

New Delhi ban on Chinese apps after border clash fits into wider conflict

Coronavirus ‘travel bubbles’ must be rooted in science, not politics

As the coronavirus situation in East Asia and Europe stabilises, countries are inventing a new vocabulary to describe their efforts to reopen...

National Security Law: UK needs a new law too, or more firms like HSBC will side with China on Hong Kong

As we move deeper into July, the effects of the national security law are already making themselves felt – not only within Hong Kong, but far...

Europe’s Good Crisis

BRUSSELS – A few months ago, the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the economic and financial crisis it has caused, looked like it might break the...

A V-Shaped Recovery Could Still Happen

LONDON – Since March, I have been more open than other commentators to the possibility of a “V-shaped” recovery from the pandemic-induced...

It’s time for Japan to step up and join nuclear ban treaty

Three years ago to the day, the world's first treaty embodying the notion that no nuclear weapons should be allowed to exist on Earth was adopted...

Bubba Wallace and NASCAR both owe America an apology for the fake ‘noose’ story

President Donald Trump drew media flak yet again on Monday, for asking if driver Bubba Wallace has apologized to fellow drivers and NASCAR...

The Message: West Bank Annexation = Apartheid

On Israel’s bizarre definitions: The West Bank is already annexed

Wednesday, July 1, was meant to be the day on which the Israeli government officially annexed 30% of the occupied Palestinian West Bank and the...

The PA is a willing accomplice in the international subjugation of Palestine

From seemingly defiant rhetoric to the expected capitulation, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has offered nothing in terms of a...

Understanding the Pandemic Stock Market

NEW HAVEN – The performance of stock markets, especially in the United States, during the coronavirus pandemic seems to defy logic. With...

The Epidemic of Police Violence

Problems outlive Tokyo governor’s catchy slogans for fixing them

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike was the environment minister in the summer of 2005 when the name of a campaign she spearheaded became a household...

Chytrák Kollár

Najprv navrhol vlastné odvolanie, čím mnohých doslova šokoval. Také niečo tu ešte nebolo! Potom dal voľný priebeh svojim emóciám a ľudia...

‘Pub shaming’ stinks worse than stale beer. We don’t need yet another thing to divide us and deflect blame from the government

We Brits have a proud tradition of inventing sports. Or, at least, giving sports rules, exporting them around the world and a few decades later...

Democracy Under Siege in America

NEW YORK – Recent challenges to democratic institutions and processes in the United States have raised fundamental political and legal questions...

Panaceas

Objetivos divergentes que pretenden resolver un problema común. Quizá así se podría comenzar a apreciar la complejidad inherente al nuevo tratado...

Israel Hits the Brakes Too Late in Its Fight Against the Coronavirus

La tecnología y las aerolíneas: Estrategia clave para reducir de costos y optimizar la rentabilidad

Durante y después de la pandemia, las aerolíneas deberán implementar una exitosa y sostenible estrategia de reinicio de operaciones recordando...

The Nile water dispute is not a zero-sum game

Negotiations over Ethiopia’s $5 billion Grand Renaissance Dam on the River Nile have reached a critical stage. The project, the construction of...