Cashin’ in on wokeness: Glamour mag praised slim, now celebrates ‘body positive’. One thing unchanged, women’s looks targeted

The ‘self-love’ issue features cover stars including Sophia Hadjipanteli, owner of distinctively bushy eyebrows and founder of #UnibrowMovement,...

Chaos nás neminie

Ak je naša dedukcia správna, tak šéf SNS naznačil, že polarizácia medzi centristickými liberálmi a kotlebovcami môže viesť k povolebnému...

Indonesia's Jokowi must use popularity to remake the economy

President has numbers in person and in parliament to pass radical reforms

Uphill battle against virus

Tighter quarantine needed to prevent local infection It is getting harder and harder to contain the spread of the new coronavirus here. The...

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Bloomberg's debate falls short of his ads' promise

By Martin Schram This we know: $300 million worth of TV and digital media ads, gushing into our homes and across our news screens, can rocket even...

Find value in our lives

By Michael P. Downey Ah well, it was a huge night at the Oscars with Bong Joon-ho sweeping the major categories, including best picture and best...

Moronic fan minority undermine their own legitimate points

This week has seen good and bad from German football fans, as solidarity against racism was followed by a brainless banner. It's right Gladbach...

Európske spojenectvá

"Po prvý raz nebola problém len V4, ako to zvykne bývať, ale 17 krajín si udržalo jednotný postup. Jedným hlasom sme oznámili, že...

Samsung's bid for transparency

IT giant names outside director as board chairman Samsung Electronics' appointment of an outside director as board chairman is a step in the right...

Slovenské poľnohospodárstvo: Nahota, drahota

To, čo sa odohralo v priebehu posledných tridsiatich rokov, nemá azda obdobu v celej Európe. Krajina, ktorá prešla strastiplnou...

Longest dynasties

By Mark Peterson I've written about this previously, but the more I think about it, and work on it, I find new dimensions to the idea. Almost all...

Bong Joon-ho for president?

Bong Joon-ho, director of Oscar-winning "Parasite," laughs during a press conference in Seoul, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020. Bong said Wednesday "the...

China's digital revolution in bank lending

By Huang Yiping BEIJING ― China's economy is growing at is lowest rate in over 30 years, but if the country's nearly 40 million small and...

From Japan to the United Kingdom, the world loves hosting U.S. troops

NEW YORK – The United States has a global military footprint that is second to none, and one of the most visible aspects of that footprint is a...

I want to believe

By Adam Borowski "I want to believe" ― the famous poster hanging on the wall of Fox Mulder's FBI office. I have been fascinated by the...

We Arab Americans and Muslims Are Voting for Bernie. Because He's Jewish

I'm a Palestinian Arab American. My father is a Palestinian Christian. My mother is a Palestinian Muslim. (They're hippies, obviously.) Both of my...

Trump Visits India: Shared Values and a Humiliation for Unhinged Modi Haters

Opinion makers, especially in Israel, should be careful not to fall prey to the propaganda of India's opposition circles against Prime Minister...

John Pilger: Julian Assange must be freed, not betrayed

People will carry pictures of the Australian publisher and journalist Julian Assange who, on 24 February, faces a court that will decide whether or...

Coronavirus: to Chinese democracy what Chernobyl was to glasnost?

The novel coronavirus outbreak has become a major test of just how much China has and hasn’t changed since the severe acute respiratory syndrome...

Can Michael Bloomberg make America proud again?

BERLIN – One long-held truism of American politics held that no woman, no black and no Jew needs to try to run for president of the United...

NATO and the UN must decide if they are standing by, or simply bystanders

Tensions have risen rapidly in north-west Syria following the killing of yet another Turkish soldier by Russian-backed regime forces. The Turkish...

The coronavirus scare in Seoul: how viral hysteria kills science and policy

A worker wearing protective gear disinfects chairs as a precaution against the coronavirus at a subway station in Seoul, Friday, Feb. 21, 2020. AP...

‘Office’ star John Krasinski has to defend himself from the worst accusation in modern Hollywood — being a conservative

‘The Office’ star Krasinski has been on the defensive while making the promotional rounds for his latest film, ‘A Quiet Place Part II’, which...

Big data won’t save you from COVID-19

NEW YORK – How often do you see a piece of economic or financial information revised upward by 45 percent? And how reliable would you regard a...

Does Bernie Sanders Really Have a 'Principled, Progressive' Foreign Policy?

What would a progressive foreign policy actually look like? With Sen. Bernie Sanders near the top of the Democratic field, this question suddenly...

Persecution in the Spirit of the Times

Deputy Attorney General Raz Nizri ordered a criminal investigation on Thursday against left-wing activist Jonathan Pollak for an article he...

Should We Trust Washington's "More Peaceful" Approach to Central Asia?

In spite of promises made by US President Donald Trump during his previous election campaign about focusing on the internal problems of the United...

Coronavirus Inflames Israel's Endemic anti-Asian Racism Problem

Of the many places I’ve traveled to and lived in, never have I experienced more racism than in the Middle East, and more specifically, in...