My way or the M4-M5 highways

Twist and turns, a sharp u-turn, a clean break, starting over -you name it. These all may depict maneuvers of some sort, and yes you guessed right,...

Aydin Selcen

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(BRANJE) Hojladrija blasfemija

Ko je pred dnevi za govorniški oder državnega zbora prišel poslanec Levice Primož Siter v majici ameriške glasbene skupine Bad Religion s...

Matjaž Gruden

10

The White Swans of 2020

NEW YORK – In my 2010 book, Crisis Economics , I defined financial crises not as the “black swan” events that Nassim Nicholas Taleb described in...

Nouriel Roubini

10

China was wise to let markets stumble

Avoidance of intervention shows government is placing more faith in investors

Fraser Howie

10

Epidemics political as well as medical

By Tom Plate The creepy coronavirus out of Wuhan is obviously one tough enemy of the people, as those doctors of medicine with the tired microscope...

Tom Plate

10

Movie magic

By John Burton Hollywood producers call it "capturing lightning in a bottle" ― trying to create a film with unique characteristics that...

John Burton

10

Did pope acquiesce to conservatives on married priests?

By Michael McGough Conservative Catholics, including some critics of Pope Francis, are doing a victory lap because the pope has not, as expected,...

Michael Mcgough

10

¿Quién debería ser Secretario General de la OEA?

Para responder a esa pregunta ayudaría recordar cómo se creó el Grupo de Lima. De un lado, ese grupo fue fundado por 14 Estados. Es decir, por...

Farid Kahhat

8

New THAAD controversy

US should not undermine alliance with Korea The tricky issue regarding the U.S. deployment of an anti-missile battery in South Korea is likely to...

Editorial

10

Palestinian prisoner Khalida Jarrar in her own words: The age of freedom will come

Khalida Jarrar is a Palestinian feminist, a lawyer, educator and an elected parliamentarian. Over the years, she came to symbolize Palestinian...

Khalida Jarrar

10

France gave asylum to ‘political martyr’ Pavlensky, but it got an unstable anarchist instead

Pyotr Pavlensky, the attention-seeking Russian ‘anarch-artist,’ who recently fell out of Paris’ favor for releasing kompromat on a public...

Damian Wilson

20

Defeated, Humiliated, Pleading

“Peace is made only with defeated enemies.” That was the message of giant billboards that were hung around Tel Aviv last week. The ads showed...

Odeh Bisharat

60

Has Rodrigo Duterte squandered his one chance to transform the Philippines?

On Monday, February 10, Philippine Solicitor General Jose Calida filed a “quo warranto” petition against ABS-CBN – a perceived critic of...

Karim Raslan

90

Social Democracy Beats Democratic Socialism

CAMBRIDGE – It used to be an unwritten rule of US politics that a socialist could never qualify for high national office. But now a self-proclaimed...

Daron Acemoglu

40

‘OK, Boomer’ mentality: Academics want to label old age a disease, in case you had any respect left for the elderly

In their wisdom, 30 experts – from prestigious universities like Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cambridge Imperial and UCL – have decided that ageing is...

Frank Furedi

70

Approval of satellite party

It's up to voters to judge which side is right in April 15 election The National Election Commission (NEC) has approved the registration of the...

Editorial

10

Turkey-Syria crisis points to risky post-American Mideast

LONDON – In parts of Syria dubbed “de-escalation zones” by the government, what could yet prove a new regional conflict is escalating fast....

Peter Apps

10

The first offer is the best offer in negotiations

A small meeting was held last Friday at the Japan Arab Association for its 171st issue of The Arab Quarterly magazine. The association, established...

Kuni Miyake

10

A new place for Tokyo on the international stage

Last weekend, more than 450 national security experts descended on the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany for the 56th Munich Security...

Brad Glosserman

10

Strong liberal arts education is key to success in Society 5.0

KIZUGAWA, KYOTO PREF. – High school students nowadays are divided into two courses in their second year: humanities and natural sciences. The...

Takamitsu Sawa

10

Who Can Beat Trump?

WASHINGTON, DC – The US presidential election in November is the most consequential in modern history. Whether the increasingly authoritarian,...

Elizabeth Drew

10

Independence for French Workers — and the Military

In a country whose population has been famous for demonstrating at the drop of a hat, ever since Parisians assaulted the Bastille in 1789, the...

Deena Stryker

10

Giving Up!

Is there anyone, in one situation or another, who has not given up? The words used may be different: “I just give up,” “I give this up,” or...

Betty Luceigh Phd

10

With prosecutor retirement issue, Abe ignores rule of law, again

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's response to criticism about his Cabinet's decision to postpone the scheduled retirement of a top public prosecutor seen...

Editorial

10

Gogol tale of politicians’ fear of investigation resonates today

Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852) penned a satirical play whose title is translated as "kensatsukan" (public prosecutor) in...

Vox Populi

10

By Inviting Placido Domingo, Israeli Opera Proved It Has a Lot to Learn About Sexual Harassment

The Israeli Opera is making efforts to remain relevant, but it’s enough to glance at their embarrassing PR announcement welcoming opera star...

Shira Makin

10

Impeachment energizes Trump, drains Democrats

CANBERRA – At this point in the four-year U.S. presidential election cycle, the 2020 election is President Donald Trump’s to lose. In parallel,...

Ramesh Thakur

10

Meaning of impeachment

By Arthur I. Cyr Only the third impeachment trial of a president in our history. These are the sort of words used by various media people to...

Arthur I. Cyr

10

Is political change coming to China?

By Yuen Yuen Ang ANN ARBOR ― In contemporary China, profound political transformation can ― and has ― taken place in the absence of regime...

Yuen Yuen Ang

10

Transgender Korea: The body as a battleground

By David Tizzard and Han Jeongmun Han Jeongmun and David Tizzard Dr. Kim Seok-kwan is a name that many might not know, but he is a revolutionary...

David Tizzard And Han Jeongmun

10

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Editor in Chief

Benjamin Netanyahu: “I met with Eli Azur,” owner of The Jerusalem Post and Maariv. “I told him the following, and listen well: ‘How you’ve...

Raviv Drucker

30

Who is to blame for Tunisia’s political stalemate?

On Friday evening, Tunisia’s Ennahda movement announced its withdrawal from the talks on the formation of the government. “Ennahda has decided not...

Motasem A Dalloul

40

Merkel’s defence of Israel’s war crimes undermines the ICC and the rule of law

Shortly after her visit to South Africa earlier this month, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government made a shocking announcement in defence...

Iqbal Jassat

30

Sudan moves to distance itself from Gulf regional powerhouses

The exuberance of Sudan’s revolution that overthrew long-serving dictator Omar Al-Bashir has died down after a series of disappointing moves that...

Anjuman Rahman

20

Tesla and SpaceX: What America Still Has to Offer

Washington and Wall Street and the collective international order they’ve built over the decades following the Second World War appear to have...

Ulson Gunnar

20

Stop Blaming Poland for the Second World War

Shlomo Avineri's recent article on Poland's "responsibility" for the outbreak of WW2 (Germany Is Guilty – but Russia and Poland Both Bear...

Sławomir Dębski

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Doctors aren’t enough – to fight the new coronavirus, we need an all-of-science response

In April 2019, humanity saw what was previously thought unseeable when Nasa released our first picture of a black hole. Black holes are so dense no...