What Trump leaves unspoken carries consequences

President Donald Trump seems to rarely leave a thought unspoken. Of late, though, it is increasingly clear there are things Trump won’t say — and...

July 2 marks the 70th anniversary of the burning of Kinkakuji temple

Kinkakuji, one of Kyoto's most famous Zen temples, was destroyed in a fire exactly 70 years ago today. Taizan Egami, 84, who was a 14-year-old...

O lepotah in grdotah Slovenije

Ko znancem iz tujine pripovedujem o lepotah Slovenije, recimo o Šunikovem vodnem gaju v Soči ali o milini dvojine, sem vedno nekako ponosna. Ne...

Russia may get Vladimir Putin for life

Referendums can have unpredictable risks and side-effects, as Vladimir Putin may yet discover. He has just had the people endorse changes to the...

In French elections, a green turning point: ‘The landscape is reordering itself’

Analysis. The second round of the municipal elections on Sunday confirmed the polls, with the Greens winning several prominent victories. However,...

‘We will take you to Italy, now sleep’ – the secret shame of Italy’s mass returns

Reportage. Hundreds of refugees were returned to Libyan detention camps to face death and torture after the intervention of private Italian ships...

+ (GLOBALNA ARENA) Razredna vojna zaradi covida

Krizo na območju evra, ki je izbruhnila pred desetletjem, so dolgo prikazovali kot spopad med varčnim severom Evrope in razsipnim jugom. Pravzaprav...

Spanish coal plants shut down, saying the economics aren’t worth it

Report. Since 2018, the price of CO2 in the EU market has risen sharply, reaching a record €30 per ton in 2019, which has made it no longer...

Still not too late for China to rethink Hong Kong law

After Covid-19, universities will play a more critical role than ever

June is usually a period of revelry for many university students. Lecture halls and classrooms are emptied out as undergraduates finish their...

The US-Russia blame game: Afghan Diplomacy Needs to be Active

US and Russia agreed on not accepting or supporting the restoration of the Taliban regime what is so-called “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”,...

Problem-ridden PEFs

Fund managers, sellers should pay price for deceiving investors The Financial Dispute Settlements Committee has told banks and brokerages to fully...

Setback to tripartite dialogue

Progressive union should make compromise A lack of compromise has dealt a setback to the dialogue between unions, management and government. It is...

Haaretz Cartoon

Celebrating July 4th

By Donald Kirk Most people hardly need reminders of their mortality. Mere mortals know there's a time to live and a time to die, but surely a...

China is not the Middle East’s high roller

New York – The emerging narrative of China’s rise in the Middle East as a counter to American power and influence rests on the skewed portrayal of...

Hong Kong national security law: Is China aiming to save the golden goose?

On Tuesday, Beijing adopted a new national security law for Hong Kong. It comes in the wake of several years of continued social unrest beginning...

A More Humane Post-Pandemic Social Contract

NEW HAVEN – Never have the complexities of the relationship between human health and economic wellbeing been more apparent than during the...

Fixing the World Trade Crisis after coronavirus

Is the US using its NATO ally Turkey to counter Russia in Libya? 

Watching the recent military development in Libya, the obvious question is: does the US have a coherent strategy to counter the fast-growing...

Ascendant progressives face three big obstacles

By Chris Reed The emergence of a bipartisan consensus following weeks of protests about racial injustice ― that police departments need either...

Korea's 'Forgotten War' key to future Asian peace

By John J. Metzler Seventy years ago, on June 25, 1950, North Korean troops attacked South Korea launching an unexpected military blitz. Kim...

Hong Kong's young crusaders should stand down to fight another day

By Tom Plate I wouldn't mind being 20-something again. That was about the only time in my life that I considered myself blunder-immune, and ― as...

Politics of upside-down America

By Michael Reagan There was even more yelling and screaming than usual in Washington last week. I'm not talking about the "peaceful" demonstrators...

Political progression

By Alex Gratzek Over the centuries, a positive development among international relations and domestic politics has been the increased respect of...

Strengthening Africa's best pandemic defense

By Assia Sidibe JOHANNESBURG ― COVID-19 is having a devastating impact on the global economy. Like every continent, Africa has been bracing itself...

'Can I trust Korean judges?'

By Song Sang-yep Foreign friends doing business in Korea often ask me "Can I trust Korean Courts?" When we go to a foreign country for the first...

Why has Sisi threatened to intervene in Libya?

Why did Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi threaten to intervene in Libya when it is unlikely that such a threat will be translated into...

A final reprieve for the KSK

The soldiering skills of Germany's elite commando unit KSK are exceptional. But the fostering of far-right extremist tendencies in the unit left...

Shelter in place

While much of the world was adjusting to lockdown and socialising via screens, life went on more or less the same for Vicky Chavez and her two...

Ashoka’s moral empire

In the Khyber valley of Northern Pakistan, three large boulders sit atop a hill commanding a beautiful prospect of the city of Mansehra. A low...

Vilify Netanyahu as Much as He Deserves, but Who Are You Proposing Instead?

Japan, S. Korea should take quick action to defrost chilly relations

When do Japan and South Korea intend to start fixing their dysfunctional political communication system to mend their deeply strained relationship...

Australia's coronavirus response will not help women back into work

Government has directed money to male-dominated industries

The Covid SECOND WAVE is coming. I can’t wait for governments to BLAME it all on you, me and the rest of the p*ssed-off public

Good news, everyone! Covid-19 is over! It’s gone, buggered off back to its lab or bat cave or wherever, defeated by a mighty, amicable and...

Netanyahu Is Lying Again

Annexation Leaves Palestinians Nothing to Discuss

Despite the trust of Haaretz's finest, no phone call from Abbas will overcome Trump’s scorched earth approach to international peace, or the...

How Netanyahu Silenced Israel’s Spies and Soldiers From Dissenting on Annexation

Annexation could set the Mideast on fire. But Netanyahu has kept Israel’s security and intelligence chiefs completely in the dark – and now...

Acelerar la reinvención en tiempos de COVID-19

Si algo nos ha enseñado esta coyuntura sin precedentes que aún seguimos superando a diario es que toda crisis puede convertirse en una...

Why Putin Should Fear Belarus

MOSCOW – President Alexander Lukashenko has been ruling Belarus with an iron fist since 1994. But his grip on the country has weakened...

Pessimistic Israeli scenarios regarding the security situation with the Palestinians

Israeli security assessments revealed that the implementation of the annexation process in the West Bank will lead to the return of individual...

Schizophrenia, Loneliness and COVID-19

I have been fully recovered from schizophrenia for twelve years now. Being in full recovery means that I work and volunteer, and enjoy normal,...

Retail: de la comodidad a la necesidad

“Nada volverá a hacer como antes” es parte de la letra de una canción del cantautor español Dani Martin. Nadie previó de manera certera la...

Taking Climate Risk Seriously

FRANKFURT – COVID-19 has shown how a long-recognized but underappreciated global risk can suddenly materialize and wreak social and economic...

British diplomacy defends Israel and legitimises annexation

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s op-ed for YNet news reflects all that is wrong with speaking out against annexation “as Israel’s...

Afghan Nomads: The Way of Life or an Ethnic Armed Group

In Afghanistan, certain people are usually giving specific perspectives to objections, having links with ethnic and other issues. It is not...

US-China rivalry: it’s not a Cold War, but is conflict inevitable or avoidable?

The United States and China’s strategic competition for dominance and differences in their value systems have fuelled a strategic and ideological...

Florida as a Developing Country

MILAN/HANGZHOU – The COVID-19 pandemic has arrived in waves, starting in Asia, where it quickly spread from mainland China to South Korea, Hong...

Campaign to have Mia Khalifa’s porn videos taken offline does a disservice to the true meaning of ‘justice’

Khalifa has long complained that she made a scant $12,000 off the 11 enormously popular adult videos she made back in 2014, and receives no...