Japan’s problem with puppy farms

Puppies, kittens, hamsters, bunnies and a ton of other fluffy creatures that you don’t even know the name of. Take your pick, I’m guessing you...

Mental Illness Adds Value to Our Lives

Many people think as mental illness as detracting from their lives. Mine did at first. For a number of years.  I lost a career due to the...

To resolve the Palestinian question we need to end colonialism

Amid a global pandemic, economic recession and simmering racial tensions around the world, Israel's threat to formally annex parts of occupied...

Prosím, adresnejšie!

Minister práce Milan Krajniak chce dôchodcov vyplatiť tak, ako len pôjde. Neprekvapuje to, veď práve Sme rodina hlasovala pred voľbami so...

Donald Trump's White House would strangle Hong Kong to hurt China

Idea to end city's currency peg is one face of president's economic war on Beijing

Seeds of Hope: How Tahini Became a Symbol of LGBTQ Rights in Israel

Splašená vláda

Lenže už po ústupe prvej vlny a návrate takmer do štandardných pomerov sa riadenie štátu nezlepšilo. Je zrejmé, že táto konštelácia...

Israel is a settler colony, annexing native land is what it does

The international rejection of Israel's plan to formally annex even more Palestinian land is based on two arguments: the annexation is a violation...

Why Trump is right and wrong about America

President Donald Trump is right to be mad. Americans, who voted for him in 2016, are abandoning him in droves. Instead of rewarding him for...

Thou shall not erase me

Statues of whiteness everywhere must fall - not because they offend some of us, but because the ideological deafness that erected them is a license...

In India, merely saying 'Black Lives Matter' is not enough

In the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests which led to growing calls for abolishing the police and demilitarising communities in the United...

In Srebrenica, a new war is waged

On October 15, 2019, my appointment as the director of the Srebrenica Memorial Centre was to be made official. As I was leaving the campus of the ...

Torture casts a shadow over the G20

This year, Saudi Arabia is holding the rotating presidency of the Group of 20 (G20), the world's largest economies. The kingdom will use its...

Erdogan Turns Hagia Sophia Into a Mosque: A Troubling Triumph for Turkey's President

‘Hagia Sofia first, then Al-Aqsa’: Erdogan’s decree is a personal ideological triumph that won him global Islamist plaudits and muted...

‘Optimism of the Will’: Palestinian Freedom is Possible Now

In a recent TV discussion, a respected pro-Palestine journalist declared that if any positive change or transformation ever occurs in the tragic...

Charm of K-drama

By Mark Peterson Okay, call me slow. Yes, I know everyone else has been talking about K-drama forever. But I've finally gotten on board. The key to...

Deregulation key to reviving economy

By Choi Sung-no People have high hopes and expectations for the 21st National Assembly which kicked off its four-year term May 30. For their part,...

Beijing's crackdown on Hong Kong is dangerous for the world

By Trudy Rubin When China imposed a draconian new security law on Hong Kong early this month, I grabbed my phone to call some young pro-democracy...

Punitive taxes insufficient

Increase home supply to curb speculation The Moon Jae-in administration announced its 22nd set of anti-speculative housing measures Friday to put...

Terms of resuming dialogue

North Korea calls for US to drop 'hostility policy' It is still premature to expect North Korea to return to nuclear talks with the U.S. anytime...

Our crucial Supreme Court

By Arthur I. Cyr "Judges are not politicians in robes." Judge Neil Gorsuch, nominated for our Supreme Court in 2017, used that phrase to emphasize...

Why Never Trumpers Bill Kristol and The Lincoln Project Won’t Ever Mention Israel

Viral ads by two Never Trump groups, the Lincoln Project and Bill Kristol’s Republican Voters Against Trump, get rave reviews. But they're far...

Ballot box as Pandora's box

By Michael Shannon You can add another item to the list of shortages in our current age of the China flu. Political trust is harder to find than...

Returning to Chajsy, Belarus: Back to Stalin

The problems faced today seem even more complex than in the late 1980s when Gorbachev opened up society. In retrospect, there was more opportunity...

If there’s a Cold War 2.0, it will be fought online and in the Pacific

Commentary. The epidemic has led to broad reflections on the confrontation between China and the United States. In reality, the current situation...

'Take a step toward democracy': Why a special election is absolutely necessary

People walk beside the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, with the U.S. Capitol and Washington Monument seen behind, in Washington, DC, July 10,...

Latin American political leaders cannot escape COVID

Report. After Bolsonaro, the Bolivian president Áñez and Maduro’s right-hand man have both tested positive. The situation in many cities is past...

For MOSE, the real test is climate change

Analysis. On Friday, with the world watching, Italy tested its MOSE system, a barricade designed to block the sea from swallowing Venice. They may...

Recollections of remarkable Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon

A general view of the public memorial for late Seoul mayor Park Won-soon in Seoul on July 11, 2020. AFP By Emanuel Pastreich Mayor Park Won-Soon...

+ Krivičniki vseskozi mislijo, da so pravičniki

Redkokdo se, recimo, sekira zaradi svojega današnjega prispevka k onesnaževanju, k pobijanju živali ali k poglabljanju svetovne revščine....

+ Pravice drugih lahko čutimo kot krivico do nas

Pogosto si predstavljamo, da nam kot ljudem, ki se rodimo v "ta svet", "ta svet" tudi nekaj dolguje in nam mora to zagotoviti. Svet je krivičen do...

+ Janšizem in demagogija

Biti demagog v parlamentarni demokraciji, da o drugih oblikah vladavine niti ne govorimo, je veliko lažje, saj je mogoče izkoriščati vse ovinke...

In Hong Kong’s national security law era, echoes of Northern Ireland’s Troubles

Over the months of Hong Kong’s current crisis, one particular statement from the government in Beijing intrigued me: the repeated assertion that...

Genocide denial concerns us all

Protecting the truth from deniers and serving justice for the victims of the Srebrenica genocide is our best bet to prevent genocides from...

+ Realnost prejšnjega režima: Konsociacija – narava politične ureditve Jugoslavije

V političnem diskurzu na Slovenskem (in drugih državah naslednicah Jugoslavije) ni redko slišati zanikrne govorice o Jugoslaviji, predvsem o...

+ Aleskinderandiveltsindglajh

Bilo je v sedemdesetih, ko se je enkrat letno pripeljal iz Bavarske, da preživi nekaj dni med nami, socialističnimi domorodci; potem pa se zapelje...

Why ‘big-boned’ policy measure has come to lose its meaning

The government’s annual “Basic Policies for Economic and Fiscal Management and Reform,” known as “honebuto hoshin” (big-boned policy...

Velik korak za diplomacijo

Danes, 11. julija, bodo v Potočarih obeležili 25. obletnico smrti osem tisoč tristo dvainsedemdeset Bošnjakov, ki so jih med 11. in 22. julijem...

Pošast koronakomunizma blodi po Evropi

Na svetu ni naključij. Še manj v politiki. Najmanj pa v našem političnem prostoru. Najprej smo se smejali in zgražali nad poslancem Marijanom...

Kratka zgodovina neumnosti

Pred štirimi meseci je ves svet govoril o neki novi skrivnostni bolezni s Kitajske, ki je v nekaj tednih pol Evrope zaprla v karanteno. Bolezen je...