Voter disillusion tempered by realism

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party has won a majority of the seats contested in Sunday’s Upper House election along with...

Is Politics Getting to the Fed?

CAMBRIDGE – From the early 1980s until the start of the financial crisis in September 2008, the US Federal Reserve seemed to have a coherent...

You’d have to be mad to think Boris Johnson is the answer to Britain’s problems

Getting his sole challenger Jeremy Hunt’s name wrong has become a national obsession. Mind you, he got his own wife’s nationality wrong when he...

These Children Are Israeli

The shameful operation to deport Filipina workers and their children who were born and educated in Israel has begun. At 5 A.M. on Sunday, Interior...

The last prime minister of the United Kingdom

LONDON - Boris Johnson is what you would get if U.S. President Donald Trump had been educated at Eton and Oxford. Trump’s shtick would fail as...

From 'Ending Iran' to 'No More Endless Wars': Trump's Incoherent Iran Strategy Unravels

Wadi Hummus: Another Israeli celebration of ethnic cleansing

In the early hours of Monday morning, Israeli armed forces began their biggest demolition push since 1967 in Wadi Hummus, in the Palestinian Sur...

What to expect from Prime Minister Boris Johnson?

Tomorrow Boris Johnson will become Britain's Prime Minister. It is a moment which has loomed for years, which Brexit made all but inevitable. Yet...

(VEČERNO BRANJE) Neprostovoljna dieta starostnikov

Štiri paštete, tri žemlje, liter mleka, dve juhi v vrečki in en doručak s pestjo makaronov za nedeljsko kosilo. Ajmoht, dve pesti riža, ena...

Shaked, a Secular Woman, Heading a Political Party? Oh, the Joys of Liberal Fascism

S Johnsonom prichádza chaos

Johnson si stanovil tri priority: vyriešiť brexit, zjednotiť krajinu a zabrániť volebnému víťazstvu labouristov pod vedením Jeremyho Corbyna....

Big data platforms

Key lies in how to develop lasting business models The Ministry of Science and ICT officially launched big data platforms and centers Monday to...

Opposition bloc needs to build on success in Upper House elections

The ruling coalition of the Liberal Democratic Party and its junior partner, Komeito, won more than half the seats that were contested in the July...

Duterte's time runs short to make meaningful change

Send in the clowns… Johnson brings farcical but dangerous dimension to international relations

Of concern is his very undiplomatic blabber-mouth and an incorrigible knack for dropping verbal clangers, rubbing people up the wrong way. Johnson...

China's self-driving car prowess is greatly exaggerated

Arbitri pri nežnej bráne

Kedysi mi etnologička Soňa Kovačevičová povedala, že pre túto hlbokú slovenskú nesúdržnosť každá naša akcia dopadne ako Hviezdoslavov...

Uniká nám dedičstvo, lebo nedbáme o úrodnosť pôdy

Tá tohtoročná viac než ktorákoľvek predtým nástojčivo pripomína, že naše poľnohospodárstvo nie je v dobrej kondícii. Ak nepodnikneme...

Boris Johnson’s ‘can-do spirit’ and mystery tech won’t solve the Brexit border problem

Comparing the impasse over the Northern Ireland border to the 1969 moon landing, Johnson calls for a “sense of mission” to solve the crisis,...

Trump-Khan meeting: What does US want from Pakistan & will Islamabad kowtow to pressure?

By all accounts, Khan’s recent visit to the United States has been a blinding success. The trip started with an official snub from the Trump...

Hong Kong and the broken promise

The Special Administrative Region is in turmoil. For weeks, activists have been protesting against a now withdrawn extradition bill. But the...

Why UK is in 'Brexit bind' over Hong Kong

By Andrew Hammond Relations between the United Kingdom and China are cooling sharply in the wake of the worst political unrest in Hong Kong for...

Age of technology

By Lee Hyon-chol In the age of smartphones, some knowledge we learned at school seems to have become outdated and has faded. That's why a...

Trump: el emperador del caos

El acuerdo nuclear que firmaron Estados Unidos, Francia, Alemania, Reino Unido y Rusia con Irán, mediante el cual se puso fin a tres décadas de...

Los 3 mitos sobre la tecnología NFC

Desde hace ya algún tiempo hemos estado asistiendo a muchas empresas y consumidores en la adopción de nuevas tecnologías en todo el mundo. Esto...

Brexit: Irish Border and Britain’s Fantasy of Taking Back Control

[Lyndall Stein] The burden of history is weighing heavily on Britain as it battles with its fantasies of "taking back control."

Iran and Saudi Arabia's Proxy Wars Have a New Battlefield: Indian-controlled Kashmir

Don’t Fear the Scooter

TEL AVIV – Electric bicycles and scooters are taking a lot of heat. Concerns about traffic fatalities, terrorized pedestrians, and urban...

Update overdue for Diet building to accommodate everyone’s needs

Eita Yashiro, a paraplegic Upper House member, intended to maneuver his wheelchair up the chamber’s center steps to the platform to ask his first...

The new moon race could define our future

LONDON - Fifty years after Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins blasted off for the moon, a new space race is on. It is one that may...

Battle at WTO

International cooperation is key to overcoming Japan The World Trade Organization (WTO) General Council meeting has been opened to review trade...

The road to EU diplomacy in Palestine

Yesterday, the EU issued two press releases. One feigned belated concern at Israel’s demolition of Palestinian dwellings in Sur Baher and how the...

Trump has been (partly) good for U.S. foreign policy

WASHINGTON - The best U.S. presidents are transformational, not transitional. They do not simply shake up the old status quo; they create a better...

U.S. intervention can’t break the Tokyo-Seoul impasse

WASHINGTON - The body language between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and South Korean President Moon Jae-in said it all. Instead of using the Group of...

What does Kushner have up his sleeve now?

The US President’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Special Envoy Jason Greenblatt are due to begin another tour of the Middle East. This time, it...

US repentance on China

By Lee Seong-hyon For the U.S., from a strategic point of view, the most important event that occurred since World War II was the rise of China as...

Japan's third invasion

By Choi Sung-jin Last Sunday, a movie channel reran, perhaps for about the 10th time, "Roaring Currents," a 2014 film on how Admiral Yi Sun-sin...

Boris Johnson's clowning glory

The UK got the news on Tuesday that Boris Johnson is the next Tory party leader and is now set to become the country's new prime minister. Rob...

A surreal crisis in a sinking country

Commentary. The Italian crisis defies the laws of political physics: the government is non-functioning, but it keeps going, while the country slips...

Trump's racist tweets designed to divide the nation

President Trump's racist tweets and comments last week show how low he plans to go and how deeply he intends to divide the nation in order to try...

Trial to open for Maria Ressa, the Philippine journalist critical of Duterte

HIGH-PROFILE Philippine journalist Maria Ressa's libel trial opens Tuesday in a case that press freedom advocates see as government retaliation for...

North Korean leader inspects new submarine as talks with US stall

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a new submarine, paying special attention to its combat weapons systems, a week after the...

Rodrigo Duterte gives defiant State of the Nation Address

Why isn’t Australia in deep space yet?

LAST weekend marked 50 years exactly since humans first walked on the Moon. It also marked Australia’s small but significant role in enabling NASA...

Khan-Trump meeting – will Islamabad deliver to Washington?

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's meeting with US President Donald Trump went smoothly. But the future of US-Pakistan ties depend on...

The US-China Trade War Could Spell Election Defeat for Canada’s Trudeau

The U.S.-China trade war has taken many casualties, but at this point nowhere has this impact been more greatly felt than in Canada. Since...

Can Europe Become a Global Player?

BERLIN – The last five years have not been kind to the European Union’s foreign-policy prospects. A new great-power competition is shunting aside...

Dva Epsteina

Doslej sem poznal le enega Epsteina, Jeana, francoskega režiserja, avtorja skoraj 40 filmov, ki pa se je v filmsko zgodovino zapisal zlasti z dvema,...

What Mahathir’s call for Malay unity means for Pakatan Harapan – and the opposition

Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad’s recent calls for Malay unity may have seemed spontaneous and even off the cuff, but closer inspection...