The coronavirus has shown us the global economic system is no longer fit for purpose

By now, three hard truths about the Covid-19 crisis should have become apparent to policymakers around the world.The first is that every major...

Donald Low

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Haaretz Cartoon

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Eran Wolkowski

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Will Europe Lead or Lag?

Ps Commentators

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Kakšen novi kapitalizem je pred nami?

Ta kriza, čeprav sprožena brez nekega posebnega notranjega razloga, vseeno utegne imeti dolgoročnejše posledice na prihodnost kapitalizma. Zgodila...

Jože P. Damijan

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Tokyo202ONE: The potential to be the greatest ever Olympics

Tokyo will be my 20th Olympic Games. Ever since Sarajevo 1984, I have worked with every organizing committee, attended every Games, and experienced...

Japan Today

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Setting the Worst Example

Kahol Lavan chairman Benny Gantz’s official excuse for breaking his election promise – which was not to serve in the same government with Prime...

Haaretz Editorial

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‘America First’: Covid-19 exposes cracks in Trans-Atlantic solidarity as US snatches up France-bound masks

As the coronavirus spread across the West, borders were slammed shut, followed by businesses and finally private homes, all in the hope of slowing...

Nebojsa Malic

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Ventilators by Cloak-and-dagger

The Mossad is the new Red Cross. Tuesday’s episode of the investigative journalism series “Uvda,” on Mossad operations to bring medical...

Gideon Levy

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It’s Time to Let Litzman Go

I didn’t watch “Game of Thrones.” I tried. At a certain point, after enough murder and treachery, I stopped caring. Israeli politics has the...

Zehava Galon

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Palestinian prisoners simply don’t matter to Israel’s security narrative, even in a pandemic

Unsurprisingly, Israel has not heeded requests to safeguard the health of Palestinian prisoners in its jails. Besides recommending “precautionary...

Ramona Wadi

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The Priority for the Social-Distancing Period

MILAN – The coronavirus has a chokehold on the global economy. Like many friends and colleagues in China, I, too, have been locked down, along...

Michael Spence

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China and America Are Failing the Pandemic Test

CAMBRIDGE – COVID-19 is confronting humanity with its most severe test since 1918, when an influenza pandemic killed more people than died in...

Joseph S. Nye

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The Lethal Threat of COVID-19 Isolationism

BERLIN – Under President Donald Trump, the United States is not actively seeking cooperation with other countries in combating COVID-19, leaving...

Sigmar Gabriel

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The problem with army enforced lockdowns in the time of COVID-19

There is a sketch doing the rounds on Twitter: Two people standing in the centre of a hallway, back towards one another, each struggling to push a...

Karsten Noko

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Tackling Climate Change with COVID-19 Urgency

DUBLIN/CAPE TOWN – In recent weeks, the world has been focused on urgently battling the fast-evolving COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health...

Mary Robinson

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COVID and the Terror of Uncertainty

There are two worlds, in a way never before imagined, one of people and jobs, of life and experience, the other a shadowy world of deceit and...

Gordon Duff

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With the World Pre-occupied With Coronavirus, Israel Pushes a West Bank Land Grab

An emergency unity government to confront coronavirus: that’s been Benjamin Netanyahu’s pitch to his rivals in Kachol Lavan since Israel’s March...

Evan Gottesman

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As India locks itself down over coronavirus, West’s bias factory is working overtime

This was one of the milder measures that the government of Narendra Modi has taken to stop the pandemic from spreading across India’s massive...

Abhijit Majumder

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End of bizarre deal

Defense cost talks leave deep scars in alliance South Korea and the United States have finally reached an agreement on how much Seoul should pay...

Editorial

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Reassessing online games

Industry participates in WHO's social distancing campaign Almost all industrial sectors are reeling under the new coronavirus shock, but a few...

Editorial

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Netanyahu Is a Colossal Failure. But Against the Coronavirus, He Is All Israel Has

Americans Jews do not understand what I refer to as the "Netanyahu paradox." And, in some measure, neither do I. The paradox is this: Benjamin...

Eric H. Yoffie

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Plague: saving the old

By Gwynne Dyer The basic choice all along with COVID-19 has been: Do we let the old die, or do we take a big hit economically? So far, the decision...

Gwynne Dyer

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The Trump Presidency Turns Deadly

WASHINGTON, DC – For the first three years of his administration, US President Donald Trump focused on consolidating power. And yet, as the...

Elizabeth Drew

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How Democracies Can Beat the Pandemic

VIENNA – Europe is experiencing one of its worst crises since World War II. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, its countries should turn to a...

Maciej Kisilowski

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Policy goal: How to get from good to great

As Japanese and global policymakers are rushing to design policies to counter the looming economic depression, advice from one of my favorite...

Jesper Koll

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Leadership and crisis

By Arthur I. Cyr "So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." This quotation is from the...

Arthur I. Cyr

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Developing vaccine against COVID-19

By Jerome H. Kim, MD Modern vaccine development has been a success, saving 2.5 million lives annually, improving the quality of life, educational...

Jerome H. Kim, Md

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Trump's losing blame game

By Vali Nasr WASHINGTON, D.C. ― A pandemic is enveloping the world, endangering the lives and livelihoods of millions of people, and U.S....

Vali Nasr

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World must act now to protect Asia's most vulnerable from COVID-19

Coronavirus threatens economic, social and medical well-being of millions

Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana

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Un mundo desconocido para México

Tres expresiones resumen el desencuentro que caracteriza a la economía del país en la actualidad y que explican la parálisis (estancamiento con...

Luis Rubio

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Protección de datos en la batalla contra el coronavirus

En la desesperación, la agente se aferra a cualquier cosa que parezca una tabla de salvación. En la lucha contra el invisible coronavirus, esa...

Marcel Fürstenau

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Identifying Einstein

Germanness and Jewishness have each been impossible for centuries of European history. In a time when political legitimacy meant a nation-state,...

Michael D Gordin

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Coronavirus Impact on Environment

More than 930000 people around the world are affected by novel coronavirus out of which more than 47000 people have died and more than 194000...

Mohammad Alkozay

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Matovičova koaličná poistka

To, že všetkým doterajším vládam pri prijímaní takýchto dohôd stačili podpisy lídrov koaličných strán, nepredstavovalo žiadny...

Marián Repa

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Dočasné prímerie s COVID-19?

Už týždne drankáme od Číňanov všemožný zdravotnícky materiál, no keď priletí z Pekingu zásielka, tak ho ofrfleme. Premiér by ho už...

Martin Krno

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Chances for EU despite the coronavirus pandemic

The countries of the Western Balkans and the EU's Eastern Partnership could benefit from the slowdown of globalization during the pandemic, Radu...

Radu Magdin

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#dieforthedow? Not Me.

Hello, my name is Carrie and I’m high risk. Right now, like many high-risk individuals, both young and old, I’m concerned about COVID-19. I have...

Carrie J Knowles

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The emerging role of Iran in the Middle East

Iran officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country located in west Asia commonly known as the Middle East. Iran is ethnically and culturally...