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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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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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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Japanese companies can no longer expect lifetime loyalty from workers

Millennials want career mobility and stimulating work, not slow progress

Nobuko Kobayashi

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Nazaj k temeljem

Nič več ne bo, kot je bilo. Oliver Bogatinov, novi športni direktor nogometašev Maribora, ni bil ne prvi ne zadnji, ki se je s temi besedami uzrl...

Marko Kovačevič

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Hospitals as loopholes

Mass infections continue, requiring drastic measures The number of confirmed COVID-19 patients here surpassed 10,000, Friday, 74 days after the...

Editorial

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The Boredom Pandemic

LONDON – As people around the world find themselves in confinement to control the COVID-19 pandemic, look out for another affliction with an even...

Raj Persaud

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Cancelation of 2020 Pyongyang Marathon

Marathoners kick off their race during the Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon at Kim Il-sung Stadium in North Korea's capital Pyongyang on...

Richard Pennington

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Collective philosophy

By Kim Jong-nam I am currently involved in eight consulting projects for which I am helping to create organizational cultures. The projects involve...

Kim Jong-Nam

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China’s coronavirus ‘victory’ and Britain’s threat of a ‘reckoning’ show two countries out of touch with the post-Covid-19 future

Late in March, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang warned local officials not to hide new cases of the novel coronavirus. His warning sounded more like a...

Rana Mitter

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To the least of these

"… Whatever you did for one of the least of these … you did for me. / Depart [from the presence of God] … you who are cursed / For I was hungry...

Deauwand Myers

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Will coronavirus undermine democracies?

By Trudy Rubin Early last year, Daniel Ziblatt co-authored a New York Times op-ed titled "Why Autocrats Love Emergencies." His thesis now has great...

Trudy Rubin

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As Singapore heads towards coronavirus tipping point, what would Lee Kuan Yew have done?

In a perverse sort of way, Covid-19 is a godsend for the Singapore government.Its slow-motion and calibrated approach to cushioning the...

Pn Balji

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COVID-19 and mass layoffs

Preemptive move needed to prevent sweeping job cuts The worst fears about mass layoffs resulting from the coronavirus shock have become a reality....

Editorial

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Witnessing Wuhan

AUSTIN – Dr. Li, a heart specialist at Wuhan No. 4 Hospital, spent the third week of March preparing for the reopening of the hospital’s...

Tracy Wen Liu

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G20 key to coronavirus response

By Andrew Hammond G20 leaders promised recently to do "whatever it takes" to tackle the coronavirus crisis. With the pandemic spreading, 2020 has...

Andrew Hammond

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Doctors are sending out ‘do-not-resuscitate’ forms telling people like my disabled daughter to sign them, I find that chilling

As the parent of a disabled child, you need to become an expert at juggling all the balls you must keep in the air if you want to become the parent...

Damian Wilson

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Eran Wolkowski

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Japan needs to improve legal system to punish all sexual crimes

It is clearly time for Japan to step up public debate on eliminating sexual crimes, and take steps to ensure that sex offenders are properly...

Editorial

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Justice not being served by legal system that relies on confessions

Pedestrians, especially children, who are constantly at risk of traffic accidents, are the focus of "Jidosha no Shakaiteki Hiyo" (The social cost...

Vox Populi

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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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‘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...