Why don’t we get rid of families and cash? Soros-funded progressive globalists using Covid-19 to push own ‘technocratic solutions’

Under the time-honored rubric of "never let a good crisis go to waste," the usual suspects have come out of the woodwork to tout their favored "...

Litzman, Go Home Now

It’s difficult to imagine a clearer expression of the cynicism and disrespect for Israelis that characterizes the establishment of the new...

A Palestinian guide to surviving a quarantine: On faith, humour and 'Dutch Candy'

Call it a ‘quarantine’, a ‘shelter-in-place’, a ‘lockdown’ or a ‘curfew’, we Palestinians have experienced them all, though not at all...

How to prevent outbreaks of zoonotic diseases like COVID-19

By now billions of people around the world are following advice to practise social distancing and "shelter at home" to prevent the alarming spread...

Brad Roberts

China's push to develop intermediate- and medium-range missiles is a growing security concern for nations in Northeast Asia. Meeting this challenge...

Midterm evaluation

Election should be battleground for new visions Only nine days are left before the April 15 general election in the unprecedented situation of...

Oldest border in the world

By Mark Peterson The fifth point on my top 10 list of evidence for calling Korean history peaceful and stable is the nature of the border with...

Pastors who continue to risk lives deserve jail

Scientific research suggests that prayer has the power to calm the mind, increase resistance to temptation and make people happier. One thing...

Worthy paycheck fight

By Casey Lartigue, Jr. If you have been out to dinner with South Koreans, it is likely that you have arrived at The Paycheck Moment (TPM): Who will...

China and America are failing pandemic test

By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. CAMBRIDGE ― COVID-19 is confronting humanity with its most severe test since 1918, when an influenza pandemic killed more...

What can I do?

By William Roger Jones In these times of travail and vexation causing sorrow, pain and suffering one may ask: "What can I do?" I submit that...

In the world’s informal economy, there’s no shelter from the virus

Kuala Lumpur – Locking down India for 21 days may slow the spread of the new coronavirus, but it’s quickening the misery of the hundreds of...

Treasures along the river: The two brothers

The monument at night ― looking toward the Haengju Mountain Fortress. Robert Neff Collection, December 2017 By Robert Neff When out riding along...

What Might Have Been Lost: Fieldwork and the Challenges of Translation

This is an excerpt from Fieldwork as Failure: Living and Knowing in the Field of International Relations. Get your free copy from E-International...

The Lessons Dictatorships Teach Us on the Coronavirus State of Emergency

In her book “Illness as Metaphor” (1978), the essayist and cultural critic Susan Sontag objected to the demonization of cancer, calling it just...

Shut the door on the North’s cyberarmy

Washington – Several times last month North Korea launched a handful of short-range ballistic missiles in defiance of the international...

Haaretz Cartoon

World Bank's 'third shock' threatens to reverse Asia's economic progress

After trade war and COVID-19, continent-wide recession would put millions into poverty

Pandemics and the G20: One last shot at relevance

Canberra – The Diamond Princess was quarantined in February in Yokohama for a month. On March 19, the Ruby Princess was permitted to dock in...

Building on Ruins or Patching up the Possible? Reinscribing Fieldwork Failure in IR as a Productive Rupture

This is an excerpt from Fieldwork as Failure: Living and Knowing in the Field of International Relations. Get your free copy from E-International...

Coronavirus has lit the fuse on a time bomb in China’s economy: debt

The coronavirus outbreak has already taken a great toll on the Chinese economy, with all headline readings pointing towards a record slowdown in...

Coronavirus Plus Oil Crash Could Cost Israel and Iran Their Key Gulf State Contact

The streets of Muscat, Oman’s capital, are strangely quiet. Public transport, places of worship, tourism sites, gyms, malls and beauty salons...

COVID-19 and the 'curb-cut effect'

In nearly every White House press briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic through the first week of March, healthy young members of the general public...

Coronavirus has exposed the diseased heart of the global economy

Many non-Americans (and likely many Americans) would have been amazed at the dirty linen being aired on global news networks over the past...

Can We Trust the WHO?

The most influential organization in the world with nominal responsibility for global health and epidemic issues is the United Nations’ World...

The crucial future of power-sharing in Afghanistan

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Afghanistan Should Focus more on Coronavirus!

DISCLAIMER – The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors. They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of The...

Silver lining in pandemic

Korea can help other countries fight coronavirus The government is still struggling to contain the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak here. Confirmed...

Náš štvrtý apríl

Paradoxne pandémia vyriešila spor o kontroverznom rozhodnutí mestskej samosprávy spred niekoľkých rokov organizovať 4. apríla oficiálne...

Midterm evaluation

Election should be battleground for new visions Only nine days are left before the April 15 general election in the unprecedented situation of...

O zhnitej mrkve a kultúre v čase koronakrízy

Uťahovala si zo situácie, keď esesáci nútili tých, čo boli ešte „k dispozícii“, odvláčať mŕtvoly do pekla. Ženy boli schopné...