American Exceptionalism Strikes Out

BERKELEY – Once again, the United States is standing out as a world leader, but not for any reason anyone would want to emulate. In most of the...

Why did Netanyahu pull back on annexation?

Despite the opposition of many Israeli officials and world leaders, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to be determined to push...

Hong Kong's national security law creates new era of repression

Arrested while campaigning, I saw protesters' bravery in face of Beijing's sweeping powers

Usoda prodanih duš

Uresničevanje programa je ena najpogostejših fraz malih koalicijskih strank, ki so se po lastnih izjavah izključno zaradi tega povezale z...

Israel's Digital Tracking of Coronavirus Patients by Security Service Must Stop

Victorious Koike needs to put her words into action in her 2nd term

Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike was re-elected to her second four-year term in the gubernatorial election held on July 5 amid growing concerns about an...

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Floods devastate Kumamoto amid coronavirus concerns

Japanese tanka poet Akiko Yosano (1878-1942) had a chance to visit Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto Prefecture, with her husband, Tekkan Yosano (1873-1935), also...

Who lost Hong Kong on June 30?

On June 30, a new national security law was enacted in Beijing and immediately enforced in Hong Kong. That was the day when the long-eroding...

Green-energy firms have a human rights problem

New York – Land seizures. Dangerous working conditions. Mistreatment of native populations. For decades, such practices were associated in the...

Japan should continue to speak up on China’s human rights abuses

In recent weeks Japan has taken a stronger stance against the Chinese government’s human rights abuses. Tokyo joined a Group of Seven statement...

Sinking Ships Deserting Rats Before They Are Eaten Away

We have all heard the phrase, “like rats deserting a sinking ship”. It signifies that when a cause is failing, the least committed members of it...

Who Benefits from the Current Mass Demonstrations in the United States?

Today America and Europe in its wake are experiencing nationwide hysteria organized by “liberal political strategists.”  The spark for this...

Watching Hong Kong, thinking Turkey

Have I ever been to China? I mulled the question in my head for a split second and said “yes, indeed” but that was a long while ago and just for a...

Death of triathlete

Violence in sports must not be condoned under any circumstances A young triathlete took her own life June 26 after enduring years of abuse by her...

Fears about second wave

Time to enforce tougher rules against COVID-19 Concern is growing that a second wave of COVID-19 infections might hit the world, and South Korea is...

After the Liberal International Order

CAMBRIDGE – Many analysts argue that the liberal international order ended with the rise of China and the election of US President Donald Trump....

What’s in a name? Princeton University faces its racist past

I am pretty well educated (three degrees from some fancy schools), well traveled and getting a bit long in the tooth. Still, I was stunned last...

Rise of the rest

By John Burton Korea and several other nations in the Asia-Pacific region ― Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, Vietnam and Thailand ― have...

A more humane post-pandemic social contract

New Haven – Never have the complexities of the relationship between human health and economic wellbeing been more apparent than during the...

How Angela Merkel inspires the Japanese

Washington – Germany has always been an inspiration to Japan since the country opened its borders to foreign powers in 1868. Its impact ranges...

Party inclinations

By Jesse Coy Nelson People's attitudes change as they grow older. In the U.S., when it came to Democrats and Republicans, it was said that the...

How to protect refugees in pandemic

By Agnes Igoye KAMPALA ― Perhaps the most effective health interventions in the battle against COVID-19 so far have been behavioral: social...

California adopts America's first zero-emission truck rule

California, again, is leading the nation's fight against climate change. The California Air Resources Board adopted a rule Thursday requiring that...

Will new NAFTA ride to Trump's rescue?

By Andrew Hammond The new United States-Mexico-Canada agreement (USMCA), one of the most comprehensive trade agreements outside the EU, came into...

Why does the Philippines attract financial fraud?

Wirecard is only latest example of Manila being caught up in corporate misdeeds

Banned from Belarus

2010 was a watermark year. The signs for a freer election than in the past had been promising. But December marked a turning point, with candidates...

Covid-19: Learning the Hard Way

Governments, regardless of type, that recognized the magnitude of the threat at the early stages of the outbreak and enforced social isolation...

The paradox of the ravens

Can we learn anything about what makes a raven by looking only at apples? The German-born logician Carl Gustav Hempel (1905-97) thought that, using...

Unboxing mental health

Social anxiety disorder. Obsessive compulsive disorder. Major depressive disorder. Borderline personality disorder. Post-traumatic stress disorder....

Israel Will Continue Its Campaign of Dividing and Conquering Palestinians, Annexation or Not

Israel doesn’t even bother hiding behind the sacred cow of ‘security’ anymore to justify controlling Palestinians’ lives. Even three year-old...

Perfect spies may already be among us: industrial robots

ABDUCTING TAPPYOne dark night in May of 2013, T-Mobile’s top smartphone testing robot ‘Tappy’ was abducted from its Bellevue lab and spent the...

Singapore election must offer new vision for economy

Coronavirus and US-China trade war have exposed city-state's weaknesses