When Palestinians Dehumanize Jews, the Israeli Left Is Silent

Jewish settlers were filmed at a Palestinian wedding. Their host was fired by Fatah and denounced for facilitating a 'despicable act.' Why won't...

What can we learn from Asia’s election season?

This year, India, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia all held elections. About 1 billion voters were involved, all within a few weeks of one...

The Israeli Opposition's Real Problem

If the leaders of Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan party want change, there will be change. To our regret, however, they want to be Likud’s Siamese twin

To ni vic o policajih

Minuli teden je Ljubljano večkrat nenadoma napadla ploha in poleg vrtnih kumaric namočila tudi ceste, kar je še posebej neprijetno za ...

The media has a big problem: Who will pay for the news?

News organizations are being challenged by technology giants and unsettled by a broader lack of trust but they have a much deeper problem: most...

China earthquake quake kills 11, injures 122

THE toll from a strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest China rose to 11 dead and 122 injured on Tuesday, as rescuers pulled survivors from...

Japan and the limits of liquidity

Israel’s increasing concern about Hamas’s growing naval capabilities

 Israeli circles have demanded that a large-scale military naval operation be carried out in Gaza to respond to the growing military capabilities...

Israel Must Let the Foreign-worker Mothers and Children Stay

One hundred female foreign workers, most of them from the Philippines, and their children who were born in Israel are due to be deported this...

Officer who was stabbed had gun stolen, not issued ‘secure’ holster

The opening scene of Akira Kurosawa's 1949 film "Nora Inu" (Stray Dog) starts with this line: "What? A pickpocket stole your pistol?!" The service...

New Zealander jailed for sharing mosque shooting video

A New Zealand man was jailed for 21 months on Tuesday for distributing gruesome livestream video of the Christchurch mosque attacks that killed 51...

Australia’s pristine beaches have a big, smelly problem

AUSTRALIANS love our iconic coastal lifestyle. So many of our settlements are spread along our huge coastline. Real estate prices soar where we can...

After 10 years

Businesses, government should cooperate to tide over crisis "No company can say for sure they will be around 10 years from now." So said Samsung...

Does the answer to our energy problems lie in tiny microbes?

By Younghoon David Kim Such are the dire predictions about climate change these days that there seem to be only two courses open for society:...

Africa's gig opportunity

By Olga Morawczynski and David Porteous TORONTO ― The growth of digital platforms in Africa could offer new opportunities to bridge the current...

U.S. Anti-pinkwashing 'Progressives' Don't See LGBTQ Israelis as Real People, Only Pawns

This year, like last year, I slathered on layers of sunscreen, threw on my group’s wine-colored t-shirt, stocked up on bottled water and headed out...

Israel’s Right Must Stop Splintering – and Reach Out to the Arab Community

The voter who describes himself as center-right has only two options: Likud or the right-wing bloc that must be formed. The right, which has been...

The fate of Japan, and everyone else

WASHINGTON - If you want a peek at the future, try looking at Japan. It’s a sobering exercise. Here’s how economist Timothy Taylor, managing...

Turkey, the S-400 and the new arms sale geopolitics

LONDON - Sometime next month, Russia may begin shipping its S-400 air defense system to Turkey. It is a move that divides NATO, may see the Turkish...

Nations must get past differences to cooperate on the environment

Global environmental problems know no national borders. Efforts by many nations to solve them can be easily gummed up by a small number of...

Xi's visit to North

Meeting with Kim hoped to break deadlock Chinese leader Xi Jinping's June 20 to 21 state visit to North Korea is drawing much attention, as it...

Morsi’s death was a political assassination by a vindictive regime

Mohamed Morsi will forever be remembered as Egypt’s first democratically-elected President, something that his enemies can never take away from...

Economic Lessons From Everest

LONDON – Like many others, I was shocked by recent images showing the size of the queue that formed in May to scale Mount Everest, the world’s...

Success or failure for Abe in Tehran?

NIIGATA - How did Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s first foray as a conflict mediator go when he traveled to Tehran last week? In a joint news...

Don’t blame Trump for Iran’s aggression

WASHINGTON - As U.S. President Donald Trump mulls a comprehensive response to what he says was an Iranian attack on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf...

Boris Johnson: The last betrayal?

LONDON - It is not as if the British nation or, for that matter, any even half-awake observer around the world does not know what they are getting...

Justice for Journalists

AMSTERDAM – It has been more than eight months since Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and critic of his home country’s government who...

Foiling the ‘deal of the century’ is possible

The US has once again started to hint about the postponement of the announcement of the details of the “deal of the century”; it was supposed to...

Does answer to our energy problems lie in tiny microbes?

By Younghoon David Kim Such are the dire predictions about climate change these days that there seem to be only two courses open for society:...

Machines meet the physics of the social

Interview. We spoke with Alessandro Vespignani, whose new book ‘The Algorithm and the Oracle’ examines the predictive abilities of machines....

Revival of rural economy

By Mark Peterson I wrote in November of a trip to visit a traditional village in the rural countryside. I was quite pessimistic and titled my...

Hey, America! We need another baby boom!

By Tom Purcell America's declining birthrate has given me pause. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of babies...

Change and stability

By Arthur I. Cyr W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, the great British musical maestros, declared in their 1882 light opera "Iolanthe" that Great...

When the Deep State Controls Deep Thinking and Russophobia

As citizens interested in policy, we can learn a great deal from the quasi-academic studies on Russian foreign relations strategies. A cursory...

Mongolia Playing Stabilizing Role in Situation on Korean Peninsula

First, a short history lesson. According to records, the relationship between Mongolia and Korea spans 800 years. Mongolian annals from the 13th to...

As Its Economy Tanks, Iran May Have to Talk With America

The regime is growing desperate as the forecasts tumble from a bit of growth to deep bear territory, and other options just aren't there

Palestine: The Arab 'deal of the century'

A man stands charged with biting the finger of another man during a fight. A witness for the prosecution takes the stand, and the defence lawyer...

Hungary’s Mafia State Fights for Impunity

BUDAPEST – Hungary has become a post-communist mafia state. It is led not by a party but by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s political-economic...