New strategy needed

Bolder steps should follow rate cut for stimulation The Bank of Korea (BOK) lowered its key interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 1.5 percent...

Half-baked reform

Plan to reorganize taxi industry cannot be win-win formula The Moon Jae-in administration has come up with a proposal to reform the taxi industry...

What’s Next for Europe’s Capital Markets?

LONDON – When the United Kingdom eventually leaves the European Union – assuming it does – it will take Europe’s biggest capital market with...

The Nutrition Challenge

EDINBURGH – It’s easy to think of starvation as a challenge that entered the rich world’s consciousness in the 1980s and was largely solved...

No Economic Peace for Palestinians

TEL AVIV – Last month, US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, unveiled an ambitious plan to strengthen the...

PA corruption and score-settling mars preparation for post-Abbas era

Since late May, the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) have witnessed a sudden emergence of corruption scandals in the Palestinian Authority...

8 years, 6 envoys; what more can the UN do to save Libya?

Between May 2011 and today the United Nations has appointed six special representatives to Libya, from five different nationalities, each serving...

Trump’s tweets, ticks or terminators – which will look most important to historians?

My worry is that no one noticed because Donald Trump’s latest, racism tinged, tweetathon has been monopolising the attention of the media and its...

The Yacimovich Lesson

The resignation of Shelly Yacimovich, one of the Knesset’s most prominent legislators and a leader of the Labor Party for the past several years,...

Be on guard against nature’s dangers

In the traditional Japanese almanac, the 10th or 11th day after the summer solstice is called “Hangesho.” It’s one of the 72 seasonal divisions...

Latest science should apply to anti-quake steps of nuclear plants

A study group at the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) has worked out a draft plan to revise a calculation formula crucial for efforts to improve...

Asia’s Scary Movie

NEW YORK – History at any moment can be understood as a snapshot, telling us where we are, or as a moving picture, telling us not just where we...

Remembering the role Japan played in the Forgotten War

NIIGATA - Next week will mark the 66th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice. On July 27, 1953, representatives from North Korea and United...

Palestinian prisoners need our attention before they die

Since 1967, 220 Palestinian prisoners have died in Israeli prisons. The latest victim is Nasser Taqatqa, detained in June from his home in Beit...

It’s Not Peretz, It’s Netanyahu

From Moon Walk to Space Wars

NEW DELHI – Fifty years after astronauts first walked on the Moon, space wars have gone from Hollywood fantasy to looming threat. Not content...

¿Se termina el éxito económico de Alemania?

La advertencia sobre beneficios es uno de los términos económicos más engañosos. Porque no advierte de un beneficio que una empresa podría...

La escalada gota a gota en el Golfo Pérsico

Mientras el conflicto en torno a Irán se intensifica, el acuerdo nuclear con Teherán corre el mayor peligro antes del cuarto aniversario de su...

The Pentagon’s new nuclear doctrine is scary as hell

It used to be the case that the idea of using nuclear weapons in a real-world conflict was such a taboo idea that no one was ever openly to...

A chance for lift off: Indonesia’s failure-to-launch solar sector

INDONESIA is behind the pack in terms of the adoption of solar power. The world’s fourth most populous country was outside the top 70 countries...

How Africa Measures Up on Governance

NEW YORK – Government ministers are attending the United Nations High-level Political Forum this week to review countries’ progress toward several...

Listen to Mandela

On Jews and Israel, White Evangelicals Aren't One-dimensional Messianic Caricatures

As the editor-in-chief of Christianity Today and the Rabbinic Scholar at the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Chicago, we wanted to add some...

Palestinian prisoner dies in isolation after 15 days without charge

Report. The cause of Nassar Majed’s death remains unknown, but the family of the 31-year-old West Bank man believes he was denied medical care or...

Humanity’s climate ‘carbon budget’ dwindling fast

THE concept of a carbon budget is dead simple: figure out how much CO2 humanity can pump into the atmosphere without pushing Earth's surface...

Rohingya activist says US ban on top Burmese generals a first step

A FORMERLY imprisoned Rohingya activist said Wednesday that a US ban on Burma's (Myanmar) top generals was a welcome first step but urged more...

Bitcoin Is a Fraud, and Let’s Hope and Pray It Stays That Way

For all the hype about cryptocurrencies, no one except criminals and speculators use it. For once, Trump’s got it right

Eichmann, Demjanjuk and Me

Shanghai tech board opens door to broad China IPO reform

Haaretz Cartoon

We've got more newsletters we think you'll find interesting. Please try again later. The email address you have provided is already registered....

Does Facebook’s Libra spell end for some nations’ own currencies?

There are times when money is replaced by something else as a means of payment for goods and services. American tobacco became that “something...

The virtuous cycle keeping Abe in power

It seems that Japan remains unique among advanced democracies, for it does not seem to be suffering from a political backlash against elites and...

Can Israel conceal its crimes by destroying its archives?

In January 2018, 972 Magazine published an article outlining the reasons why Israel’s Chief Archivist Dr Yaakov Lozowick had declared he was...

Japan versus South Korea

By Donald Kirk? TOKYO ― Korean and Japanese relations have plunged to their lowest depths since the Korean War, and there's apparently no...

Why read novels

By Michael P. Downey Why is it that folks write novels and more important, why do others read them? Nonfiction can be informative and educational....

Ice free Arctic: cooperation or competition?

By Alex Gratzek In early May, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attended the Arctic Council's working dinner in Finland where he spoke on issues...

Bus stop in Uljin

By Nam Sang-so Sugok, a farming village in Uljin along the east coast whose name translates to Riverdale, still holds its primeval landscape. The...

Trump is right about one thing: Citizenship is big deal

By Michael McGough In backing down from his plan to include a question about U.S. citizenship on next year's census form, President Donald Trump...

Hunger Strikes, Iran and Universal Human Rights

Much of the news in the west about Iran at present concerns the stand-off between Washington and Tehran. The US has imposed sanctions on Iran after...