Donald Trump: world’s greatest expert on… almost everything

PRESIDENT Donald Trump raised eyebrows when he told French firefighters to move "quickly" and possibly use aerial water tankers to save Notre Dame....

Trump Now Expects Payback From Netanyahu. It Could Blow Up the Middle East

Why are we so moved by the plight of the Notre Dame?

SCROLLING through news of the Notre Dame fire on social media feeds was like watching a real-time archive of grief in the making, as people...

The Case for a Global Constitution

NEW YORK – In my book The Republic of Beliefs: A New Approach to Law and Economics , I was eager to demonstrate how the methods that have emerged...

We Don’t Need a Bigger Particle Collider

FRANKFURT – Between Lake Geneva and the Swiss Jura, more than 100 meters (328 feet) below the surface, lies a circular tunnel, 27 kilometers (17...

No Democracy Without Peace in Israel

MADRID – Having secured a fifth term (and his fourth in a row) as Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu is on his way to surpassing David...

Time for emerging Asian powers to help set global rules

(BRANJE) Zakaj je nekaterim težko javno razpravljati o evtanaziji?

Zakaj je nekaterim težko javno razpravljati o evtanaziji v javnem zdravstvu? Za mnoge zato, ker menijo, da morajo biti odločitve ob koncu...

The Scariest Thing About Election Day

It may be easy for whites in the U.S. to install cameras in black neighborhoods – but how is it that cameras were installed by Likud supporters...

The new PA government fits the UN agenda for reconciliation and suppression of political

The new Palestinian Authority government has been welcomed by the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov, who...

Trade war with China: US will make sure it causes major ruckus before losing the fight

Just a month ago, the European Union (EU) appeared to have jumped aboard the anti-Chinese bandwagon of the Trump administration, when it labelled...

America’s tactic in Syria

For several months now, the Syrian issue has witnessed a political and military stalemate. The Idlib front has been the same since last...

Trump and Bolsonaro: Much Ado About Nothing?

Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro, the presidents of the two largest countries in the Americas, met in Washington in March, arousing high...

US Coalition Boot Remains on Syria’s Neck

We all have heard enough Trump flip-flops on policy to not get too excited about anything reasonable that occasionally comes out of his mouth. Such...

Ocasio-Cortez Is Right About Cutting Aid to Israel, for the Wrong Reasons

Israel should take advantage of the friendly climate in Washington to engineer convenient cuts, rather than wait for it as a punishment

‘Lupin III’ manga creator never forgot his Hokkaido roots

The hugely popular manga series “Lupin III,” whose eponymous protagonist is an indomitable master thief who never fails to pull off even the...

Musings / March 27, 2019

I once asked Yasushi Akashi, 88, the first Japanese citizen employed by the United Nations, about his struggles learning English. Akashi replied...

Innovation needs to be a Reiwa goal

BEPPU, OITA PREF. - Emperor Akihito will abdicate on April 30 and his son, Crown Prince Naruhito, will ascend the throne on May 1, with the...

We don't need the Mueller report

The Mueller report will fuel yet more controversy about Donald Trump and his administration. However, it confirms what we already know: This...

The Eternally Optimistic IMF

PRINCETON – In April 2018, the International Monetary Fund projected that the world economy would grow robustly, at just above 3.9% that year and...

Nismo sami

Z madžarskim kolegom Joszefom Makaiem sva hodila po Ulici kneza Miloša v Beogradu, ko mu je zazvonil telefon. Šla sva proti skupščini Srbije,...

(VEČERNO BRANJE) Ne pritiski, zgolj sodnikov šov

Danes nič ni več tako, kot je bilo. Kot je bilo v torek. Razen dejstva, da je Milko Novič zdaj na prvi stopnji oproščen umora direktorja...

Ode to our lady of Europe

BERLIN - As I write this from Berlin, I am prostrate before the images of fire, devastation and ash engulfing Notre Dame de Paris — Our Lady of...

How can Israelis celebrate Passover while denying Palestinian Christians the right to travel?

One of the greatest religious stories shared by Jews, Christians and Muslims is the Exodus of Moses and the children of Israel from bondage in...

A symphony of spring

By Park Moo-jong Spring has sprung into full swing with the temperatures rising day by day to a more bearable degree, freeing the people of the...

Memorializing Sewol tragedy

By Donald Kirk The sinking of the Sewol ferry five years ago was one of the greatest tragedies in Korean history. The memory for me, along with...

Kim, returning to military optics, turns up heat

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is cautiously turning up the heat after his unsuccessful summit with President Trump in Hanoi two months ago....

Is the health insurance system fair to all?

The Revised Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Law went into effect on April 1 with the goal of facilitating the acceptance into Japan of...

El juego del Brexit

Un ejemplo pionero de teoría de juegos aplicada al estudio de las relaciones internacionales fue el del juego a dos niveles. En el primer nivel,...

Will there be a War Between the US and the “Iranian Terrorists”?

A visible pattern of US foreign policy application in the past two decades has been direct wars/military interventions as in Afghanistan, Iraq,...

Human Rights and Climate Change in the Philippines

In the past decade, we have seen the successful infiltration of human rights discourses into the conventionally physical science-dominated climate...