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People with disabilities face real danger at train stations

Train stations are often likened to a "bridge without a guardrail" for people with a visual impairment. How scary it must be to rely only on your...

An Interview with Philippe Legrain

Israel’s ‘preventive’ assassination complicates Biden’s agenda

Commentary. We fully deserved Trump after all, since the Western press writes such rubbish that risks making a direct attack on Iran seem...

Wisconsin, Arizona certify Biden wins in election; Trump vows another challenge

Two battleground states, Wisconsin and Arizona, certified their presidential election results Monday in favor of Joe Biden, even as US President...

Blue and White MKs turn on party minister over her support for illegal outposts

A Blue and White minister has expressed support for legalizing outposts in the West Bank, drawing the ire of other members of the centrist...

Does Being a Therapist Make Me a Better Parent?

Whenever casual conversation turns toward the topic of my profession, I am invariably asked, “ Does being a therapist make you a better parent?”...

Turkey’s new legal reform stuck in our throats

It is clear that the future of the People’s Alliance, and the relationship between the AKP and the MHP, which Bahçeli offered and Erdoğan...

Ex-president must apologize

Court recognizes choppers' firing during 1980 Gwangju Uprising Former President Chun Doo-hwan was found guilty on Monday of defaming a late priest...

Diet, unable to bring clarity to scandals, faces credibility crisis

The current extraordinary Diet session is scheduled to close in five days, and the ruling camp has no intention to extend it. But the...

Biden and Korean security

By Bernard Rowan As the United States, her allies and the world prepare for the end of the Trump presidency, the calls begin for President-elect...

A triumph of German innovation and immigration

MUNICH – The world took note when the German start-up BioNTech announced its breakthrough in the development of a new type of vaccine to combat...

China's global climate boost

By Kevin Tu BEIJING ― In his video address to the United Nations General Assembly in September, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced a slight...

A Reminder of the Events that Occurred on Yeonpyeong

On November 23rd, 2020, South Korea pointed out the “10th anniversary of North Korea’s deadly artillery strike on the South Korean island on...

Yaakov and the Angel – “The Match of the Millennium”

It was billed as the “Match of the Millennium”, the contestants eager for battle, well, at least one of them was. In one corner, hailing from...

La recuperación de la capacidad y demanda aerocomercial en América Latina

Según la empresa OAG, la oferta de asientos de las aerolíneas en la región a finales de octubre mostraba que el crecimiento de la capacidad estaba...

The Fountain of Eternal Youth

Throughout centuries, countless methods and treatments have been created that claim to stop or diminish the aging process, as people experience...

The Lifelong Learning of Educators

It is not uncommon for adults to enter fields inspired by childhood experiences.  Sometimes those experiences motivate us to follow in the...

Ramifications of COVID-19 Vaccine Implementation

With shipments of vaccines just around the corner, it is time to speculate upon the implications of their implementation. Given that there are...

Love, Disability, and Suicide Prevention – A Good Read

Love, disability, and suicide prevention are the themes that run through the book My John, I Was his Sunshine, by Debra L. Smith.  Yet this...

Total policy failure

Regulation, heavier taxes cannot stabilize housing prices A tragic incident took place last Friday in which a man in his 30s committed suicide...

Biden must build US diplomacy back better

In January, Joe Biden will take charge of an executive branch left in woeful disrepair. Practically every important federal institution has been...

Diplomatic mission impossible

By Choi Sung-jin U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, unlike the current occupant of the White House, is seen as a reasonable and predictable person....

ASCOM facility and Korean wave

ASCOM is an acronym of Army Service Command XXIV Corps located in Incheon's Bupyeong District since 1945. The Corps facilities have included a dozen...

Australian-British academic freed by Iran ‘blown away’ by support

SYDNEY, Australia — An Australian-British academic released after two years imprisoned in Iran on spying charges said she thanked supporters from...

A New Strategy for China with Biden? Or is it Too Late?

During the Obama era, in which Biden served as Vice President, the US approached China quite differently. Will Biden be able to revert to a softer...

Hackers breach Israeli insurance company, steal client data

Hackers targeting an Israeli insurance company claimed to have made off with a vast hoard of personal data on its clients, many of whom are civil...

Joe Biden and the Future of Transatlantic Relations

In these times of increasing polarization, there was little that pundits, politicians, and the media across the political spectrum seemed to agree...

The future is here … to destroy us

Riding the warhorse of capitalism (if you can make big bucks ripping everyone off, you should be free to do so), innovation is threatening the...

Adolf Eichmann and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh

In 1962, the state of Israel executed Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Nazi’s “Final Solution.” While we Jews feel pride and a sense of...

(POGLED) Dileme šolstva v koroni: Ohranjanje bližine na daljavo

Otvoritev skoraj slehernih večernih poročil preteklih osmih mesecev so številke: okuženih, hospitaliziranih in žal tudi umrlih. Dan za dnem v...

Israeli government spending millions to hack itself

Israel’s State Comptroller’s office has decided to check the government’s information security systems in an unlikely way, hiring dozens of...

Labor party will back vote for new elections, ending government ‘paralysis’

The Labor party on Tuesday said it would back a bill to disband the Knesset and call early elections, amid widespread speculation that Israelis...

Foot-in-mouth Jen Psaki is the perfect spokesperson for gaffe machine Joe Biden

Psaki celebrated her new role on Sunday by gushing about the “talented, battle-tested communicators…also all women” Biden had picked for his...

How to defuse the human waste time bomb in low-income countries

Half of the world flushes away their sewage without a second thought as to where it goes. But for the other half of the global population, their...

Sama si je kriva

Diego Armando Maradona je umrl na mednarodni dan boja proti nasilju nad ženskami. To je tisti dan, ko svet vsem zlorabljenim, posiljenim,...

Killing scientist batters, but doesn’t shatter Biden plans to reenter nuke deal

NEW YORK — Within hours of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s assassination on Friday, social media accounts affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...

Second Bahraini minister in two weeks due in Israel to expand trade ties

The second ministerial delegation from Bahrain in two weeks is set to land in Israel Tuesday morning with hopes of deepening the two countries’...

When Jews Erase One Another, Antisemites Win

Erasure can take many forms: cultural, historical, epistemological, and anything in between. Every marginalized population experiences it in one...

Israel sees 1,227 new virus cases in day, highest since mid-October

Israel confirmed the highest number of new daily coronavirus cases since mid-October on Monday, underscoring a renewed rise in infections after the...

China’s hard line against Australia is a lesson for us all

Australia has become Beijing’s preferred pinata as China lashes out against perceived disrespect from other governments. Apparently willing to take...

Startup unveils ‘new generation’ rocket engines with ‘PowerGel’ fuel

Israeli startup NewRocket has unveiled what it says is a “new generation” of rocket engines that are gel-fueled, low-cost and environmentally...

‘Mercenary’ donor exploited US politics to help Erdogan, other foreign officials

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — As an elite US political fundraiser, Imaad Zuberi had the ear of top Democrats and Republicans alike — a reach...

Cindy’s Corners Exclusive With Sean Spicer – Winner of Election 2020

Cindy’s Corners: Sean Spicer Is The Big Winner Election Night Newsmax Host Dominates In Ratings, Supports Israel And Predicted Some of the 2020...

Chile is again in the streets as pressure mounts on Piñera to leave

Analysis. Repression also returns. The central demand of a large and varied movement is that Piñera has to go. written by Andrea Cegna Topic Latin...

Biden starts receiving top secret President’s Daily Brief

WILMINGTON, Delaware (AP) — Joe Biden on Monday got his first look as president-elect at the President’s Daily Brief, a top secret summary of...

Questioning the Diversity Delusion on Race-Obsessed Campuses

When he wryly observed that “During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act,” Orwell may well have had academia...

Hasidic cult member accused of child abuse flees Israel mid-trial

A member of the Hasidic Lev Tahor cult has escaped Israel and traveled to Guatemala, his lawyer said Tuesday, six months after he was indicted for...

Progressives may not like Biden’s foreign policy

Shortly after President-elect Joe Biden clinched his party’s nomination in May, a group of 50 progressive organizations sent his campaign a...

Pfizer, BioNTech ask Europe to approve coronavirus vaccine

BERLIN — The German pharmaceutical company BioNTech and its US partner Pfizer say they have submitted an application for conditional approval of...