Forget substance, Trump gets the optics he craved in India

From the moment he touched down on Indian soil on Monday to the time he stretched out in his presidential hotel suite in the capital in the...

Double standards: MSM goes with alarmist headlines over Russia’s coronavirus measures… which are milder than those in EU

We all love a killer virus movie. That’s why Hollywood keeps churning them out: ‘Contagion’, ‘Outbreak’, ‘Patient Zero’, ‘Shivers’,...

India should not exclude Huawei from its 5G rollout

US warnings about Chinese telecoms company are unsubstantiated

Good riddance to Harvey Weinstein, a repugnant pig who brutalized both women and cinema

The first blockbuster that Harvey Weinstein produced was Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction. In that movie there is a male rapist named Zed, who...

Thought-police come for Koch-funded ‘anti-Greta’ - but unlike ‘real Greta,’ her conflicts of interest are in public view

Naomi Seibt has been attacked as a “climate change denier” for working with the Heartland Institute, a libertarian think-tank funded by oil and...

The Sumo Scene: Mystical fight to the death deeply etched PREMIUM

Collecting Bodies

Every Israeli ought to be worried by the video clip of an army bulldozer dragging the body of a Palestinian who was killed by Israeli soldiers in...

Abe government needs a reshuffle on casino plans as doubts arise

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration has often responded to scandals and problems by making specious, hollow promises to “listen to the...

What About Equality at Military Funerals?

The committee headed by Maj. Gen. (res.) Roni Numa that examined the data on Haredi enlistment in the army didn’t come up with any surprises. What...

A continuum of crises: Two viral attacks under two presidents in less than a decade

People wearing face masks walk past the "I.Seoul.U" sign near Seoul City Hall in central Seoul, Monday. Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul By...

Gloom prevails over economy

Time to take radical steps to fend off difficulties Pessimistic forecasts are prevailing over the Korean economy. Most analysts say stunted growth...

Step up healthcare system

'Maximum containment' aimed at checking virus The Moon Jae-in administration has decided to take "maximum containment" measures to stem the rapid...

Virus and votes

By Choi Sung-jin Politicians do anything to win votes, and nowhere else may this be truer than here in Korea. The new coronavirus outbreak seems to...

End of EU's Brexit bounce

By Mark Leonard BERLIN ― After the United Kingdom voted in 2016 to leave the European Union, policymakers and political leaders across Europe...

Chopsticks

By Bernard Rowan I don't know about you, but I still struggle with chopsticks. They fall between my fingers. I can't pick up an egg. I've improved...

Barr was right, the left was wrong

By Jay Ambrose It is a sign of our times that Attorney General William Barr tried to do something right and some illiberal liberals, including not...

Respect for elders

By Yi Woo-won One of the salient features of the two traditional holidays, Seollal and Chuseok, is to observe ancestral rites. This time-honored...

Prikrita racionalnost brexita

Racionalni politični razcepi, ki smo jim priča v ključnih zgodovinskih trenutkih, se pogosto zgodijo iz popolnoma napačnih razlogov. Tipičen...

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Blind soccer player builds virtual pitch in her mind to win

I watched a women's blind soccer international friendship match on Feb. 22 in the city of Saitama. The game was played on a pitch little larger than...

India's media is failing in its democratic duty

The protests in India against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which grants a fast track to citizenship for certain religious-minority...

A Bernie Sanders presidency could be a nightmare for Saudi Arabia

Picture for a moment Senator Bernie Sanders winning the US presidential election this November and then heading to a scheduled meeting next year...

The Trump plan threatens the status quo at al-Haram al-Sharif

Apart from its many other faults and its overall one-sidedness, and despite its authors' claims to the contrary, the US plan for Israel-Palestine,...