The Covid-19 lockdown is a death sentence for many women. Not from the virus, but from being stuck indoors with a violent partner

The day-to-day business of life as we knew it has ground to a halt from Bangalore to Los Angeles and from London to Lagos. But just because we’ve...

Stimulus package should allay fears by protecting those most in need

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned the public last weekend to expect a prolonged battle against the novel coronavirus as the number of COVID-19 cases...

Ebola Lessons for Fighting COVID-19

CAMBRIDGE – On April 12, the Democratic Republic of the Congo will mark 42 days since the last person who tested positive for Ebola was...

The Joint List is not responsible for Netanyahu remaining in power

After the initial agreement between Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White Party, and the Israeli Prime Minister to form a unity government, it...

What this Pandemic is like for Someone with Schizophrenia

I'm scared all the time. I'm washing my hands a lot. Every time I touch anything, really. A case of water. A door handle. The remote control. I'm...

Grief and the Involuntary Reset

Standing at the kitchen island, I cradled the steaming cup in between my hands. I closed my eyes briefly, inhaled deeply, and enjoyed the simple...

Vypínač Matovič

Nápad, s ktorým vyrukoval Igor Matovič, že stačí celé Slovensko na dva-tri týždne úplne „vypnúť“ a bude po probléme, vyzerá ako...

Politikárčenie

Bolo by to v poriadku, keby sa Fond vzájomnej pomoci aj s finančným prispením ministrov zriadil v rámci uznávaného občianskeho združenia,...

Is Malawi an 'African exception'?

The past 10 months have been momentous for Malawi. After a series of protests against what many have perceived as a flawed presidential election,...

Trump's $2 trillion will not shield minorities from coronavirus

A two-trillion-dollar stimulus plan  - aimed at mending the US economy during one of the most volatile pandemics the world has ever seen - was...

New Yorkers need calm during coronavirus crisis, not the Empire State Building screaming death and despair

Most people probably have recollections of being stuck on a particularly turbulent flight, where things got so bad that passengers began to sneak...

Is it Brave New World or 1984? Here are a few dystopias we ALREADY live in

Who wouldn’t want to live in a future described as “a boot stomping on a human face, forever”? It’s all but impossible to describe Western...

Parsing a national drink: What we talk about when we talk about sake PREMIUM

About four years ago in this column I introduced the research of social psychologist Chie Kanagawa and her colleagues, who asked Japanese and...

Terrorist Enclave Run by Mercenaries from Syria is being Created in Tunisia

Terrorists who have fled Idlib (in Syria), in part due to actions taken by Turkey, are dispersing throughout Africa thus posing a security threat...

“The Russians are Coming”

“The Russians are coming”, a phrase allegedly uttered by US Secretary of Defense James Forrestal while suffering from mental illness in 1949, is...

Debilidades de la política pública desveladas por un virus

La Humanidad asiste a una crisis generada por un virus de origen animal, que en poco tiempo se ha desatado sin control. Como civilización, a pesar...

Teletrabajo: gestión de seguridad de la información

Frente a nuevos escenarios y causas de riesgos que pueden interrumpir uno o más procesos de negocio en una empresa y generar una contingencia...

Annals of a Pandemic: Success is about What We Can Control

The other day, I saw an article by memoirist and writing teacher Marion Roach Smith about writing list memoirs, if writing a full one seems...

9at38

The South Korean violinist Hyung Joon Won has held a singular – and perhaps quixotic – dream for the past seven years: a joint concert by North...

Coronavirus, the Greatest Challenge to ultra-Orthodox Jewish Life Since the Holocaust

One of the most frustrating things about reporting on the ultra-Orthodox community as a journalist is that very early on in your beat, you realize...

Israel needs the Arab world to be ruled by dictators

In February, the chief of the Mossad, Israel’s global death squad, visited Doha, the capital of Qatar; Yossi Cohen was accompanied by Major...

The Battle of Okinawa: Could more civilians have been saved?

Kobe – In early 1946, U.S. Navy Commander Henry S. Bennett, a member of the Medical Corps who served with the U.S. Marines during the Battle of...

China must not politicize international agencies

Europe grapples with new state of emergency decrees

Analysis. We may be stopping the virus, but are we killing democracy in the process? Hungary’s Orbán has finally become the dictator he always...

China’s global influence operation goes way beyond the WHO

Washington – The viral video really does tell the story. Over the weekend, a senior adviser at the World Health Organization abruptly shut down...

How COVID-19 saved Netanyahu

Former Israeli army chief Benny Gantz formed the Blue and White party just over a year ago to provide a viable alternative to Prime Minister...

Ensuring Food Security in the Era of COVID-19

ROME – COVID-19 has been slowly creeping into our communities. As we seek to ensure our families’ health and safety, to many people, food has...

Pandemija ponuja priložnost

Totalitarizem zdaj ni glavno vprašanje. Skrbeti bi nas moral pred pandemijo, saj se je intenzivno razraščal vsaj od začetka tisočletja, če ne od...

The Politics of the Pandemic

BERLIN – The asteroid has hit, and suddenly everything has changed. But the asteroid that has crashed into our planet is invisible. One needs a...

‘Culling’ the old & weak: Eugenics and social Darwinism rear their ugly heads in the Covid-19 pandemic

One thing about a health crisis, it sorts out the humane from the inhumane. Those who think all lives are equally precious from those who seem to...

Coronavirus: for Malaysia’s economy to survive and recover, its stimulus package needs more firepower

If Makcik (Auntie) Kiah existed, she would be one lucky lady.According to Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, the hypothetical banana...

Thailand's family conglomerates have a stranglehold over food retail

CP Group's deal for Tesco Lotus does not spell good news for consumers

Palestinians, curfews and self-discipline 

I do not think that there is any Palestinian in the West Bank and Gaza Strip who has not had experience of curfews in their years of living under...

Israel will be controlled by the right wing for the foreseeable future

Last Thursday was a milestone in the history of the Zionist state of Israel. March 26, 2020, will be remembered as the day that the possibility...

While you’re terrified of Covid-19, some climate alarmists are overjoyed because, for them, fear is… an OPPORTUNITY

“Some believe the pandemic is a once-in-a-generation chance to remake society and build a better future,” argues one advocate of climate...

Too Big a Brother

Under the cover of the spreading coronavirus, the government is deepening its invasion of the lives of this country’s citizens. Defense Minister...

In a time of pandemic, the US prepares for war – but Iran’s weakness is grossly exaggerated

The US military is engaged in a strategic redeployment of forces inside Iraq, including the deployment of surface-to-air missiles whose only...

What will 6 months of Covid-19 do to our society? Only certain thing is we'll be in a state... and the STATE will be IN CONTROL

Albert Einstein famously quipped that he never thought about the future because it came soon enough. He might have been a genius, but he didn’t...

A brand new business year that is starting like never before

In my first year at work, an older colleague who was teaching me the ropes blurted to me out of the blue one day, "You look at me accusingly, as if...