U.S. Anti-pinkwashing 'Progressives' Don't See LGBTQ Israelis as Real People, Only Pawns

This year, like last year, I slathered on layers of sunscreen, threw on my group’s wine-colored t-shirt, stocked up on bottled water and headed out...

To ni vic o policajih

Minuli teden je Ljubljano večkrat nenadoma napadla ploha in poleg vrtnih kumaric namočila tudi ceste, kar je še posebej neprijetno za ...

As Its Economy Tanks, Iran May Have to Talk With America

The regime is growing desperate as the forecasts tumble from a bit of growth to deep bear territory, and other options just aren't there

Israel’s Right Must Stop Splintering – and Reach Out to the Arab Community

The voter who describes himself as center-right has only two options: Likud or the right-wing bloc that must be formed. The right, which has been...

The fate of Japan, and everyone else

WASHINGTON - If you want a peek at the future, try looking at Japan. It’s a sobering exercise. Here’s how economist Timothy Taylor, managing...

Palestine: The Arab 'deal of the century'

A man stands charged with biting the finger of another man during a fight. A witness for the prosecution takes the stand, and the defence lawyer...

Xi's visit to North

Meeting with Kim hoped to break deadlock Chinese leader Xi Jinping's June 20 to 21 state visit to North Korea is drawing much attention, as it...

Boris Johnson: The last betrayal?

LONDON - It is not as if the British nation or, for that matter, any even half-awake observer around the world does not know what they are getting...

Haley’s UN legacy adds to the international conspiracy against the Palestinians

Nikki Haley has told Israel Hayom that, “I really didn’t know that much about Israel,” an admission which did nothing to hinder her stint as...

Don’t blame Trump for Iran’s aggression

WASHINGTON - As U.S. President Donald Trump mulls a comprehensive response to what he says was an Iranian attack on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf...

Europe Must Answer the Climate Call

BRUSSELS – In early 2015, the European Union became the first major economy to set a post-2020 target for limiting greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions....

Does answer to our energy problems lie in tiny microbes?

By Younghoon David Kim Such are the dire predictions about climate change these days that there seem to be only two courses open for society:...

Hey, America! We need another baby boom!

By Tom Purcell America's declining birthrate has given me pause. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of babies...

Machines meet the physics of the social

Interview. We spoke with Alessandro Vespignani, whose new book ‘The Algorithm and the Oracle’ examines the predictive abilities of machines....

Revival of rural economy

By Mark Peterson I wrote in November of a trip to visit a traditional village in the rural countryside. I was quite pessimistic and titled my...

Change and stability

By Arthur I. Cyr W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, the great British musical maestros, declared in their 1882 light opera "Iolanthe" that Great...

When the Deep State Controls Deep Thinking and Russophobia

As citizens interested in policy, we can learn a great deal from the quasi-academic studies on Russian foreign relations strategies. A cursory...

Mongolia Playing Stabilizing Role in Situation on Korean Peninsula

First, a short history lesson. According to records, the relationship between Mongolia and Korea spans 800 years. Mongolian annals from the 13th to...

When Palestinians Dehumanize Jews, the Israeli Left Is Silent

Jewish settlers were filmed at a Palestinian wedding. Their host was fired by Fatah and denounced for facilitating a 'despicable act.' Why won't...

Morsi’s death was a political assassination by a vindictive regime

Mohamed Morsi will forever be remembered as Egypt’s first democratically-elected President, something that his enemies can never take away from...

What can we learn from Asia’s election season?

This year, India, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia all held elections. About 1 billion voters were involved, all within a few weeks of one...

The media has a big problem: Who will pay for the news?

News organizations are being challenged by technology giants and unsettled by a broader lack of trust but they have a much deeper problem: most...

China earthquake quake kills 11, injures 122

THE toll from a strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest China rose to 11 dead and 122 injured on Tuesday, as rescuers pulled survivors from...

Nations must get past differences to cooperate on the environment

Global environmental problems know no national borders. Efforts by many nations to solve them can be easily gummed up by a small number of...

Success or failure for Abe in Tehran?

NIIGATA - How did Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s first foray as a conflict mediator go when he traveled to Tehran last week? In a joint news...

Japan and the limits of liquidity

Foiling the ‘deal of the century’ is possible

The US has once again started to hint about the postponement of the announcement of the details of the “deal of the century”; it was supposed to...

Israel’s increasing concern about Hamas’s growing naval capabilities

 Israeli circles have demanded that a large-scale military naval operation be carried out in Gaza to respond to the growing military capabilities...

Israel Must Let the Foreign-worker Mothers and Children Stay

One hundred female foreign workers, most of them from the Philippines, and their children who were born in Israel are due to be deported this...

Officer who was stabbed had gun stolen, not issued ‘secure’ holster

The opening scene of Akira Kurosawa's 1949 film "Nora Inu" (Stray Dog) starts with this line: "What? A pickpocket stole your pistol?!" The service...

Turkey, the S-400 and the new arms sale geopolitics

LONDON - Sometime next month, Russia may begin shipping its S-400 air defense system to Turkey. It is a move that divides NATO, may see the Turkish...

New Zealander jailed for sharing mosque shooting video

A New Zealand man was jailed for 21 months on Tuesday for distributing gruesome livestream video of the Christchurch mosque attacks that killed 51...

Australia’s pristine beaches have a big, smelly problem

AUSTRALIANS love our iconic coastal lifestyle. So many of our settlements are spread along our huge coastline. Real estate prices soar where we can...

After 10 years

Businesses, government should cooperate to tide over crisis "No company can say for sure they will be around 10 years from now." So said Samsung...

Hungary’s Mafia State Fights for Impunity

BUDAPEST – Hungary has become a post-communist mafia state. It is led not by a party but by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s political-economic...

Does the answer to our energy problems lie in tiny microbes?

By Younghoon David Kim Such are the dire predictions about climate change these days that there seem to be only two courses open for society:...

Africa's gig opportunity

By Olga Morawczynski and David Porteous TORONTO ― The growth of digital platforms in Africa could offer new opportunities to bridge the current...

How ‘bungling Boris’ bounced back from his 2016 setback

We could, quite easily, have already been three years into a Boris Johnson premiership. The Latin-spouting blond-haired Old Etonian was hotly...

The occupied West Bank is on the verge of a mass uprising

When US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman commented on Israel’s “right” to annex land in the occupied West Bank — as a dutiful Zionist he...

How global tyrants enable apparently perfect murders

Reality check: Mohamed Morsi is dead. Dr Morsi, the first and only democratically-elected President of Egypt slumped over in court on Monday, and...

Solar flare, aging infrastructure or Russia: Who gets blamed when the US has a massive power outage?

Imagine the following scenario. You are home alone on a Friday evening, relaxing with your favorite TV series when suddenly the lights go out....

Violence, women and marriage

Violence, women and marriage By Bernard Rowan I'm writing about another cause for high divorce rates in South Korea. Violence against women in...

The Israeli Opposition's Real Problem

If the leaders of Benny Gantz's Kahol Lavan party want change, there will be change. To our regret, however, they want to be Likud’s Siamese twin

Justice for Journalists

AMSTERDAM – It has been more than eight months since Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist and critic of his home country’s government who...

Economic Lessons From Everest

LONDON – Like many others, I was shocked by recent images showing the size of the queue that formed in May to scale Mount Everest, the world’s...

Purging critics of Israel is no way to fight anti-Semitism

With Israel seeking to purge public spaces of its critics, the decision by the New York Times to ban its publication of political cartoons entirely...