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Leta 1983 je canski filmski festival nagradil film Balada o Narayami japonskega režiserja Šoheija Imamure, ob katerem je javnost ostrmela. V njem...

Is China Winning the AI Race?

CAMBRIDGE – COVID-19 has become a severe stress test for countries around the world. From supply-chain management and health-care capacity to...

The China hawks got it mostly right

Fairfax, Virginia – More than a year after protests for democracy in Hong Kong dominated the news, some major questions about China have been...

Delay the election? U.S. presidents often do things they can’t do

New York – The stock response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the general election might be delayed because voting during a...

How long should governments spend away?

The U.S.-China relationship is a Shakespearean tragedy

South Orange, New Jersey – The one common and peculiar aspect of most Shakespearean tragedies is the fact that the catastrophic events and...

Trump’s Hypocrisy on China

NEW YORK – In a speech last month at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared politely that...

Covid bailout fund shows that fairness is rarely on the agenda at the EU, and this time it’s Ireland who is the clear loser

After the latest EU coronavirus recovery fund spending orgy, which amounted to a total of around €750 billion in grants and loans spread across...

Bias and commercialism is killing MSM news and causing an exodus of respected journalists who’ve had enough

If you were to ask your mother who Ariana Pekary is, more than likely she’s not going to know unless she’s already met her. That’s because...

The UAE is a tool in the service of the US and Israel

The United Arab Emirates is a relatively a young country that is small in both area and political weight. Nevertheless, it has the ability to...

Anti-English racism risks turning Scottish independence toxic and creating a kilt-wearing Nigel McFarage

Robert Mugabe ended up hated and being driven from power. But many years ago, he was hailed as a fresh-faced revolutionary with dynamic policies....

The countdown to the demise of Netanyahu’s political reign

Protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been on the increase, whether due to his failed measures to tackle the coronavirus,...

The space between our heads

In a nondescript building in Seattle, a man sits strapped to a chair with his right hand resting on a touchpad. Pressed against his skull is a...

The meaning of a monument

The ‘Equestrian Statue of Theodore Roosevelt’ was commissioned by the City of New York to stand in front of the American Museum of Natural History...

Seth Rogen Exposed an Irreconcilable Difference Between Israel and the Diaspora

U.S. Jews' problem with Israel is not with what it does but with what it is

Beware of the looming chaos in the Middle East

If you thought the Middle East has hit rock bottom and may finally emerge intact from a decade of upheaval and conflict, think again. The economic,...

How much annexation can Palestinians survive?

Despite the raging pandemic and Israel's ever-increasing restrictions on the movements of Palestinians, a few friends and I still manage to meet...

Nicaragua's jailed activists face a coronavirus death sentence

When university student and activist John Cerna Zuniga was arrested on February 28 and later sentenced to 12 years in jail on drug trafficking...

An Interview with Ashoka Mody

How South Korea Built a Health System to Beat COVID-19

SEOUL – The importance of a reliable and widely accessible health-care system is never more apparent than during a pandemic. It is now painfully...

State-imposed secularism will never work in the Middle East

Almost a month after the Turkish government overturned the 1934 ruling that converted the Hagia Sophia into a museum, the response from the...

Kabuki: Masterpiece reconstructed, streamed on Zoom in innovative endeavor PREMIUM

Past and patriarchy

By Deauwand Myers Along history, forever / some woman dancing, / making shapes on the air; / forever a man / riding a good horse, /sitting the dark...

COVID and Common Sense

ITHACA – As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, our understanding of it is improving. Through a combination of epidemiology and physics – including...

New housing supply plan

Regaining market confidence key to success The Moon Jae-in administration has come up with a new anti-speculative housing package aimed at building...

Apartheid or one state: Has Jordan broken a political taboo? 

What will it take for the idea of a two-state solution, which was hardly practical to begin with, to be completely abandoned? Every realistic...

Life on Mars? We need to affirm.

The Baltimore Sun From writer H.G. Wells to filmmaker Ridley Scott, the possibility of life on Mars has long sparked the public's imagination for...

APLN Statement on 75th Anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The following is a statement issued Aug. 2 by the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (APLN) on the...

China's think tanks (II)

By Lee Seong-hyon Under the Chinese political landscape, the limits of Chinese think tanks derive from their mandate to provide logic to the...

School Choice Is the Only Option

STANFORD – After years of rumblings for change in US education, the COVID-19 pandemic is becoming a catalyst for improving the system....

‘We want to delete more!’ Facebook must choose freedom of speech over censorship, if it still pretends to be ‘a platform’

Keen observers of the ins and outs of Silicon Valley’s complicated relationship with freedom of expression may remember that last month a host of...

Government’s fiscal reform target needs a reality check

When will the government stop pretending that its completely unrealistic fiscal reform policy target is still achievable by drawing on outrageously...

Words of wisdom from Japan’s pioneer dementia expert

Flowers symbolize youth because they are short lived. In that sense, "old flowers" may be an oxymoron. But I think this expression is perfectly...

Reframing Globalization: COVID-19 and 21st Century Institutional Retreat

Under the aegis of a transformational pandemic we are either on the verge of planetary transformation or in the throes of inept leaders.