This Time Really Is Different

BOSTON – Respectable investors aren’t supposed to say, “This time is different.” But, given the market gyrations in recent months, they would...

Behind the Scenes / Narcotics useful to control cancer pain

Nearly 40 percent of terminal cancer patients suffered physical pain in the month before passing, according to results of the first national survey...

Don’t forget to file your taxes, America, because Amazon paid ZERO to Uncle Sam last year!

While Jeff Bezos was caught red-handed flashing around some random stuff last year, tax dollars from his multi-billionaire dollar Amazon empire...

Consumers in China are getting more cautious about data privacy

CHINA is an interesting country in the digital ecosystem of Asia. Bigger than its neighbours, China is a digital behemoth in itself — unique in...

Under Jokowi, Indonesia’s middle-class the winner of economic growth

The challenge for the Jokowi administration is to make Indonesian economic growth more inclusive, especially for its poorest population. Despite...

Winds of change sweep auto industry

HIKONE, SHIGA PREF. - Earlier this month, Toyota Motor Corp. announced the launch of a new service to lease its luxury Lexus cars at a set rate....

Brexit’s Lost World

OXFORD – Dramatic changes have swept the world since British voters decided in 2016 to leave the European Union. None of them could have been...

The effects of Syria’s war on health could last for generations

As the Syrian war approaches its eighth anniversary next month, the reality of the nation’s revolution-gone-wrong could not be starker. Millions...

Do You Really Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize, Mister Trump?

It’s hard to argue that the sitting US president is particularly good at attracting public attention to his persona, which he has proven once...

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Tzipi Livni's Mistakes

Livni's difficulty in taking on issues beyond the peace process and the two-state solution led to her political downfall

Katakana, used appropriately, can enrich written Japanese

When I was a university student taking law classes 30-plus years ago, reading textbooks filled with katakana syllabary was a truly tough challenge....

Showdown in Munich

MUNICH – It was at the 2007 Munich Security Conference that Russian President Vladimir Putin first signaled a cooling of Russian-Western...

Xi Jinping is taking China down a dangerous path

As the world focuses on developments in China's coastal regions, the one-party state is flexing its totalitarian muscle in the northwest of the...

Why won’t Turkey abandon the S-400 deal with Russia?

Washington’s first deadline for Turkey to respond to its offer to buy the Patriot missile defence system passed last Friday with no progress...

Suckling Hatred With Mother’s Milk

Only the milk of certain Israeli Jewish mothers is missing, that essential vitamin without which a proud race cannot arise. Theirs is...

How Russia's domestic divisions could foil its Middle East plans

For most outside observers of the Kremlin, Russia's policymaking process is an inscrutable monolith, with decisions taken exclusively by President...

The Dialectic of Global Trade Policy

MUNICH – There is a subtle yet important change occurring in how political leaders think about international trade, including how to remedy long-...

Japan and South Korea must end the cycle of distrust

Who Gains from Turning Europe into a Potential Nuclear Battlefield?

The United States and its NATO partners are attempting to make the case for Washington’s decision to abandon the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces...

Kam s ním?

Podľa Fica a jeho ľudí problém ani neexistuje, pretože len čo sa spôsob voľby zmení z verejného na tajný, Smer bude hlasovať za menoslov...

Maslo na hlavách

Zavraždenie Jána Kuciaka a jeho snúbenice Martiny Kušnírovej bolo v našich podmienkach výnimočné. Niekto sa krvavo pomstil novinárovi za...

Amazon’s winner-take-all approach to small businesses

NEW YORK - Small businesses are a pillar of capitalism and of a healthy economy. They provide a path into the middle and upper-middle class for...

Klientelizem najslabše vrste

Obljubljene tri milijarde dolarjev takšnih in drugačnih naložbenih spodbud, ki sta jih obljubila guverner in župan New Yorka Andrew Cuomo in Bill...

Protesty

Slovenské poľnohospodárstvo stojí na krížnych cestách. Cítia to všetci. Ešte pred tridsiatimi rokmi sme boli sebestační, teraz sme zberný...

Putin's empty promises

In his annual speech, Russia's Vladimir Putin tried to fight sinking political popularity with often heard promises. But these are shattered by a...

Los días de la cruda verdad en el Vaticano

La avalancha de medios de comunicación, especialmente de Estados Unidos, es enorme. Muchos comparan la atención y tensión de estos días con los de...

México: un país para desesperarse

México es la mayor democracia de habla hispana en el mundo, un país que garantiza la libertad de prensa en su Constitución. Sin embargo, también...

How domestic violence affects women’s mental health

Physical and emotional abuse is not only distressing, it’s psychologically damaging and increases women’s risk of developing a mental illness....

LDP ‘bullying’ local entities into assisting on SDF recruitment

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is claiming that more than 60 percent of local governments are not cooperating with the Self-Defense Forces in...

Open Questions About Open Banking

LONDON – As its Valentine’s Day present to the world, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) in Basel published a report on financial technology,...

City of Xi’an and Why the New Chinese Silk Road Terrifies the West?

Snow is falling on the wide sidewalks of the historic city of Xi’an, but people don’t seem to be troubled by the bitter cold. One of the oldest...

A Philippine alternative to China's takeover of Subic shipyard

Netanyahu’s agenda in Warsaw was to target the Palestinians, not Iran

Benjamin Netanyahu looked like the groom at an upmarket wedding at last week’s Warsaw Summit on the Middle East. Everyone else looked like...

From comrades to assassins, N Korea and Vietnam eye new chapter with Trump-Kim summit

In 1966, Ahn Hak-soo was one of more than 300,000 South Korean soldiers fighting alongside U.S. forces during the Vietnam War when he was captured...

Corbyn’s Labour Will Never Stop Gaslighting Jews

Targets of anti-Semitism abuse are told they’re hysterical, traitors, Zionists and Goebbels’ heirs. Jews in Labour are once again the canary in...

Vážne poklesky pána prezidenta

A nepodarený ústavný činiteľ, aby sa vyhol „trestnému konaniu proti verejnému činiteľovi“, by sa už urýchlene porúčal z úradu....

Vietnam can be template for a US deal with North Korea

India’s Trifecta of Failure

PATNA, INDIA – On January 7, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government suddenly announced that an additional 10% of school seats and government...

European Parliament will be split, but not hostage to nationalists

Analysis. The far right, loud but fractured, will make only modest gains in the European Parliament in May elections, according to a massive new...

Bibi, Who Am I Bothering?

The fact that Israel is deporting children of migrant workers who were born here, who have lived here all their lives and most of whom speak no...

The nightmares of a Yemeni mother

I start my day thinking it could be my last one, so I try to ignore all nuisances and petty problems and greet everyone as if it is the last time...

The Salman Rushdie affair: Thirty years and a novelist later

Who still remembers, or cares to remember, or cares at all about the "Salman Rushdie affair"?     Thirty years ago, on Valentine's Day, February...