Iran playing the nuclear-dawn game
“A glance at the history of nuclear weapons manufacture shows that all 11 countries that wished to build…
Waiting for a less crowded planet
If you wanted evidence that reasonably competent government – not great, not corruption-free, just not awful – produces…
Balkan ghosts endure over a wide area
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” says an old friend to Jack Nicholson as the mother is killed, the…
Hong Kong and the “British” 3 Million
“We will grant BNOs five years’ limited leave to remain (in the United Kingdom), with the right to…
Russian referendum the latest gambit from Putin
“The very existence of an opportunity for the current president (to be re-elected in 2024), given his major…
Putin’s plea highlights risk to world peace
Donald Trump writes in tweets, with more exclamation marks than a 13-year-old girl’s diary. Nobody knows for sure…
The case for a four-day workweek
As countries in Europe and North America emerge from lockdown and start trying to rebuild their devastated economies,…
Brazil’s populist pandemic response
What do you do if you are in charge of dealing with the pandemic and the number of…
No quick cure for racism in America
It’s been a bad week in the United States: protests, huge anger, rioting and looting in 50 cities,…
Hong Kong: a story of what went wrong
“We are the meat on the chopping board,” said Martin Lee, founder of Hong Kong’s Democratic Party. “They…
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