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// 7 years ago
Was 2016 just 1938 all over again?
Bowled over by the news this past year, one can be forgiven for grasping for the crutches of historical analogy.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
Trump and the climate: His hot air on warming is far from the greatest threat
President-elect Donald J. Trump has long pledged to undertake a profound policy shift on climate change from the low-carbon course of President Barack Obama.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
Why we can hope for better crisis response in 2017
Despite the horror of 2016, I remain hopeful that the international community will deliver on its promises to change the way it works.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
The polar bear as national symbol and emblem of conservation
Today, no animal except perhaps the wolf divides opinions as strongly as does the polar bear, top predator and sentinel species of the Arctic.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
Crimes in Aleppo: Iran must be ousted from Syria
The unspeakable scenes we witnessed in Aleppo will go down in history along with Darfur, Srebrenica or Rwanda as major stains on the world's moral conscience.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
Facebook doesn't tell users everything it really knows about them
Facebook has long let users see all sorts of things the site knows about them, like whether they enjoy soccer, have recently moved, or like Melania Trump.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
After Aleppo, Syria's Tehran-Moscow axis starts to fray
BEIRUT -- Iran and Russia's odd-couple coalition in Syria is coming under strain, largely because the two countries' strategic imperatives are widely divergent.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
How serious is the animosity between Israel and Iran?
LONDON -- Revelations that the state-owned Iran Foreign Investment Co. has shares in a German company that has supplied the Israeli Navy with ships sparked controversy.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
Shamed and abandoned: the fate of Syria's female ex-inmates
Women in Syria's prisons report psychological abuse, sexual assault and torture. But for many, the suffering they experience after their release is even worse.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
4 ways Russian-NATO relations could break down in 2017
The Council on Foreign Relations has published a report naming a possible conflict between Russia and NATO as first in the category of threats for 2017.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
New president faces too many icebergs, too many Titanics
When viewing world events today, catastrophe and crisis are seemingly everywhere.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
Japan's change in military outlook marks the end of a 'peace state'
Thanks to the constitution imposed on its citizens by the U.S. after the end of World War II, Japan has long been thought of by pacifists as a "peace state."
Opinion
// 7 years ago
Why Donald Trump's China policy is a trade war in the making
The non-sustainability of the U.S. trade deficit helps us understand the foreign policy of President-elect Donald Trump.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
What the murder of Andrei Karlov says about fighting terrorism today
The assassination of Andrei Karlov, Russia's ambassador to Turkey, is an ominous bridge that unites the gloom of the past with the darkness of the present.
Opinion
// 7 years ago
Southeast Asia's war on drugs doesn't work -- here's what does
There's broad consensus among researchers that the war on drugs, which typically consists of punitive measures and forced rehabilitation, doesn't work.
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