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Fri, April 27, 2018 | 11:47

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The West's unilateral Cold War

Rising tensions between the United Kingdom and Russia are but further proof that Russia and the West, according to no less an authority than Richard N. Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, have entered a “Cold War II.” I tend to disagree.

Guest Column | 2018-03-21 15:14

Trump wants a new war on drugs

President Donald Trump's opioid response plan might have multiple prongs, but when he unveiled it Monday, he clearly was most interested in the prong that gets “very tough” on drug dealers.

Guest Column | 2018-03-21 15:10

Trump's war on maternal health

In December 2014, the cover of Time magazine's “Person of the Year” issue featured Salome Karwah, a nursing assistant who not only survived the Ebola epidemic in her native Liberia that year, but also helped waves of patients arriving at her Ebola ward.

Guest Column | 2018-03-20 17:07

Execution is inhumane, no matter what method states use

In the fall of 1607, a blacksmith named James Read was sentenced to hang for striking a representative of King James I in the Jamestown colony in Virginia. But at the top of the ladder that led to the gallows, he offered up details about a supposed mutiny in the making.

Guest Column | 2018-03-20 17:04

Two-way FDIs prevent global trade war

On March 6, President Trump announced a plan to impose heavy tariffs, 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminum imports. Numerous trade partners resent the U.S. protectionist policy.

Guest Column | 2018-03-19 16:50

The double helix of Chinese history

Now that China's National People's Congress has voted _ 2,958 to two _ to abolish presidential term limits, Xi Jinping could rule China indefinitely, rather than completing a tenure of two five-year terms in 2023. To what degree is Xi set to become the all-powerful ruler many observers predict?

Guest Column | 2018-03-19 16:29

Tillerson sacking will not reverse Trump's foreign failures

Donald Trump announced March 13, by Twitter, that he has sacked Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. Tillerson's brutal departure may reduce the U.S. administration's divisions on key foreign policy issues, but is unlikely to stop continued flip-flops by the president which reflect also the ad-hoc nature of his style of governing, policy inexperience, and contrarian nature.

Guest Column | 2018-03-19 16:25

How will new cybersecurity norms develop?

Last month, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for global action to minimize the risk posed by electronic warfare to civilians. Guterres lamented that “there is no regulatory scheme for that type of warfare,” noting that “it is not clear how the Geneva Convention or international humanitarian law applies to it.”

Guest Column | 2018-03-18 17:01

Gina Haspel's appointment to run the CIA revives America's dark history of torture

Gina Haspel, President Donald Trump's choice to take over the CIA, is a well-respected figure within the intelligence community, by most accounts.

Guest Column | 2018-03-18 17:00

Tillerson gone, Trump unleashed

Rex Tillerson did not suffer fools gladly. He called Donald Trump a “moron” in a private conversation after one meeting at the Pentagon, and did not take the opportunity to deny it when a journalist asked him in public.

Guest Column | 2018-03-16 17:28

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