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Sat, June 23, 2018 | 02:15

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Israel scores painful own goal in run-up to the World Cup

Argentina's cancellation of a friendly match against Israel because of Israeli attempts to exploit the match politically is likely to reverberate far beyond the world of soccer and spotlights the risks of Israeli efforts to persuade the international community to recognize Jerusalem as its capital.

2018-06-10 16:21

How President Trump should play the summit

The summit almost certainly is going to happen. Neither party can afford to cancel this late. How best to make it a success? We know the result will not be denuclearization as defined by the U.S. We will not implement the so-called Libya model, collecting North Korea’s nukes, despite what National Security Adviser John Bolton said.

2018-06-09 11:20

The Intellectual Dark Web's freedoms

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s decision in Schenck v. the United States, which judged that the defendant's opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution, still reverberates around society. The question, whether it relates to a baker and sexual proclivities, a pug dog and its tricks, or the various cumberworlds we exper...

2018-06-09 09:34

War is no option even if the Korean summit fails

The summit with North Korea is back on. But if the Trump-Kim tete-a-tete goes badly, what is needed is more diplomacy, not war, as the administration suggested.

2018-06-08 18:52

Trump makes G7 toughest for years

The G7 presidents and prime ministers met in Canada on Friday and Saturday in what is likely to prove one of the group's most challenging such summits in many years. On a range of issues from trade to climate change and Iran, the United States appears to be dividing from key Western partners at a time of significant geopolitical and international economic turbulence giving ri...

2018-06-08 18:13

The shape of Sino-American conflict

For most observers of the unfolding trade war between the United States and China, the casus belli is the convergence of China's unfair trade practices with U.S. President Donald Trump's protectionist credo. But this reading misses a critical development: the demise of America's decades-long policy of engagement with China.

2018-06-07 15:30

Path after marriage equality: It would never be a cakewalk

Like many of my LGBTQ brothers and sisters, I was disappointed after Monday's “gay wedding cake” ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. The main argument made by the baker in this case was that by selling a cake to a gay couple, he would be condoning their actions and therefore violating his faith.

2018-06-07 15:23

Kanye West mess

Kanye West recently asserted that the enslaved were making a “choice.” In doing so, West, a black man from the south side of Chicago, has given comfort to the American alt-right, a euphemism for America's resurgent racist, Islamophobic, anti-Semitic, misogynist and xenophobic voting bloc ostensibly attached to the Republican Party.

2018-06-06 18:22

Elon Musk is a genius, but his flamethrower is stupid

It's great for California to have billionaire visionaries like Elon Musk creating next-generation technology. But even geniuses can have bad ideas. And selling flamethrowers in a time of record wildfires in California is a really bad idea.

2018-06-06 18:19

Venezuelans deserve refugee status

Venezuela is in the news again. Through unprecedented treachery, President Nicolas Maduro awarded himself victory in the presidential election on May 20. Given that the blatantly pro-government electoral council had delisted the three main opposition parties and disqualified two major political leaders, much of the opposition boycotted the process. The two other candidates who participated did not recognize the result, given the many violations that took place. Neither did the United States, Canada, the European Union and most Latin American countries.

2018-06-05 15:36

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