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Sun, September 22, 2019 | 16:49

Populism: It's automation, stupid

Five of the world's largest democracies now have populist governments, claimed The Guardian recently, and proceeded to name four: the United States, India, Brazil and the Philippines. Which is the fifth? At various points it name-checks Turkey, Italy and the United Kingdom, but it never becomes clear which. (And by the way, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not a populi...

2018-12-05 17:08

How to help reforestation in North Korea

Deforestation and land degradation is a global problem, impacting the well-being of at least 3.2 billion people by accelerating climate change, loss of biodiversity and the reduction of goods and services of ecosystems.

2018-12-02 16:48

Brexit deal sets up crunch December vote

Sunday's emergency EU summit of 28 presidents and prime ministers unanimously passed the U.K.'s withdrawal Brexit deal. Yet, the decisive and historic step comes amid further political tumult in London where there appears to be no majority in the Westminster Parliament for the deal that would end almost four-and-a-half decades of membership of the Brussels club.

2018-11-27 16:59

Saudi Arabia does more harm than good

President Donald Trump doesn't understand his chief responsibility as president. It is not to make deals and create jobs. It is to protect the security and liberty of Americans. By that standard, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is not a “truly spectacular ally,” as he claimed.

2018-11-26 17:41

North Korea's hidden revolution

Jieun Baek's “North Korea's Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society” (2016, Yale University Press) examines how media flows secretly into and out of North Korea, as well as how this information affects North Korean society.

2018-11-21 17:26

Social trust cures 'jobless growth' disease

On Nov. 9, President Moon Jae-in replaced two economic policy chiefs. His new picks are presidential chief of staff for economic policy Kim Soo-hyun and finance minister nominee Hong Nam-ki.

2018-11-19 17:43

War remembered but lessons forgotten

World leaders met in Paris to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the armistice which ended the Great War in 1918. The solemn gathering convened by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, saw 80 heads of state among them. U.S. President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined together for th...

2018-11-18 17:41

What went wrong in Eastern Europe?

I first met Viktor Orban, the not-quite-dictator of Hungary, in 1989 in Budapest - and the man who introduced us was none other than George Soros.

2018-11-14 17:19

Luddite prophecy

Sometimes I think the Luddites had a good idea. With all the advances in technology and society's total reliance on computer chips, we could be in big trouble. Let's face it; we're addicted to technology.

2018-11-13 17:49

Global order under stress on WWI anniversary

Seventy heads of state and government, including Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, commemorated in Paris Sunday's centenary of the end of World War I. The landmark event, hosted at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier underneath the Arc de Triomphe, has prompted much reflection on the state of international relations today given the parallels with the early 20th century.

2018-11-12 17:18

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