• OPINION

  There's nothing special about democracy in US

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/01/2021

  » If I have to read one more hand-wringing article about the "crisis of American democracy" and what it means for the world, I'm going to retch.

• OPINION

  Indonesian poll serves up a curious outcome

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/02/2024

  » Indonesia's President Joko Widodo concluded his second five-year term last Tuesday with a national election in which his chosen successors won a convincing victory. "Jokowi", as everybody calls him, still enjoys 70% public approval, and he has every right to be proud of his past.

• OPINION

  2024: the year it got (really) hot

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 01/01/2024

  » The year 2023 has probably been the hottest in the past 10,000 years -- but everybody agrees that 2024 will be even hotter. That's because we are now entering El Niño, the part of a seven-yearly oceanic cycle that heaps extra heat on whatever is already occurring.

• OPINION

  Is it the end of populism, or just a pause?

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/06/2023

  » We're going to miss the populist "big beasts" now that they're gone. Who will now tell us that "Voting Conservative will cause your wife to have bigger breasts and increase your chances of owning a BMW M3"? (Boris Johnson) Who will describe Barack Obama as "handsome, young and also suntanned"? (Silvio Berlusconi)

• OPINION

  2 failed populist coups: Compare and contrast

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/01/2023

  » Pundits are making much of the similarities between the attempted coup in Washington by Trump supporters two years ago and the one by Bolsonaro supporters in Brasilia on Jan 8, but they are missing the biggest one. These debacles were the most incompetent and half-hearted attempts to seize power illegally in the history of the world.

• OPINION

  How to stop sea level rise at its source

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/06/2022

  » 'Ninety percent of ice flowing to the sea from the Antarctic ice sheet, and about half of that lost from Greenland, travels in narrow, fast ice streams measuring tens of kilometres or less across. Stemming the largest flows would allow the ice sheets to thicken, slowing or even reversing their contribution to sea-level rise."

• OPINION

  Hypersonic missiles are a needless complication

  News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/11/2021

  » 'I saw in some of the newspapers they used the term 'Sputnik moment'," said General Mark Milley, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff. "I don't know if it's quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it's very close to that. It's a very significant technological event that occurred."

• OPINION

  China and the US: Too big to be equal?

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/09/2021

  » Never mind the destruction of the relatively free society of Hong Kong (no emergency airlift like in Kabul, Afghanistan, but the number of people fleeing Hong Kong may ultimately be larger). Never mind the persecution of the Uighurs, or the Orwellian surveillance society that the Communist Party is building, or the tens of millions who died in wars, famines and "cultural revolutions" to bring equality to China.

• OPINION

  UFOs: The Silly Season is coming early

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/06/2021

  » Normally it happens in August, when wicked people all over the northern hemisphere temporarily stop doing evil things to take their children to the beach and enjoy the last of the summer. With no bad news to report, desperate journalists will run any story, however silly.

• OPINION

  Playing football won't turn boys into manly men

  Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/02/2021

  » It seemed innocent enough at the start: just a surge in the number of boys coming to school with notes from doctors saying they were excused from playing contact sports. But pretty soon high schools all over China were having trouble finding enough willing young men to make up a football team.

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