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Killing the goose that lays the Olympic gold medal
Oped, Nancy Qian, Published on 24/02/2026
» The Olympic Games have always been about more than sports, with the medal count serving as a measure of national vitality. The 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina are no different. The Americans, like everyone else, want confirmation of their preeminence. So important is that outcome that even US Vice President JD Vance briefly acknowledged the value of non-white immigration to the United States when he complained that Eileen Gu, the US-born medal-winning skier for China, should be competing under the American flag.
Beach clean-up
Postbag, Published on 17/08/2025
» Re: "Clock ticks as plastic talks drag on", (Opinion, Aug 15).
Truth, justice and the ICC's very broken compass
Oped, Orna Sagiv, Published on 30/11/2024
» In 1998, when the Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) was adopted, Israel's representative, Judge Eli Nathan, expressed both optimism and concern for the Court's future.
What climate change requires of economics
News, Daron Acemoglu, Published on 07/10/2021
» This summer's record-breaking heat wave in the American northwest offered a reminder -- as if it were needed -- of what anthropogenic climate change will mean for living conditions now and in the future. Average global temperatures have already risen to 1.2C above pre-industrial levels and could increase by another 5C over the next 80 years. This warming is hastening the extinction of many species and rendering parts of the world less hospitable for human habitation. By some estimates, climate change may force more than one billion people to migrate by 2050.
Fake faces peddling false news as US poll looms
Oped, Philip J Cunningham, Published on 03/11/2020
» It's hard to know what to believe these days, as weaponised tweets and deliberate disinformation spread around the world like wildfire, leaping from the internet to traditional press outlets, sowing confusion in the public commons.
Autocratic regimes are digging their own graves
Oped, Andrew J Nathan, Published on 18/08/2020
» Authoritarian regimes often enjoy more public support than democratic governments do. To discover why, my colleagues and I administered the Asian Barometer Survey in four waves across 14 Asian countries between 2001 and 2016. What we found, is that authoritarian regimes actually suffer from acute near- and long-term vulnerabilities.
Black 'lynching' radio ad illustrates racial overtones
News, Maria Caspani, Published on 23/10/2018
» Many political ads in this year's US elections pack an unusually harsh and personal punch -- some with racial overtones.