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All wiped out
Oped, Postbag, Published on 01/07/2025
» Re: "Trade deal optimism lifts Asian shares", (Business, June 28).
The unheralded Bronx teens behind 'breaking'
Oped, Thomas Guzman-Sanchez, Published on 10/08/2024
» The Olympians competing in the inaugural breaking exhibition event at the Paris Games are sure to perform incredible feats of acrobatics while music plays. But you won't catch them doing actual rhythmic dance outside of a few shuffle steps.
Congratulations, Elon! You won the 'cage fight'!
News, Dave Lee, Published on 18/08/2023
» The optimal time to have abandoned the idea of a cage match between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg would have been the very moment it was first suggested. The second best time is right now.
Long pandemic is giving way to 'virus fatigue'
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/01/2022
» The most dangerous consequence of Covid fatigue, however, is the magical thinking that it induces even in some health professionals. “It’s been so long; surely it will be over soon” is a wish, not a scientific statement.
Reinvigorating multilateralism
Oped, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Jacinda Ardern Stefan Lofven, Cyril Ramaphosa, Macky Sall & Pedro Sanchez, Published on 30/09/2021
» Last year, the United Nations conducted a worldwide consultation involving more than one million people from 193 countries. The feedback pointed to some important facts. And this year's UN General Assembly must respond by bolstering rules-based multilateralism.
'New normal' needs clarity
Oped, Editorial, Published on 30/05/2020
» With the latest round of reopenings set for Monday, the time has come for the powers that be to lay out a longer-term roadmap for the future of the country in the post-Covid-19 era.
Tribalism fuels today's politics
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/11/2019
» 'Homo economicus" is dead. Long live "homo tribuarius"!
The year of the woeful world leaders
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 28/12/2018
» The dictionaries have decided on their 2018 words of the year. Oxford picked "toxic". Merriam-Webster went for "justice". Collins chose "single-use". However, I'd zero in on "misgovernment". Surely, 2018 saw a number of countries misruled by the worst crop of world leaders in recent memory.
How to stick it to Europe: scrap Brexit
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 06/12/2018
» The top European court now is highly likely to rule that the UK can cancel Brexit unilaterally. For all the domestic political hurdles such a move would face, it's intriguing to ponder how Europe would take it if the UK did cancel Brexit, and what the consequences would be for the European Union.