US President Obama’s recent decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan may be his last chance to solve the worsening situation. It is a gamble likely to define his presidency. And, as former intelligence official and Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution Bruce Riedel writes, the...
WASHINGTON: Until Tuesday evening the Afghan war was a Bush legacy. It is now President Barack Obama’s war and history will judge him on the success of his bold gamble to send more troops to Afghanistan.
The situation there is dire and...
In a tightly interconnected world, the consequences of one nation’s recklessness can spread quickly. Foreign policy shortcomings invite immediate responses from other states, and their institutions evolve accordingly. As individual nations expand military prowess, others follow suit, compounding...
Core lessons: Good governance and prosperity for the United States require policies that respect science and basic needs; Codepink protesters at the March for Science in Washington, DC, recall the wisdom of Albert Einstein, and nurses care for an...
Space flight has contributed many innovations with applications on Earth including LEDs, firefighting technologies and freeze-dried foods just to name a few. NASA has developed a stabilizing technology that prevents rockets from shaking and will also help protect buildings against high winds and...
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Europe is the world’s largest producer of wines. But in the EU, wine consumption is decreasing, even as inexpensive imports enter the market. About 15 percent of wine produced in the EU goes unconsumed, and the EU invests hundreds of millions of euros to turn unwanted wine into cheap cleaning...
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The expansion of global trade eroded the status of national and local unions. Yet as many workers in the world’s wealthiest nations worry about the status of their jobs, politicians who want to win and stay in office increasingly respond to the anxiety by pandering to unions. “After decades of...
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The shopping boulevards in London, Paris, Dubai and other cosmopolitan cities, once crowded with enthusiastic Chinese shoppers, are near empty due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus. The coronavirus has placed more than 50 million people under quarantine in China, and 70 other countries imposed...
In the US, spectators applaud excellent athletes regardless of national origin or race, according to the author. However, he says, this is not the case in South Korea, where national pride compels spectators to call foreign players "mercenaries" and domestic athletes to hinder their...
As most sports fans know by now, Korean woman golfers have become a dominating force on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) circuit in the United States. They were doing so well that no less than five...
There is a long history of companies embracing and spurring social progress, intentionally or not. Tim Harford recounts the history of the sewing machine. A workshop owner rented out space to would-be inventors in 1850 and asked Isaac Merritt Singer, a reported womanizer with three families who did...
