Global leaders are failing youth, and 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg addressed 60 world leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit about the need for urgent action on climate change, warning “we’ll be watching you.” Her assessment was concise, blunt and searing: “People are suffering. People are...
Nine years after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the world shares a perception that suicide attacks are unusual acts committed by the poor, the psychologically impaired, the morally deficient, the uneducated or the religious fanatics. Yet analysis of more than...
Life as a weapon: In Sri Lanka, Tamil Tiger suicide bomber hits a Sinhalese procession
ADELAIDE: Nine years ago, 19 young Muslims commandeered passenger jets and killed themselves, taking with them 2973 people to the inferno of fire. Since the 9/11...
In her recent book, World on Fire, Yale University professor Amy Chua argues that it is the resentment of long-standing minority domination that has so much of the world’s citizens ready to take up arms. Pat Sewell examines the author’s contentions and assesses her sweeping proposals for solving...
Anti-Chinese riot in Indonesia, 1998
Many Americans trust that unleashed markets and universal suffrage elsewhere will yield general material betterment, domestic tranquillity, and amity among democracies old and new. Thomas Friedman proclaims a...
Refugee camps around the world are under urgent threats of COVID-19 due to high density and lack of necessary medical supplies. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, there are more than 70 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, most of whom dwell in low- and middle-...
The conflicts of the modern world are deeply rooted in centuries of history. Historians and social scientists could do more to develop research across disciplinary, regional and national boundaries, argues Peter Perdue, professor of history at Yale University. “Everyone knows that we live in a...
Forgotten connections: Chinese permitted the Portuguese a leasehold in Macau in 1557 which served as a conduit for Sino-Japanese trade, top; demonstrators in Beijing protest Japanese occupation of Senkakus
NEW HAVEN: When Chinese Communist Party...
The US president won by promising to give voice to voters who felt forgotten by government elites and threatened by global competition. “The reality so far is the opposite of what was promised, yet the base is largely still with him,” explains economist David Dapice. In office less than a year, the...
No health care, but dose of coal dust: Coal miners’ support for US President Donald Trump weakens environmental protections, and repealing the US Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, would reduce health protections.
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Manufacturers reduced costs by relocating factories to China where wages were low and regulations few. Researchers from China, Britain and the United States published a study in Nature Geoscience that suggests China’s role in producing goods for the West is contributing to a changing climate for...
The air pollution China generates in producing goods for Western consumers is changing the climate in East Asia, a recent study shows.
But the “world factory’s” reliance on coal and lack of pollution control technologies also contributes to its high...
Bombs have ripped through Tashkent, Uzbekistan's capitol. While no group has claimed responsibility, officials have suggested foreign terrorists and Muslim radicals as the possible cause. But many Uzbeki's are more likely to blame the widespread discontent with President Islam Karimov...
A series of bombings and shootings March 29 left at least 19 people dead and dozens more wounded in Uzbekistan, according to official reports. Authorities confirmed two suicide bombings at the main bazaar in the Uzbek...
