Donald Trump won the US presidency with less than a majority vote and governs with a level of support that struggles to reach 40 percent. The administration’s ineffective policies reflect a larger society that thrives on “an unrelenting barrage of crude and voyeuristic entertainments, most of which...
Reality TV presidency: Donald Trump shows his own rubber mask; Willie Robertson, actor with reality TV show Duck Dynasty, addresses the Republican National Convention
LAFAYETTE, INDIANA: Even now, polls suggest that about 40 percent of Americans...
Urbanization’s many pressures make it easier for people to alter long-held customs. For example, in Bhutan, city dwellers didn’t protest a rule aimed at protecting forests by reducing the number of prayer flags to mourn a loved one’s death, explains Cathy Shufro in an article for Yale Alumni...
Prayer flags for the dead never posed a problem in Bhutan until people began moving to cities.
In the Tibetan Buddhism practiced here, mourners honor the dead by flying 108 white flags, each attached to a tall wooden pole. They plant the poles on...
World population nearly quadrupled during the 20th century, and in early March, US National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair told the Senate Armed Services Committee Tuesday that by 2025 it could grow by another 1 billion people. That would put pressure on the global environment as well as on...
Growing pains: In countries like Indonesia, population is growing fast, while in Japan and Europe it's in decline
NEW YORK: The dangers of population explosion hit newspaper headlines as the US intelligence chief warns about it. Indeed the world...
Some citizens accrue more benefits from open and free markets than other citizens, and growing income inequality has become a major issue in elections around the globe. Wealth among nations is evening out. Yet within some nations and communities, those that don’t use taxes or government programs to...
LINDAU, Germany -- Globalization and technology have increased income inequality around the world, four Nobel Laureates in economics argued, and governments should intervene to try to help those at the bottom...
Fortune cookies are popular in Chinese restaurants the world over, everywhere but China. Japanese researcher Yasuko Nakamachi theorizes the absence is because the cookies originated in Japan, as evidenced by references in Japanese literature and art decades before the early 1900s. California...
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Any discussion on free trade must include a discussion of free immigration, for it is people that produce the goods that are to be traded. If the producers are not free to move, then trade itself is not free. As the writer Balakrishnan argues, “immigration cannot be ignored in any global compact on...
TODAY WHEN you say `globalisation' you may be understood as having in mind either the historical trend or a contemporary project, and this is no academic distinction. Of these, the trend is easy to comprehend. It is a...
British intelligence sources have helped Israeli officials arrest an alleged bomb expert suspected to be a trainer of Palestinian militants. The suspect is linked to the Real Irish Republican Army, a more hawkish faction that does not accept the ceasefire of 1998 in Northern Ireland. Although it is...
JERUSALEM - A member of the Real Irish Republican Army arrested by Israelis in the West Bank on Saturday has denied being there to train Palestinian militants to use explosives.
The man, John Morgan, 40, was...
En sólo tres décadas, China ha dejado de ser uno de los países más pobres, para convertirse en la segunda economía más grande del mundo. Sin embargo, en palabras de Yanzhong Huang, un senior fellow para Salud Global del Council on Foreign Relations de Washington DC, el rápido crecimiento chino se...
The dark side of growth: Forty percent of China’s rivers are polluted (top); China, dubbed the world’s factory is badly regulated
NUEVA YORK: De haber sido uno de los países más pobres del mundo a estar sólo detrás de los Estados Unidos, China está...
