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Caesarean Births “Affecting Human Evolution”

December 7, 2016
Recent studies have suggested that rapid changes in the environment can speed evolutionary responses. Increasing reliance on Caesarean sections contributed to more mothers requiring surgery to deliver infants, suggests theoretical biologist Philipp Mitteröcker at the University of Vienna. Helen...

Pakistan, Obsessed Over India, Risks Anarchy

August 21, 2014
Hope was brief for easing a long troubled relationship after Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif traveled for the May inauguration of Narendra Modi as India’s prime minister. Sharif, who won in a 2013 landslide victory, now confronts protests from the opposition as the Pakistan military and agitators thrive on...

Arms Race Threatened on India-China Border

September 5, 2016
India has deployed supersonic cruise missiles to Arunachal in the northeast, and China promised counter-measures. India developed the missiles with Russia. “The deployment of the cruise missiles is the latest in what is starting to look like an arms race between the two countries, which have...

China’s Strategy in US Car Market: Make Parts First

September 21, 2015
Chinese automakers may eventually become a global force in the auto industry. Rather than follow the Japanese model of importing cars, Chinese firms are acquiring US and European auto parts plants. “By first learning to make and sell car parts in markets like the U.S., leaders in China’s auto...

US Bills South Korea $5 Billion: Korea Times

November 20, 2019
South Korea hosts US bases and more than 25,000 troops, contributing to the costs. The Trump administration wants the country to pay $5 billion for maintaining that presence. South Korea suggests that the request lacks specifics, showing a lack of respect for allies. “Such concerns were greatly...

Conservative Causes Go Global

January 16, 2013
Global civil society has long been ideologically diverse and hard fought over many years, as demonstrated with the anti-slavery or suffrage movements. Causes with global stature carry greater prominence than local or national efforts, giving supporters access to more allies, resources and shared...

Korean “Peace” Olympics Raises Tension Between Seoul and Washington

February 6, 2018
War on the Korean Peninsula would be catastrophic. North Korea has nuclear capability while South Korea depends on an alliance with the United States, the world’s largest military. Even hardliners on North Korea like former US national security official Victor Cha – no longer under consideration...

The Guardian: Global Pollution Threatens Human Survival

October 20, 2017
Humans tend to ignore threats that are slow emerging or ubiquitous – and pollution is such a threat. “Toxic air, water, soils and workplaces are responsible for the diseases that kill one in every six people around the world,” writes Damian Carrington for the Guardian. He describes a report by the...
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