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[William Pesek] Roubini’s next crisis is scary food for thought

Feb 14, 2011

Forget Egypt for a moment. Skip the water crisis in China. Look past angst on the streets of Bangladesh. If you want to see how extreme the effects of surging food prices are becoming, look to wealth...
[Peter Singer] We need more elephant mothers than tiger mothers

Feb 14, 2011

MELBOURNE ― Many years ago, my wife and I were driving somewhere with our three young daughters in the back, when one of them suddenly asked: “Would you rather that we were clever or that we were hap...
[Caroline Baum] Bernanke’s worst nightmare is this man’s boxes

Feb 13, 2011

Ben Bernanke arrived at his office a week ago and came face to face with his worst nightmare. Staring out at the Federal Reserve chairman from page C1 of the Feb. 3 edition of the Wall Street Journa...
English-only in the United States? Press ‘no’

Feb 13, 2011

For years it was a bogeyman for those discomfited by immigration, particularly from Mexico: The United States was evolving into two nations, only one of which would speak English. If it was ever true...
[Alfred Stepan and Juan J. Linz] Egypt government needs a Pharoah?

Feb 13, 2011

NEW YORK ― As Egypt’s revolution hangs in the balance, what factors are most likely to determine the outcome? While all eyes seem to be focused on the army, watching to see which way it will jump, ot...
[William Pesek] Mr. 210% sees M&A boom in Japan as best deflation slayer

Feb 13, 2011

Steel company mergers are a little below Timothy Geithner’s radar. Yet the U.S. Treasury secretary should think long and hard about a recent one in Japan. On the surface, Nippon Steel Corp. and Sumi...
[Brahma Chellaney] The mystery of the Karmapa Lama

Feb 13, 2011

NEW DELHI ― The seizure by police of large sums of Chinese currency from the Indian monastery of the Karmapa Lama ― one of the most-important figures in Tibetan Buddhism ― has revived old suspicions ...
[Naomi Wolf] WikiLeaks’ release of cable: A press without principles

Feb 13, 2011

NEW YORK ― Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is in the news again, this time after former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer turned over to him confidential records on roughly 2,000 wealthy individual...
Competition feeding drive for healthier food

Feb 11, 2011

The broad strokes of the “2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans” report released last week are elegantly simple: Eating is and should be as pleasurable as it is necessary, but we also need to eat le...
U.S. must reverse its image as apologist

Feb 11, 2011

While much attention focuses on how gracefully to dislodge President Hosni Mubarak from his 30-year reign, the Obama administration should be asking how U.S. policies helped him remain in office that...
[Tim Rutten] Beware Islamists in the wings

Feb 11, 2011

From the American perspective, the transition now underway in Egypt confirms John Kenneth Galbraith’s famous appraisal of politics as a choice between “the disastrous and the unpalatable.” What the ...
[David Ignatius] Struggle is just beginning in Egypt

Feb 11, 2011

WASHINGTON ― Wael Ghonim, the charismatic young Google executive who helped launch the protests in Tahrir Square, sounded the trumpet in a first Twitter message Thursday afternoon: “Mission accompli...
[Editorial] New questions raised about death penalty

Feb 11, 2011

Imagine what was going through the mind of Taiwanese Air Force private Chiang Kuo-ching as he was being led to his execution in August 1997. What a horrifyingly surreal moment it must have been for t...
[Editorial] Temple of gloom

Feb 11, 2011

ASEAN unity is again under strain as Cambodian and Thai troops keep up their animus over an 11th-century temple astride their common border. Ownership of the Preah Vihear Hindu temple had been determ...
[Editorial] War only means both countries stand to lose

Feb 11, 2011

There are people in both Thailand and Cambodia who want their soldiers to go all the way. The problem is, even though this might bring the territorial dispute to a conclusion, it would only be for th...