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A list of true international terrorism sponsors

Feb 20, 2011

Last fall, President Obama offered a sweet deal to one of the most reviled regimes on Earth: If the government of Sudan would allow a referendum on secession by the southern half of the country and a...
The Democratic Party of Japan’s losing streak

Feb 20, 2011

The results of the Nagoya mayoral and Aichi gubernatorial elections Feb. 6 were miserable for the Democratic Party of Japan, highlighting the DPJ leadership’s inability to think strategically to win ...
[Gregory Rodriguez] What are the ties that bind us?

Feb 20, 2011

Multiculturalism breeds terrorism. That’s what British Prime Minister David Cameron said Feb. 5 in a high-profile speech in Germany, thereby opening up an absurd new chapter in the never-ending debat...
[DAVID IGNATIUS] Where now, a week after Egypt revolt?

Feb 20, 2011

CAIRO ― There’s still a glow of liberation here, a week after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak. Young activists hand out flowers to visitors at the airport, and there is exuberant flag-waving at...
[Michael Smerconish] Reading the judges on U.S. health care

Feb 20, 2011

I fear that Roy Cohn had a better understanding of American justice than John Adams. It was Adams who in 1780 sought to instill a sense of separate yet balanced power in the Massachusetts Constituti...
[Daniel Korski and Ben Judah] The West’s Middle East pillars of sand

Feb 20, 2011

LONDON ― Two centuries ago, Napoleon’s arrival in Egypt heralded the advent of the modern Middle East. Now, almost 90 years after the demise of the Ottoman Empire, 50 years after the end of coloniali...
[Doug Gurian-Sherman] GM crop giants block independent research

Feb 20, 2011

Soybeans, corn, cotton and canola ― most of the acres planted in these crops in the United States are genetically altered. “Transgenic” seeds can save farmers time and reduce the use of some insectic...
Timing right for new Middle East peace talks

Feb 18, 2011

Talk of reviving Arab-Israeli peace talks amid Arab world turmoil might seem counterintuitive, even crazy, to many Middle East watchers, but now is exactly the time to seize a rare opportunity. Last...
Japan as No. 3 can still hold its head high

Feb 18, 2011

China’s economic output as measured in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms passed Japan’s in 2001, going by International Monetary Fund data. Measured in current exchange rate terms, China’s gross do...
[William Pesek] Goldman’s picks can’t beat ‘7% Club’ on sexiness

Feb 18, 2011

Is anyone else a bit BRIC-ed out? Hey, I completely get the importance of Brazil, Russia, India and China as emerging powers, growth engines and, perhaps, role models. Yet ever since Goldman Sachs G...
[David Ignatius] Islamic radicals pose threat in Egypt

Feb 18, 2011

CAIRO ― For much of the past 30 years, the shadowy Muslim Brotherhood was almost a raison d’etre for the regime of President Hosni Mubarak: Egypt needed a strong authoritarian regime, the argument we...
[Cai Fang] China faces challenge of development mode

Feb 18, 2011

The Fifth Plenary Session of the 17th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, held in mid-October, put forward a proposal for the 12th Five-Year Plan for national economic and social develo...
[Editorial] Egypt’s uprising may one day extend to China

Feb 18, 2011

While the resignation of Egypt’s authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak may have only set the course for the difficult transition to democracy for Egypt, Feb. 11 will be remembered as the day the peop...
[Xiao Gang] Euro’s destiny tied to the future of globalization

Feb 18, 2011

In the wake of Europe’s woes, more and more voices from European countries and beyond have been calling for the euro to be abandoned. Surveys in France show that more than 35 percent of the responden...
No breaktrough in inter-Korean dialogue

Feb 17, 2011

Low-level, preliminary military talks between North and South Korea at the Panmunjom truce village collapsed on Feb. 9 when the North Korean delegation abruptly stormed out. It had been hoped that th...