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-Essay- Among the many things that COVID-19 taught us, one is to not measure the world by latitude. Take the case of Milan, a shining example, we’re told, of northern Italian industriousness and efficiency that’s supposedly absent in the south. And yet this capital of the Lombardy region saw one of the world’s worst COVID-19 […]
The U.S. Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th century took inspiration from the minds of freed American slaves and abolitionists like Frederick Douglass and black artists and poets like Langston Hughes. But there was also a central place in that history for a soft-spoken lawyer from the western coast of India. Dr. Martin Luther King […]
-Analysis- PRAGUE — From a geopolitical perspective, the Czech Republic is a case apart. After four decades of being “abducted” to the East (as writer Milan Kundera, for one, described the era of Soviet communism), it has spent 30 years as part of the West, first as part of Czechoslovakia, with its Velvet Revolution, and […]
A mix of love and hate mirrors their own feelings about Beijing.
President López Obrador has failed spectacularly to manage the pandemic and its economic repercussions.
There’s a whole lot of money and prestige at stake as researchers across the globe scramble to develop a vaccine. Does this help or hurt the cause?
Colombia is a prime example of how overspending and indebtedness leave little room for error, and why it’s important to take a new approach moving forward.
Viruses spread, mutate and then become deadly because humans destroy the areas where wild animals live. We must learn from this, once the coronavirus pandemic is contained.
Latin American countries are, for the most part, appreciative of Beijing’s donations of much needed medical supplies. But the goodwill isn’t guaranteed to last forever.
Nature has its ways, and in the end, the pandemic will pass. But will humankind be able to return the favor and save that planet that still nurtures us?
After weeks of denial and manipulation, China wanted to play the role of a caring superpower. But something about its soft-power push went awry.
The pandemic and the response to it threaten to exacerbate entrenched economic and social disparities.
The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated tensions between Beijing and Washington. It’s time that cooler heads prevail, and Germany has just the right person for the job.
A strategy for fighting the pandemic, national confinement morphs into a dangerous ideology if it uses the pretext of health protection to target migrants.
Given its reliance on both oil and tourism, the Mexican economy is in major trouble. So far, though, President López Obrador has refused to have the state take on new debt.
The health crisis is real. But so too are the economic costs of an extended lockdown, which will soon become unmanageable on all sides.
Communities across the globe are all grappling with the same scourge. And yet, the pandemic is also fueling an every-nation-for-itself mentality. Where will it lead us.
Do we need to see influencers in their designer pajamas?
Governments everywhere are telling residents to stay put, but their policies regarding some of the most vulnerable members of society raise a whole new series of risks.
There’s risk of a veritable ‘coffeecide,’ as farmers are forgoing tradition and trying to cash in on the craze for Haas avocados.
Troubled as Venezuela may be, it is a major, and needy, market right next door to Colombia. Double standards should not apply, especially when there are national interests at stake.
If murder and kidnappings in Mexico were a contagious disease, the country’s feeble response and impunity rates would already have turned them into the most destructive of pandemics.
As the ‘center’ continues to shift rightward — in India and elsewhere — people need to do more than just push back against the powers that be.
Two projects with billionaire Elon Musk’s name on it help highlight that the cause of saving the planet is a messy affair.
Thanks to its diplomatic skills and scientific resources, Argentina is uniquely positioned to serve the interests of the precious continent.
The provincial leadership structures in the two countries operate in very different ways, particularly when it comes to incentives.
France abides by the legal notion that the human body is inviolable, and thus prohibits the sale of organs. The same should go for data, otherwise the inequalities of the digital divide will deepen.
The debate about Angela Merkel’s successor shows that her CDU party is lacking in powerful women to take the party forward. As strange as it seems, her party still has a long way to go to achieve gender equality.
After the killing of nine in the western German town of Hanau, it is clear the state must do more to crack down. But the responsibility extends much farther.
‘Where do we go to die, when we have lived thousands of lifetimes in a world that was not made for us?’
Nine years after the Jan. 25 popular revolution that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak, so much of the hopes failed to materialize. But not everything.
Mediation may well be what Venezuela needs to climb out of its deep political crisis, but it can’t come from Cuba.
The country’s food and drug administration should be careful about rubber stamping medical products and procedures just because they’re shiny and new.
MOSCOW — Nowadays, if you want to hear the Russian language spoken properly in Moscow, you have to go to an upscale restaurant. Anything less posh is occupied by people coming from Central Asia, any one of the ‘stan republics lying between the titans: Russia and China. But beyond the Ural Mountains, they say, it […]
Cash use is declining, but don’t expect it to disappear. Still, there is another popular payment method that could in fact go the way of the dodo, a Deutsche Bank strategist argues.
The epidemic unnerving the world originated in the Wuhan shellfish market, where other local delicacies are sold. But does that matter?
Modern languages are rich, beautiful and complex, and took ages to develop. Hearts and smiley faces? Not so much.
It is the most delicate of roles right now, as Father Georg continues to serve his original boss, retired Pope Benedict XVI, while also heading the Papal household of Pope Francis.
After the U.S. assassination of General Soleimani and Tehran’s accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian passenger jet, rising economic and political pressures have put Islamic rule in its most fragile state in memory.
A sudden rash of constitutional changes, and the government’s subsequent resignation, looks to be a maneuver for Putin to hold on to power indefinitely.