The top three global winners and losers in a Trump presidency Nov. 30, 2016 - 06:44AM JST ( 0 ) By Josh Cohen The world still has to wait for Donald Trump to flesh out the details of his foreign policy. Based on comments he's made so far, Russia and NATO are likely losers in the Trump era: Russia because of the U.S. president-elect's praise for President Vladimir Putin,… Read
Let's end scourge of landmines once and for all Opinions Nov. 29, 2016 - 05:19AM JST ( 5 Comments ) By Mark Hiznay In 1999, more than 100 countries converged on Mozambique’s capital, Maputo, for the first formal meeting of the Ottawa Treaty, or the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of… Read
For Trump, it's time to put statesmanship over showmanship Opinions Nov. 28, 2016 - 05:35AM JST ( 10 Comments ) By John Lloyd People live by stories. In our age, these stories are both fashioned by them through social media and for them by the mainstream media. Facebook and Twitter provide them with galaxies of real and virtual… Read
Could Trump save U.S. Mideast policy? Or just make it worse? Opinions Nov. 27, 2016 - 06:31AM JST ( 11 Comments ) By Peter Apps As the U.S. election results trickled in in the early hours of Nov 9, Syrian government forces began yet another assault on Aleppo - with humanitarian workers and medical centers again in the line of… Read
Putin will pay a high price for Trump's friendship Opinions Nov. 26, 2016 - 06:05AM JST ( 13 Comments ) By William Pomeranz Successful politicians usually enjoy their fair share of luck along the way. With the election of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin received the luckiest break of all. Instead of continued isolation, the Russian president will get… Read
What Trump should do about anti-Muslim hate crimes Opinions Nov. 25, 2016 - 04:13AM JST ( 19 Comments ) By Mohamad Bazzi In the five days after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, the Southern Poverty Law Center recorded more than 400 incidents of "hateful harassment and intimidation" of minorities. The center, which monitors hate speech… Read
Back to 1930s nationalism? Historians battle over comparison Opinions Nov. 24, 2016 - 06:29AM JST ( 14 Comments ) By AFP In the 1935 novel "It Can't Happen Here", an ignorant American demagogue called Buzz Windrip becomes president, promising to make a depressed and fearful country proud, rich and safe again. Eight decades later, the satirical… Read
Trump's NAFTA revamp would require concessions Opinions Nov. 23, 2016 - 06:00AM JST ( 2 Comments ) By REUTERS President-elect Donald Trump's plan to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to make it "a lot better" for U.S. workers would not be a one-way street for his administration, as Canada and Mexico… Read
Tech worker visas face uncertain future under Trump, Sessions Opinions Nov. 22, 2016 - 06:09AM JST ( 8 Comments ) By REUTERS The main U.S. visa program for technology workers could face renewed scrutiny under President-elect Donald Trump and his proposed Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions, a long-time critic of the skilled-worker program. H-1B visas admit 65,000… Read
Why I'm optimistic about Trump Opinions Nov. 20, 2016 - 05:56AM JST ( 29 Comments ) By John Lloyd I'm a Donald Trump optimist. Like the many who don't support him, I am alarmed that he won. But I don't believe he will be as bad as the worst fears. It's a very modest… Read
The fruits of oligarchy Opinions Nov. 19, 2016 - 06:01AM JST ( 5 Comments ) By Rachel Kleinfeld Two years ago, Professor Martin Gilens created one of the simplest, saddest graphs in the nation. It represents the degree to which the policy preferences of ordinary Americans affected policy making when their desires differed… Read