Opinion

Social media, congress and child safety

Binoy Kampmark: IT WAS a struggle to see how a child’s welfare was relevant in the latest, shrill debates about technology taking place on The Hill. The Senate Judiciary Committee

Gaza war and red cows of prophecy

How an arcane Old Testament legend and Rapture-ready Texas evangelicals may have helped set the table for Hamas’s October 7 attacks, writes Christopher Lord HAMAS plotted the Al-Aqsa Flood operation in

US toppling of Imran Khan

by Jeffrey D Sachs: A PRINCIPAL instrument of US foreign policy is covert regime change, meaning a secret action by the US government to bring down the government of another

Rise and fall of nationalism in Lankan north, south

Jehan Perera: THE election of Sivagnanam Shritharan as president of the ITAK has the potential to bring Tamil nationalism to the fore again. The ITAK is the largest Tamil political

Palestinians won in the Hague: So did rest of us

Patrick Lawrence: HALF a dozen years ago I sat in the lobby lounge at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan talking at length with Richard Falk, the scholar, lawyer, UN rapporteur,

Solving climate change, or else

Stan Cox: IN DECEMBER, the New York Times reported that ‘Earth is finishing up its warmest year in the past 174 years and very likely the past 125,000.’ (Though it’s

Costly failures of intelligence

by Melvin Goodman: ‘It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.’ — Yogi Berra THE investment in intelligence collection and analysis continues to grow, and the failures of

Legal bullying to silence campus critics of Israel

Michael Schwalbe: A SAD fact of jurisprudence in an unequal world is that good laws created to promote justice are often used perversely by the powerful to thwart justice. Title