Repentance is hard. Obtaining true forgiveness is even harder. So it is no surprise that over the ages, people have tried to find shortcuts around the difficult chores of changing one’s ways and being forgiven for going astray. This week’s New Yorker carries the story of one such effort: the activities of the world’s largest […]
As one of them said this week, sarcastically referencing Trump’s 2016 promise: “I’ll be honest with you, I really am starting to get tired of all the winning”.
The world is placing all its chips on one outcome when it comes to climate change, writes CLARE FRANCES, but ignoring the obvious question
“Run” (润) has been one of the hottest words in the Chinese language since 2021. A clever wordplay on both the Chinese pronunciation and English meaning of the word, “run” refers to the recent trend of emigrating from an increasingly restrictive and authoritarian China for greener pastures overseas. This emigration wave, which began shortly after […]
There is more than one way forward
Such an environment makes the duty of the press to verify its facts even more solemn.
The world is awash with disturbing news: war in Ukraine, war in Israel, Europe going down the tubes, RFK Jr running as an independent (how dare he?). While World War III could well be upon us, the most grievously underreported story — an event that essentially never was in US media — occurred in the […]
Ardern-mania subsides
‘All Lives Matter’
The Third Way, a rural, conservative party, is expected to win 55 seats effectively giving it the balance of power writes MATT TREACY.
Poles have learned the hard way that there are no holidays from history.
Who will claim victory?