Tag: Opinion

COVID, near Year 3, still stinks for everyone — but spare an extra thought for our Olympians. Bad luck means that they must take their once-in-a-lifetime chance in authoritarian China in the middle of a global pandemic, terrified that they’ll test...

After an astonishing 20-year run with Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots, Tom Brady won his seventh championship ring last year, at the age of 43, as he led the Tampa Bay Buccaneers over the Kansas City Chiefs. Then he almost swamped...

“Friends,” a character intones in the new film Munich: The Edge of War. “History is watching us.” Now streaming on Netflix, the movie is a fictionalized portrayal of the 1938 Munich Agreement when the British and the French, hoping to avert...

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, experts who have relied on prevention tactics such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates have been humbled by the massive spread of the omicron variant. Even a group of health advisors to Biden’s transition now acknowledge...

I read a recent article in the New York Times about the use of robotic therapy cats and Alzheimer’s patients. At first, I thought it was offensive to elderly patients, as well as live cats who should give treatment themselves. But...

TPublic demonstrations and storming of government buildings in Kazakhstan serve as a warning to the Kremlin about Russia’s future. Although the Kazakh protests were clearly manipulated by rival factions of the ruling elite, it was another warning to Moscow that public...

I recently read an article describing a book and its author who “raised in Kenya and has family connections to Indians, blacks and whites”. Note that “Indians” and “Blacks” are capitalized, not “Whites”. Perhaps the author of the article felt that...

Image source: AP Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a video keynote at the opening ceremony of the annual conference of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) led by Xi Jinping appears to have morphed into a...