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Observing the green swans
By Helene Rey - Jun 20, 2021 - Last updated at Jun 20, 2021 22:25
LONDON — The statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb coined the term “black swan” to describe improbable, hard-to-predict events that can have a ...
A digital bridge to social support
By Laura Alfers - Jun 16, 2021 - Last updated at Jun 16, 2021 22:49
JOHANNESBURG — For all its devastation, the COVID-19 crisis does have a silver lining: it has shone a spotlight on important policy lapses — ...
America’s flawed search for itself
By Zachary Karabell - Jun 16, 2021 - Last updated at Jun 16, 2021 22:48
NEW YORK — Recently, the US podcaster-provocateur Joe Rogan made headlines by saying that, given America’s current cultural trajectory, stra ...
Switzerland’s Brexit moment
By Georg E. Riekeles - Jun 15, 2021 - Last updated at Jun 15, 2021 22:36
BRUSSELS — The Swiss government’s recent withdrawal from long-running negotiations on a framework agreement with the European Union has trig ...
The government: From service provider to empowerment
By Ibrahim Saif and Samar Obaid - Jun 14, 2021 - Last updated at Jun 14, 2021 23:20
By Ibrahim Saif  and Samar ObaidIn its abstract form, the word “bureaucracy” bears a negative connotation. ...
How human nature can combat climate change
By Alexander De Croo - Jun 14, 2021 - Last updated at Jun 14, 2021 23:20
BRUSSELS — Both the COVID-19 pandemic and global warming are about survival, and are health crises at their core. ...
Does NATO have an arms-control brain?
By Adam Thomson - Jun 14, 2021 - Last updated at Jun 14, 2021 23:19
LONDON — Under Donald Trump, NATO was lucky just to stay alive. ...
The virus next time
By Kevin Rudd - Jun 13, 2021 - Last updated at Jun 13, 2021 22:26
BRISBANE — As more developed countries begin to feel as though they have made it to the other side of the COVID-19 crisis, two striking real ...
International and Jordanian scholars called for moving mountains
By Jabbar Al Obaidi and Laura McAlinden - Jun 12, 2021 - Last updated at Jun 12, 2021 22:22
By Jabbar Al Obaidi and Laura McAlindenIt wasn’t a surprise nor a typical cliché to hear over and over again this compliment: “Jordan is nic ...
School reopening cannot wait
By Takeshi Kasai and Karin Huslof - Jun 12, 2021 - Last updated at Jun 12, 2021 22:21
By Takeshi Kasai and Karin HuslofMANILA/BANGKOK — With the COVID-19 pandemic now well into its second year, safely reopening schools has bec ...

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