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Opinion

Sunday 10/April/2016 16:07 PM

Learning from Libya

There are important lessons to be learned from what went wrong with the NATO-led military intervention in Libya in 2011. US President Barack Obama was right...

Saturday 09/April/2016 16:46 PM

Why US infrastructure costs so much

The US ought to be spending more on infrastructure. This is the view of all right-thinking people, and as a right-thinking person I of course endorse it....

Saturday 09/April/2016 16:37 PM

Who's losing in US election? Big Business

Almost lost in the tragicomic presidential election is the deep and growing antipathy toward Big Business. It comes through in the candidates' rhetoric,...

Saturday 09/April/2016 16:27 PM

The rise of German isolationism

In Germany’s recent regional elections, voters delivered a resounding rebuke to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party, the Christian Democratic Union. With...

Saturday 09/April/2016 16:14 PM

Sowing the seeds of Syria’s future

We are at risk of producing a lost generation of young Syrians. Nearly six years of civil war have displaced them from their homes, denied them the chance...

Friday 08/April/2016 16:50 PM

Dutch voters snub Kiev, not Brussels

It's easy to discount the outcome of Wednesday's Dutch referendum on Ukraine's association agreement with the European Union as another sign of...