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Sun, March 7, 2021 | 02:24

Don't bring America's longest war to end just yet

President Joe Biden, a longtime critic of U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan, can't be eager to preside over the 20th anniversary of what is already America's longest war. But if he's to secure U.S. interests and give Afghans a chance at achieving peace, he won't have much choice.

2021-03-04 16:19

Abolishing Peace Corps would be mistake

“Why should you, a white woman, go work in Africa?” The question was from an African-American newsroom colleague, and it knocked me back. It was the late 1990s, and I had just announced that I was joining the Peace Corps, assigned to a remote public health post in Zambia, in southern Africa.

2021-03-04 16:16

US should care about Lee in Hong Kong

US should care about Lee in Hong Kong

Watching the confirmations hearings for Judge Merrick Garland as U.S. attorney general reminded me of a tragic trial in process in Hong Kong.

2021-03-03 16:32

US must step up to help WTO succeed

The new head of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, starts work this week. Hopefully she likes a challenge. She takes charge of an institution once seen as vital for global prosperity but now widely regarded as moribund, and she'll need to contend with a new climate of opinion that seems to regard free trade as passe and measures to build domestic economic resi...

2021-03-03 16:30

N. Korea's cyber kleptomania threat to capitalism

Sometimes missed on North Korea's voluminous list of human rights abuses are its serial cyber kleptomania and global criminal schemes to rip off the world's financial systems. Just days ago, we got a grim reminder of the massive cyberthreat it poses to global finance.

2021-03-02 17:25

Kindness gap: Prude's death should spur wholesale change in mental health care and policing

Read all of New York Attorney General Tish James' report on Daniel Prude, a 41-year-old Black man who died last March in Rochester police custody.

2021-03-02 17:24

Powell's reassurance and question for future

The stock market applauded Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's testimony to Congress Feb. 23, rebounding on his assurance that an increase in interest rates is nowhere in sight. Powell's message was well-grounded as well as reassuring - but there's no disguising the challenges that lie ahead for monetary policy.

2021-03-01 17:49

How to improve Affordable Care Act

Here's some news from 2020 that seems almost good: Despite heavy job losses during the pandemic, the proportion of Americans without health insurance didn't spike, as you might have expected. Some employers maintained their coverage. Many of those who lost their employer-provided policies picked up Medicaid coverage instead. And others bought individual policies on the state ...

2021-02-28 16:33

Long, slow demise of Israel-Palestine peace process

Long, slow demise of Israel-Palestine peace process

Twenty-five years ago last week, I rushed to the scene of a powerful explosion in downtown Jerusalem. A 22-pound bomb packed with nails and ball bearings and live bullets had been detonated on the No. 18 bus at 6:46 on the morning of Feb. 25.

2021-02-28 16:32

Can US repair its broken politics?

More than a week after Donald Trump's acquittal in the Senate, and not before time, attention is turning more squarely to President Joe Biden and his agenda. Unfortunately, it's already clear that moving past the political turmoil that Trump inflicted on the U.S. will be difficult.

2021-02-25 16:33

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