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Saturday 07/January/2017 14:31 PM

Free speech and fake news

inShare1 PRINCETON – About a week before the United States presidential election last November, someone posted on Twitter that Hillary...

Saturday 07/January/2017 14:13 PM

Donald Trump’s North Korean family values

With every new US president arriving in Washington, DC, come a handful of counsellors and aides whose personal ties, built over years and forged in election...

Wednesday 04/January/2017 22:20 PM

Trump’s tax plan and the dollar

Now that Donald Trump has been elected president of the United States and Republicans control both houses of Congress, corporate tax reform is coming to...

Wednesday 04/January/2017 22:00 PM

Rethinking labour mobility

The past year will be remembered as a period of revolt against what US President-elect Donald Trump likes to call “globalism.” Populist movements have...

Wednesday 04/January/2017 20:52 PM

Philippines jailbreak

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Wednesday 04/January/2017 14:52 PM

The house GOP's big blunder

Did the House Republicans already suffer their first defeat of 2017? Or is their retreat only tactical and temporary? After voting on Monday night to gut...

Wednesday 04/January/2017 14:35 PM

The abandonment of progress

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan are remembered for the laissez-faire revolution they launched in the early 1980s. They campaigned and won on the promise...

Tuesday 03/January/2017 21:34 PM

Trump, North Korea nuclear threat

Times of Oman designers depict a world around them through illustrations everyday, either to enhance the visual elements of a story or as a standalone...

Tuesday 03/January/2017 15:17 PM

Japan takes on its workaholics

The same problems come up again and again in discussions of what Japan needs to do to revive its economy. The first is low white-collar productivity. The...

Tuesday 03/January/2017 15:03 PM

Charting our artificial-intelligence future

Galileo viewed nature as a book written in the language of mathematics and decipherable through physics. His metaphor may have been a stretch for his...