Opinion
China’s Brutal Covid Winter
Nancy Qian
CHICAGO – Last month, China ended its zero-Covid policy, bringing a tumultuous end to restrictions after nearly three years. The suddenness of the...
Israel Was Never a Democracy: So Why is the West Lamenting End of ‘Liberal’ Israel?
RAMZY BAROUD
EVEN before the new Israeli government was officially sworn in on December 29, angry reactions began emerging, not only among Palestinians and other...
America’s New Era of Industrial Policy
Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca
BERKELEY – A new breed of industrial policy is taking hold in the United States. Under President Joe Biden’s leadership,...
Culture of Hope: 2022 and the Margins of Victory in PalestineÂ
RAMZY BAROUD
ANOTHER critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing...
Bitterly Divided, Pakistan Stands at Unprecedented Crossroads in 2023
THE new year sees Pakistan at an unprecedented crossroads. A painful and messy reconfiguration of the country’s political order over the past year has...