New attempt on Crimea bridge shows US policy risks

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​asia times​​​ by Stephen Bryen TASS, the Russian State news service, says that an attempt by Ukraine to blow up the Kerch Strait bridge to Crimea was prevented when the Russians blew up a Ukrainian →

Washington Can’t Create Rivalries, It Can Only Exploit Them

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​national interest​​​ by Mark N. Katz The National Interest recently published an article I wrote entitled, “Getting Smart about Dividing America’s Adversaries.” A critique of my article was →

Why the US and West are so keen to act as ‘victims’

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​global times​​​ While on a visit to the Fukushima region on Thursday, US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said that he expected the US to support Japan should China's ban on Japanese seafood develop →

Biological clocks: how does our body know that time goes by?

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​conversation​​​ The circadian clock mechanism was first discovered in the fruit fly, also known as Drosophila, in the 1970s. It is based on feedback loops in the transcription and translation of →

How a German Energy Law Became Part of the Culture War

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​foreign policy​​​ As much of the world endures a summer of record-breaking temperatures, Germany is stuck debating a very different kind of heat: the future of the radiator. A controversial law →

Shooting at Louisiana high school football game kills teenager and wounds woman

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​nbc news​​​ By Associated Press PORT ALLEN, La. — Gunfire broke out during a high school football game on a warm late-summer evening in Louisiana, killing a 16-year old student and wounding a woman →

A classical lullaby helped reduce newborns’ pain during heel pricks

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​science news​​​ By Aimee Cunningham The soothing tones of a classical lullaby may help to relieve the pain newborns can feel from routine medical procedures. The mellifluous method could be a →

Waste no more: EU-funded project uses AI to transform wastewater processing

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​brussels times​​​ By Margherita Bassi The EU co-funded project was launched in 2022 and will run until February 2026 with a budget of over €3.5 million and eight partner institutions from Belgium, →

College Football and the Open Society

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​american conservative​​​ Howe Whitman III In 1905, college football was almost banned for what Theodore Roosevelt called its “brutality and foul play.” Nineteen players died that season (ninety-five →

Thurmond denies knowing Biden in 1964

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​ american thinker​​​ By Silvio Canto, Jr. The book of Biden stories has a new chapter. According to Biden's memory, he convinced the late senator Strom Thurmond to vote in favor of the Civil Rights →

BRICS Wants to be Non-Aligned Movement 2.0—It Could Also End as a Dud

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​national interest​​​ by Leon Hadar Readers of a certain age may recall the time in the 1950s and 1960s when the so-called Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was the rage on the international scene, igniting →

The Roots of Taiwanese Skepticism of American Commitment

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​national interest​​​ by Yang Kuang-shun Many Taiwanese identify themselves as the “Orphan of Asia,” not only due to the island nation’s long history of being ruled by foreign rulers but also because →

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