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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...

Tuesday 03/January/2017 14:45 PM

The five lessons of populist rule

Jarosław Kaczyński, Poland’s de facto leader, has become, next to Donald Trump, an avatar of the populist threat to the Western democratic model. As we...

Tuesday 03/January/2017 14:29 PM

“America first” and global conflict next

Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States does not just represent a mounting populist backlash against globalisation. It may also portend...

Monday 02/January/2017 15:17 PM

My 2017 prediction? Nothing will change

At the end of each year, commentators traditionally reflect on emergent themes likely to shape the future. The current consensus identifies two themes for...