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Monday 20/November/2017 14:30 PM

Carbon pricing takes off

The hurricanes that pummeled the Caribbean, Texas, and Florida this year left highways submerged, homes and businesses demolished, and lives lost. The...

Monday 20/November/2017 14:21 PM

Capitalizing on climate unity

When Donald Trump was elected U.S. president a year ago, some said the end of the Paris climate agreement was nigh. Yet, as the latest round of global...

Monday 20/November/2017 14:13 PM

The pandora’s box of the digital age

Is the world sliding dangerously toward cyber Armageddon? Let us hope not; but let us also apprehend the threat, and focus on what to do about it. One...

Sunday 19/November/2017 14:27 PM

The upgrade myth

From the pocket calculator to the Prius, I’ve always been what they call an “early adopter.” I was a technology enthusiast, a lover of progress, eager...

Sunday 19/November/2017 14:24 PM

The moral urgency of mental health

If we can prevent great suffering at no cost to ourselves, we ought to do so. That principle is widely accepted and difficult to dispute. Yet Western...

Sunday 19/November/2017 14:16 PM

The eternal return of the plague

“Fearsome Plague Epidemic Strikes Madagascar.” That recent New York Times headline might sound like the synopsis of a horror movie. The epidemic...

Saturday 18/November/2017 20:53 PM

Maduro offers to help Trump fight drugs

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...

Saturday 18/November/2017 16:13 PM

Feeding Myanmar’s refugees

The Rohingya refugee camp in the Bangladeshi port city of Cox’s Bazar is a sea of metal roofs as far as the eye can see, shimmering under an unrelenting...