Thursday, March 28, 2024

Super Tuesday victories are nice, but Trump was already a 'winner'

"We have expanded the Republican Party," Donald Trump declared in Palm Beach, Florida, as he discussed his Super Tuesday primary wins. "We are going...

How the Oscars' social activism took on Hollywood

With Chris Rock, an acerbic black comedian, set to host Sunday night's Oscar broadcast in Hollywood, even as Al Sharpton led a protest outside...

Saudi economy faces a challenging year ahead

Leading economists are forecasting that the economic slump in Saudi Arabia, caused in large part by the dramatic collapse of oil prices, is set...

Space mining race heats up, but whose asteroid is it anyway?

Space mining, extracting resources from near-earth asteroids, is "not science fiction any more". With these words, spoken by Jean-Jacques Dordain, the former director general of...

El Nino's end offers ray of hope for the distillate market

Britain's Labour Party adopted the song "Things can only get better" as its campaign anthem for the 1997 general election, expressing the party's ambitions...

Rise in petrol prices and woes of commuters

The slight increase in petrol prices has started taking a toll on average Saudis and residents. The drivers transporting students and female teachers are demanding...

Why Russia may be a smart business partner for Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir famously lamented that Moses "took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one...

Appoint a few more Scalias, kiss democracy goodbye

Republican presidential candidates such as Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) have pledged to appoint a justice like Antonin Scalia to the U.S. Supreme Court, if...

'You get one shot' How Justice Antonin Scalia viewed the world

After Justice Antonin Scalia's death at a remote West Texas hunting resort last weekend, I remembered how he had described his passion for the...

How Antonin Scalia's death reshapes the 2016 election

The U.S. Supreme Court is supposed to be the solution to gridlock. But as the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia makes painfully apparent,...

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