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George Will
COMMENTARY
Feb 25, 2014
Breaking the United Auto Workers union's grip
The most important U.S. election this year will not be in November, when more than 90 million votes will be cast for governors and national legislators. The most important one occurred in Tennessee last week when factory workers' rejected representation by the United Auto Workers union.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 24, 2014
Ukraine's agony may be final Cold War episode
Ukraine's agony is a reverberation of the protracted process of cleaning up after the Soviet Union 'experiment.' So, this is perhaps the final episode of the Cold War.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2014
President Obama’s magic words and numbers
President Barack Obama's critics should reconsider their assumption that he is cynical. It is his belief in magic words and numbers that is scary.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2014
The Affordable Care Act's four-word Waterloo?
If the defense of a state prerogative, filed in federal court by Oklahoma's attorney general, succeeds, the decline of Obamacare will accelerate.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 14, 2014
Markets take a back seat under gesture liberalism
Building the Volt hybrid car was bailed-out General Motors' gesture of obeisance to its Washington masters when, in fact, U.S. auto sales have cruised back to 2007 levels thanks to Americans' fondness for pickup trucks and SUVs.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2013
U.S. 'sledgehammer' justice sidelines the judge
'Sledgehammer' justice waged against nonviolent repeat offenders in the U.S. is said to have removed the role of judges and to have turned prosecutors into sentencers.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2013
This Thanksgiving let's pardon these turkeys
This Thanksgiving, give thanks for 2013, a year the future might study more for amusement than for edification.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 26, 2013
The unraveling of Barack Obama's presidency
When it comes to Obamacare, U.S. President Barack Obama is like someone who burns down your house. Then shows up with an empty water bucket. Then lectures you about how defective the house was.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 1, 2013
The chance to underscore political self-dealing
By forcing Democrats to dramatize their perverse priorities in order to halt a government shutdown, U.S. Republicans can turn to completing the neutering of the Obama presidency.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2013
When the fury of isolationism roamed America
It is preposterous to equate today's mild debates in America about foreign policy with the furies unleashed by, and against, real isolationism before World War II.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2013
The Bay of Pigs operation was a perfect failure
The CIA should release its final volume of its official history of the Bay of Pigs invasioni. America needs all the caution its history of misadventures should encourage.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 11, 2013
Syria presents a constitutional moment for U.S.
No congressional vote about Syria can damage the U.S. presidency as much as Barack Obama has done by overreaching.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2013
Voices from the scarlet calamity of World War II
World War II's reverberations will roll down the centuries in its geopolitical consequences, and in the literature it elicited in letters and in histories like Rick Atkinson's trilogy on the liberation of Western Europe.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 22, 2013
Court rebukes flouting of nuclear waste policy
Nowadays the U.S government leavens its usual quotient of incompetence with large dollops of illegality, as evidenced by the 'law-flouting' Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 16, 2013
Returning to Egypt's preferable state of tyranny
Former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi knows neither Thomas Jefferson's advice that "great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities" nor the description of Martin Van Buren as a politician who "rowed to his object with muffled oars." Having won just 52 percent of the vote, Morsi pursued...
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 7, 2013
Never mind Obama's hedge on the rule of law
President Barack Obama acts as if he can simply post a 'never mind' notice on the White House website if he finds a law's details politically inconvenient.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 2013
At the Battle of Gettysburg, choices mattered
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought 150 years ago this week, was not the first example of 'total war.' But it did show why choices matter in U.S. history.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 29, 2013
Time caught up with the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Progressives resent progress — such as the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on voting rights — that renders anachronistic once-valid reasons for government control.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2013
Echoes of Watergate in IRS scandal
The nature of President Barack Obama's administration is being clarified as revelations about IRS targeting of conservative groups merge with myriad Benghazi mendacities.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 27, 2013
Korematsu highlights danger of waiving constitutional rights
The 1944 U.S. Supreme Court affirmation of the wartime power to intern 'enemy' racial groups provides a sober reminder after the Boston bombings.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
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