Hal Brands, Bloomberg
Putin took cyberwar to a new level, and the U.S. could show some weapons it has kept hidden.
H. Roberts, Pol.
Laura Onofri, an economics professor who has lived in Venice for 18 years, said the December floods triggered flashbacks to last year's disaster. "I felt sick with anxiety. I thought I had got over the trauma but it brought back the anger and the sense of helplessness."
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Michael MacArthur Bosack, Japan Times
2020 was a year full of things no one predicted for Japan: a global pandemic, a postponed Tokyo Olympics and a prime ministerial resignation, to name a few. While many will be sighing in relief at the prospect of a new year, the roller coaster ride for Japanese politics is not over. 2021 will still be a year to watch as we could yet again see a change in administration.
Baher al-Kady, Al Monitor
CAIRO — The Egyptian government is seeking to breathe new life into the historical downtown area of Khedivial Cairo. In coordination with the Ministries of Tourism and Antiquities, the National Organization for Urban Harmony and a number of Egyptian state institutions, Cairo governorate started painting the facades of buildings and shops in the area in one unified color. This comes in the wake of the completion of the...
C. Rondeaux, WPR
Jonathan Freedland, Guardian
The loss of public figures can be strangely intimate. When we mourn them, we are mourning our own loved ones too
Victor Gilinsky, The Bulletin
No country has made military use of a nuclear bomb since the United States dropped the second one, on Nagasaki. "One of humanity's remarkable achievements," the conservative columnist George Will called it. But do we imagine that this pause will go on forever? There are signs that restraints on nuclear weapon use are weakening. If they fail, and a nuclear weapon is used, the...
Barbara Demick, The Atlantic
