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Mon, April 19, 2021 | 14:28

An end to US deployment in Afghanistan

President Joe Biden's expected announcement Wednesday that he will begin removing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the month and complete the withdrawal by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terror attacks that provoked the war, will finally bring to a close direct American military involvement there.

2021-04-18 16:59

Post-COVID 'cave syndrome'

A few weeks ago I wrote a column in which I briefly referred to the concept of “cave syndrome.” The term was coined by a psychiatrist in Florida to describe people who are feeling scared or unwilling to reenter post-pandemic society - even after being vaccinated - because they have grown too accustomed to isolation.

2021-04-15 16:40

Europe is heading toward new financial crisis

Europe faces a predicament. Even as it struggles to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, it's setting itself up for another crisis - this one financial. To ensure the viability of the common currency at the heart of the European project, the EU's leaders will have to cooperate in ways they've so far resisted.

2021-04-15 16:38

Racism is serious threat to public health: CDC

Racism is a serious threat to public health, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared last week. The federal agency was a little late to a conclusion long backed by streams of research and other medical groups. The American Public Health Association says there are more than 170 municipalities that have embraced the concept.

2021-04-15 16:30

Curing violence pandemic

When President Joe Biden announced his executive action last week to deal with the nation's surging violence, most attention understandably went to his plans to stop the proliferation of so-called ghost guns - firearms that can be hastily assembled from untraceable kits.

2021-04-14 16:53

Toward more tolerant US Navy

Racist and sexist speech and discriminatory actions have no place in America's Navy, and the service branch is mounting a determined campaign to root them out. That's the strong message from the Navy's comprehensive new study of diversity and equality - or the lack thereof - in the ranks.

2021-04-13 16:33

Biden's infrastructure plan is key to US competition with China

Anyone who has visited China in the past decade knows why President Joe Biden is pushing so hard to overhaul U.S. infrastructure.

2021-04-12 17:06

Financial cooperation can help fight pandemic

The International Monetary Fund's new economic forecast offers encouragement to the world's rich countries. They're on track to recover strongly from the pandemic. For many poorer countries, the opposite is true: The end is not in sight, the pandemic is still getting worse, and their economic losses are mounting. Their debts, in many cases, will prove unsustainable.

2021-04-12 17:05

Difficult diplomacy ahead regarding Iran

With President Joe Biden in the White House, the United States and Iran are inching back to the bargaining table over a nuclear deal.

2021-04-11 17:42

America should share vaccine with the world

As more Americans roll up their sleeves for a potentially life-saving vaccination, we are called by moral imperative and social justice concern to reflect on the reality that countries without the Western world's economic capital are being left behind.

2021-04-08 17:02

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