While traveling in Africa in the ’80s and ’90s, I was surprised to see Chinese crews building roads, schools and houses. Although at the time this meant...
China’s family planning policy of the 1970s – as an urgent and necessary measure to limit the growth of its huge population – prevented an estimated 400...
A new and widespread corruption scandal implicating businessmen with former Kirchner administration officials, may have unforeseen consequences for...
After enacting a “zero tolerance” policy toward all adult immigrants crossing the border into the U.S., in effect separating parents from their children and...
The shots followed quickly: pat, pat, pat, pat! Seconds before it was a scene of jubilation: the crowd gathered at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles to...
It is now over 70 years after what was perhaps the most important trial in the history of mankind. What makes this circumstance particularly significant is...
President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the deal with Iran creates, unnecessarily, a new source of tension in a region besieged by conflicts. Given...
In 1901, when Dr. Alois Alzheimer started talking to Auguste Deter, a 50-year-old patient, he immediately realized that there was something wrong with her....
In many cultures and in older times obesity in children was a sign of good health. This is not the case any longer. According to a U.S. National Institute of...
The recent denunciations by several young women who claimed they were sexually abused by Senate nominee Roy S. Moore – some of them when they were younger...
Recently, as I picked up a book from my bookcase, I realized that one word in its title had the answer to a problem that for months had been bothering me. The...
On a global scale, the magnitude of undiagnosed and unaddressed mental health problems continues to be high. It is estimated that 330 million people globally...
No one would have imagined that one of the greatest truths about American foreign policy would come from President Donald Trump during an interview with Fox...
“When we got the diagnosis we felt like they had put a gun to our face,” a friend told me recently. His daughter had been diagnosed with...
In 1964, the magazine Fact published the article “The Unconscious of a Conservative: A Special Issue on the Mind of Barry Goldwater.” The article included the...
Last October, before he was elected president of the United States, I, among others, put forward the hypothesis that Donald Trump was a narcissist. I based my...
Donald Trump has shown he has no rivals using Twitter, a technique that he has mastered and that serves him to attack enemies, deflect attention and settle...
When the communists took over mainland, the literacy rate in China was below 20 percent. It is now 95 percent, according to some estimates.The same rate among...
The United States’ abstention on the U.N. Security Council anti-settlement resolution is a serious blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policy of...
As a young medical student in Argentina I had been fascinated by Fidel Castro and his rebel combatants and followed with interest their advance from the...
“Apologize!” was President elect Donald Trump conclusion of two messages he wrote to the cast of Hamilton, one of the most successful Broadway musicals in...
After its questionable debate performance, it seems that Mr. Trump’s carefully constructed political persona may be starting to deflate. Although his...
There was a gasp of surprise at the Rio Olympic Games when American swimmer Michael Phelps won his 19th Olympic gold medal and helped his team win the...
President Barak Obama’s recent decision to issue a color-coded response plan for the U.S. federal government to deter major cyberattacks, underscores the...