Jerusalem WHEN an American presidential candidate visits Israel and his key message is to encourage us to pursue a misguided war with Iran, declaring it “a solemn duty and a moral imperative” for America to stand with our warmongering prime minister, we know that something profound and basic has changed in the relationship between Israel and the United States. My generation, born in the ’50s, grew
Bulent Kilic / AFP / GettyImagesSyrian Kurds hold their rifles, as they flash the sign for victory, in the Kurdish town of Jinderes, near the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on July 22, 2012 For many years, the Kurdish tragedy was poignantly illustrated by the gifts and sweets stuffed through gaps in a barbed-wire fence, the babies held high and the news shared across the closed Syria-Turkey borde
To the Editors: Jared Diamond provides an engaging review of our book Why Nations Fail [NYR, June 7]. Though Diamond accepts the importance of institutions and their political roots—the main focus of our book—and asserts that “perhaps they provide 50 percent of the explanation for national differences in prosperity,” his review is mostly concerned with defending an alternative perspective, which w
中国の国営メディアは、5日夜、習近平国家副主席の避暑地での動静を伝えました。この避暑地は、毎年夏に共産党の指導部や長老が集まって人事や重要政策を非公式に話し合う場所で、今回の動静報道は、秋の党大会に向け、次の最高指導部のポストを巡る駆け引きが本格化していることをうかがわせています。 中国国営の中央テレビは5日夜のニュースで、次の最高指導者の地位を固めている習近平国家副主席が、中国北部・河北省にある避暑地の北戴河で、各界の専門家らと面会したと伝えました。 北戴河は、毎年夏に共産党の指導部や長老が集まって人事や重要政策を非公式に話し合う場所です。 5日夜のニュースは非公式会議について触れていませんが、指導部のほかのメンバーも習氏と同席したと伝えており、非公式会議がすでに始まったか、開催目前で、秋の党大会に向け、次の最高指導部のポストを巡る駆け引きが本格化していることをうかがわせています。 共産
Chemotherapy can undermine itself by causing a rogue response in healthy cells, which could explain why people become resistant, a study suggests. The treatment loses effectiveness for a significant number of patients with secondary cancers. Writing in Nature Medicine, US experts said chemo causes wound-healing cells around tumours to make a protein that helps the cancer resist treatment.
The company that spooked the worldThe success of China’s telecoms-equipment behemoth makes spies and politicians elsewhere nervous BANBURY, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake, is an unlikely fulcrum for the balance of power in the world of telecoms. But the “Cyber Security Evaluation Centre” set up there by Huawei, a Ch
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