During Governor Dukakis's 90th Birthday Celebration held on November 2, 2023, at Harvard University Loeb House, Senator Ed Markey delivered his remarks through video: “Good evening, everyone. What a tremendous honor it is to be celebrating the birthday of the man, the...
Minh Nguyen is the Editor of the Boston Global Forum and a Shinzo Abe Initiative Fellow. She writes the Four Pillars column in the BGF...
Contrary to the long-accepted assertions of officials who served in the Nixon administration, President Nixon's "secret'' diplomacy to establish ties with Mao Zedong's China was well known to Taiwanese officials as the diplomacy, mostly conducted from the U.S. side...
This Bloomberg story looks at how a man trains computers to find future criminals through algorithms. The article says: "Risk scores, generated by algorithms, are an increasingly common factor in sentencing. Computers crunch data—arrests, type of crime committed, and...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that the United Kingdom's decision to leave the European Union has "thrown a spanner in the works" of its global economic growth forecast. The IMF's 2017 growth forecast for the U.K. has been slashed to 1.3 percent...
Boxed areas contain islands claimed by China. China's state media said the government plans to put offshore nuclear-power platforms to promote development in the South China Sea. Such a development could make it much more difficult to militarily stop the increasingly...
Dictatorships tend to support other dictatorships in order, in part, to discourage democracy. Thus it was no surprise that the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad sides with China's claim to virtually the entire South China Sea -- in opposition to the decision of a...
Russian President Vladimir Putin won't admit to the massive state-sponsored doping of Russia's would-be Olympic athletes because that might be seen as admitting that Mr. Putin himself is a criminal. And so, Bloomberg reports, "Putin appears less and less willing...