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[Robert J. Fouser] South Korea as No. 1?

Last week, a BBC article from 2017 stating that life expectancy in South Korea would become the longest in the world by 2030 popped up on a social media feed. The article noted that life expectancy f...

Feb 12, 2019
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[J. Kyle Bass] Trump shouldn’t take the easy way out over China

When it comes to the trade talks with China, President Donald Trump and his negotiators have more leverage than any US administration has ever had. Chinese policymakers are desperate for a trade truc...

Feb 12, 2019
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[Editorial] Hanoi summit

Trump should get Kim to clarify denuclearization action plans

Feb 12, 2019
Editorial
[Editorial] Messy contest

Political sideshow threatens to derail main opposition party leadership race

Feb 11, 2019
Editorial
[Peter Singer] Money from opioid sales and tainted philanthropy

In 2017, life expectancy in the United States fell for the third successive year. The decline is occurring because an increase in the death rate for middle-aged whites is offsetting lower mortality f...

Feb 11, 2019
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[Hussein Ibish] What Iran means to Arab world

Iran has represented many things to many people during its 40 years of Islamic revolution. To the Arab world that surrounds it today, it’s both a danger and an excuse. Arab reaction to the 1979 Iran...

Feb 11, 2019
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[Jonathan Bernstein] Trump wants vacancies in his cabinet lineup

Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced his resignation on Dec. 20. He left the job at the end of the year. That was seven weeks ago, and President Donald Trump has not nominated a permane...

Feb 11, 2019
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[J. Bradford DeLong] Debt derangement syndrome

For the past decade, politics in the Global North have been in a state of high madness owing to excessive fear of government debts and deficits. But two recent straws in the wind suggest that this ma...

Feb 11, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] In Finland, money can buy you happiness

The first results of Finland’s two-year experiment with a universal basic income are in, and if they’re confirmed by further research, they will probably hurt the unconditional income cause. The tria...

Feb 11, 2019
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[Editorial] Risky demands

Renault warns striking workers in S. Korea they may lose consignment contract

Feb 10, 2019
Editorial
[Hal Brands] Don’t let China take the world hostage

Discussions of what China’s rise will mean for the world often take on an abstract, impersonal quality. We use terms like “international order,” “geopolitical competition” and “balance of power.” Yet...

Feb 10, 2019
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[David Ignatius] US strikes back at Russia warfare

With little public fanfare, US Cyber Command, the military’s new center for combating electronic attacks against the United States, has launched operations to deter and disrupt Russians who have been...

Feb 10, 2019
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[Mihir Sharma] Even the right American is wrong for World Bank

In many ways, David Malpass, whom US President Donald Trump nominated to head the World Bank, is an unsurprising choice. He’s a senior Treasury official overseeing international affairs. Plus, his ba...

Feb 10, 2019
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[Lionel Laurent] Emmanuel Macron is happy to fight with Italy

Emmanuel Macron has followed the old adage: Never waste a good crisis. As relations with Italy go from bad to toxic, the French president has taken the unprecedented step of recalling his ambassado...

Feb 10, 2019
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[Ann McFeatters] Our role model in the White House

All over America, teens have a new role model. Become president and you only have to work an hour or two a day. The rest is “Executive Time.” You can play golf nearly 50 percent of the time. You ca...

Feb 10, 2019
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