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[Tyler Cowen] In defense of the German saver

If there is one thing the world should have learned over the last decade, it is that politics is usually more symbolic than pragmatic. A good policy attached to the wrong symbols can fail, while impr...

Aug 7, 2019
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[Mahfuz Anam] 'Praise Freedom' is new press freedom

Press freedom was a fundamental pillar of modern civilization. Nearly all countries, save the communist bloc and dictatorial regimes, ensured special protection for the media in their constitutions....

Aug 7, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] The moment we become emotional, we lose the battle

Regardless of our nationality, we all have merits and flaws. Of course, it all depends on people, but sometimes we unwittingly exhibit collective characteristics that contribute to the public image o...

Aug 6, 2019
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[Tyler Cowen] Greta, It’s OK to fly

Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, recently announced that she would cross the Atlantic Ocean by boat to attend a United Nations global warming summit in New York. She does not...

Aug 6, 2019
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[James Stavridis] What Iran will do next, and how to stop it

Predictably, Iran is reacting badly to the announcement that Europe is planning to send a multinational naval force to protect merchant ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. “We heard that they...

Aug 5, 2019
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[Andy Mukherjee] Why ordinary Singaporeans are spending faster than the rich

Singapore is Asia’s Monte Carlo: a playground for the wealthy. The city-state has two casinos, an annual Formula One race and the third-highest concentration of ultra-rich individuals after Monaco an...

Aug 5, 2019
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[Jean Pisani-Ferry] The upcoming clash between climate and trade

The incoming president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has laid out a highly ambitious climate agenda. In her first 100 days in office, she intends to propose a European Green Deal,...

Aug 4, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Debaters seemed eerily like “America First” Democrats

Last week’s Democratic presidential debates included little substantive discussion of foreign policy -- even about an imminent troop-withdrawal agreement for Afghanistan -- and most of the candidates...

Aug 4, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Putin reminds Russians he can do suppression

July 27 saw a new post-Soviet era record set in Moscow: 1,373 people were taken into custody following a day of protests. Meanwhile, jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny suffered a strange “allerg...

Aug 1, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Trump’s dangerous intelligence shakeup

Among intelligence professionals, President Donald Trump’s nomination of an inexperienced, partisan politician to oversee America’s spy agencies prompted deep dismay -- but also a stolid reaffirmatio...

Aug 1, 2019
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[Kim Myong-sik] Defender of justice or enforcer for power?

A star is born, one too bright to behold without wondering how long it could burn. Yoon Seok-yeol, South Korea’s new prosecutor-general, has already led investigations into “past evils” for two years...

Jul 31, 2019
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[John Bernstein] Now or never for these Democratic candidates

It’s time for the Democrats to winnow. Twenty presidential candidates were set to debateTuesday and Wednesday. It’s their second round, and the last with so many candidates split over two nights. Af...

Jul 31, 2019
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[Jongsoo Lee] Explosive combination of history, trade and territory

The recent escalation in tension between Japan and South Korea has created an explosive situation. Both sides must do all they can to defuse tension, and the global community -- including the United ...

Jul 31, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] Rereading Richard Kim’s ‘The Martyred’ in 2019

When I first came across Richard Kim’s “The Martyred” in 1967, I was an intellectually adventurous and emotionally vulnerable college freshman. At the time, I was intrigued and mesmerized by the nove...

Jul 30, 2019
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[Robert J. Fouser] An effective response to the global populist wave

Last spring, a Korean friend used the phrase “things people can still do” in broad conversation about business and current events. Last week, I was reminded of the phrase when I took a ride in a driv...

Jul 30, 2019
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