The Korea Herald

[Noah Smith] Trump did nothing to help economic boom

Jul 23, 2020

The public gives President Donald Trump very low marks for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and race relations. But as recently as the end of June, the public was still giving him slightly po...
[Arvind Subramanian] China has blown its historic opportunity

Jul 23, 2020

Until recently, China was unmistakably trying to be a hegemon in the image of the United States, increasingly complementing its growing hard power with soft power. But China seems to have missed its ...
[Ivo Daalder] Trump drives Iran toward China

Jul 22, 2020

In May 2018, President Donald Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal because it was “defective at its core.” But if Tehran were willing to negotiate a better agreement, h...
[Kim Seong-kon] Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf

Jul 22, 2020

In the famous fairy tale “Red Riding Hood,” a girl goes on an errand to bring food to her sickly grandmother who lives in the woods. Aware of this, the Big Bad Wolf rushes ahead to her grandmother’s ...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Russia can’t afford to trip up in the vaccine race

Jul 21, 2020

Moscow researchers say one of the country’s potential coronavirus vaccines has been proven safe in small-scale human trials and is ready for wider tests. It should be a modest win for a country that ...
[Trudy Rubin] Attack on patriotism and US economy

Jul 20, 2020

When White House officials bullied Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman into retirement this month the damage surpassed the ruination of a patriotic officer's career. Vindman is the decorated Iraq war veteran...
[Noah Feldman] Supreme Court’s future hinges on the 2020 election

Jul 20, 2020

The blockbuster Supreme Court term that just ended was a (nearly) unmitigated disaster for movement conservatives. Chief Justice John Roberts declined to overturn precedent on abortion rights. Conser...
[Robert J. Fouser] Joe Biden’s campaign challenges

Jul 17, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed the presidential campaign in the US. In a normal election year July, the party out of power crowns its nominee, and the party in power does so a few wee...
[Theresa Raphael] Poland’s vote a warning to Americans, too

Jul 16, 2020

Two decades ago, Poles could only look on in bewilderment. Americans were so divided over who should be president that the 2000 election hung on a dimpled chad and had to be decided by the Supreme Co...
[Kim Myong-sik] Local office chiefs enjoy old-fashioned prestige

Jul 16, 2020

South Koreans bid farewell to two prominent people last week amidst noises about the mixture of respect and scorn shown in accordance with the people’s ideological divide. Half a million citizens pe...
[Anjani Trivedi] China is winning the 5G war

Jul 15, 2020

China is building tens of thousands of 5G base stations every week. Whether it wins technological dominance or not, domestic supply chains may be revived and allow the country to maintain -- and adva...
[Kim Seong-kon] When we are proud of our judges

Jul 15, 2020

Recently, a BBC reporter, Laura Bicker, wrote via Twitter, “Prosecution in South Korea are asking for an 18-month sentence for a man who stole 18 eggs because he was hungry.” This was the same amoun...
[Andreas Kluth] How do we face our racist past?

Jul 14, 2020

The past is never dead. It’s not even past. William Faulkner’s famous line comes from a harrowing tale about two women in Mississippi. One is a Black nursemaid, Nancy, who is to be hanged for the mu...
[Gregory A. Maniatis] Don’t scapegoat migrants for the pandemic

Jul 14, 2020

Let’s be clear: COVID-19 initially spread around the world as a result of well-heeled travelers returning home from cruises, foreign skiing holidays, and international conferences. But many wrongly p...
[Trudy Rubin] Crackdown on HK dangerous for world

Jul 13, 2020

When China imposed a draconian new security law on Hong Kong last week, I grabbed my phone to call some young pro-democracy activists I’d met there in November. Then I put the phone down because I r...