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[Robert J. Fouser] Strong measures needed to fight fine dust

The past weekend saw another wave of fine dust blanket Korea. Over the past 10 years, the frequency of waves of fine dust has increased steadily, causing people to worry about negative effects on pub...

Jan 15, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] Future of overseas students of Korean studies

I have taught English literature, comparative literature and Korean literature at American universities, such as Penn State, UC Berkeley and BYU, for over six years. Whenever I have taught English or...

Jan 15, 2019
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[Cass Sunstein] Trump’s emergency powers won’t get him a wall

Does President Donald Trump have the legal authority to declare a national emergency, and order the military to build a wall between Mexico and the United States? We are dealing with a novel questio...

Jan 15, 2019
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[Peter Singer] Too much gratitude?

Last November, Michael Bloomberg made what may well be the largest private donation to higher education in modern times: $1.8 billion to enable his alma mater, Johns Hopkins University, to provide sc...

Jan 15, 2019
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[Daniel Moss] Japan’s not back yet

Haruhiko Kuroda may rue the day he visited Nagoya. In a Nov. 5 speech to business leaders in the city, the Bank of Japan governor came close to declaring the end of deflation and the dawn of a new e...

Jan 15, 2019
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[Trudy Rubin] 2019’s real global security threats don’t include border crisis

As US President Donald Trump threatens to declare a state of emergency to counter a manufactured security crisis on the southern border, it’s worth looking at the real security challenges facing the ...

Jan 14, 2019
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[Bharat Dogra] SDGs and grim global realities

In recent times the development discourse all over the world has been heavily influenced by the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2015 for the year 2030. These goals are in ...

Jan 14, 2019
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[David Fickling] Xi’s leading China toward stagnation

The ambition of China hawks in the Trump administration is to maintain American dominance by halting China’s economic rise. It’s strange that President Xi Jinping appears to be working toward the sam...

Jan 14, 2019
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[Sachs, Schmidt-Traub and Fajans-Turner] Fully filling the global fund

The single most important public health measure of 2019 is the replenishment of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. These three diseases, which currently kill around 2.5 million ...

Jan 14, 2019
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[Bobby Ghosh] Pompeo gives Arabs a dose of Trump cynicism

It was mendacious, petty, deeply cynical and full of contradictions -- and just possibly the most honest expression of a US administration’s policy in the Middle East by a top American official. US ...

Jan 14, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Saudi engine of repression rumbles on

One hundred days after the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is pressing ahead with anti-dissident campaigns and remains in regular contact with Saud al-Qahtani, the m...

Jan 13, 2019
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[Faye Flam] US should go back to the moon, but not because the Chinese have

To claim we’ve already been to the moon is like spending a day each in Iowa, Arizona, Rhode Island and maybe Western Pennsylvania and saying you’ve already been to Earth. There’s a lot more to see on...

Jan 13, 2019
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[Eli Lake] Pompeo doctrine isn’t so different from Obama doctrine

Ten years ago, President Barack Obama traveled to Cairo to open a new dialogue with the world’s Muslims. On Thursday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to Cairo to offer a rebuttal. Some of hi...

Jan 13, 2019
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[Shayera Dark] Selling Africa’s good news stories

Anywhere in the world, freelance journalism is an extreme career choice. The job requires withstanding pitch rejections, ignored queries, stolen story ideas, and delayed payments. It means reconcilin...

Jan 13, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Macron’s ‘yellow vest’ response makes Putin look soft

French President Emmanuel Macron’s handouts to “yellow vest” protesters have damped the demonstrators’ fervor somewhat but failed to stop the regular eruptions of violence, so now Macron and his gove...

Jan 13, 2019
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