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[Robert J. Fouser] Promoting popular Korean studies

September is moving time in university cities and college towns across Europe and North America as students get settled for the new academic year. For many young people, the move from home to univers...

Sept 11, 2018
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[Albert R. Hunt] It’s too late to stop a blue wave, but not for Trump to try

A consensus is building in both US political parties that Democrats are heavily favored to take control of the House of Representatives on Nov. 6 and to pick up half a dozen governors’ offices, while...

Sept 11, 2018
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[Kim Seong-kon] If Stephen King came to Korea

Stephen King is undisputedly the most prominent horror fiction writer of our times, and his stories are undeniably bone-chilling and hair-raising. Nevertheless, there is much more to his stories and ...

Sept 11, 2018
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[David Ignatius] What’s the right way to deal with life in ‘Crazytown’?

This is indeed “Crazytown,” as a quote from Bob Woodward’s new book describes it, and we are watching a “nervous breakdown.” The problem is that it afflicts the country as a whole, and not just our n...

Sept 11, 2018
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[Trudy Rubin] American political drama inspires London theater

As an escape from the relentless political theater in Washington, I took a London vacation. I love British theater, and, as so often happens in London, the most intriguing shows were political with...

Sept 11, 2018
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[Michael Schuman] Trump’s trade war is just fine with Xi Jinping

Anyone who expects China to concede defeat in its trade war with the US should read about Biobase Group. The Chinese manufacturer of laboratory equipment once struggled to win orders even at home i...

Sept 10, 2018
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[Arvind Subramanian, Josh Felman] R.I.P. Chinese exceptionalism?

From Argentina to Turkey and from South Africa to Indonesia, emerging markets are once again being roiled by financial turbulence. But let us not lose sight of the biggest and potentially most proble...

Sept 10, 2018
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[Deanna Hartley] Women, are we the ones driving working moms out of the workforce?

As far as you know, I’m just a regular female professional, but what you may not realize is that I’m part of a rising demographic of working women in their 30s who remain childless by choice so as no...

Sept 10, 2018
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[J. Bradford DeLong] For whom the climate bell tolls

Scarcely had I begun my first lecture of the fall semester here at the University of California, Berkeley, when I realized that I was too hot. I desperately wanted to take off my professorial tweed j...

Sept 10, 2018
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[Jeffrey D. Sachs] Trump’s policies will displace the dollar

Back in 1965, Valery Giscard d’Estaing, then France’s minister of finance, famously called the benefits that the United States reaped from the dollar’s role as the world’s main reserve currency an “e...

Sept 10, 2018
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[Trudy Rubin] By staying quiet, Trump’s anonymous critics are helping him wreck US policy abroad

The headline on the anonymous op-ed that has shaken Washington reads, “The Quiet Resistance Inside the Trump Administration.” Quiet resistance. That’s exactly the problem. As the New York Times e...

Sept 9, 2018
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[Nathaniel Bullard] Why power companies love drones

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Sept 9, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Germans should review the lessons of Weimar

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas made an impassioned call to his compatriots to “show our faces” against a rise in right-wing extremism. The plea is a stark warning that Germany should guard agains...

Sept 9, 2018
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[David Ignatius] Working with Moscow on cyber regulation is like paying a bully for protection

Imagine a bully who’s pounding your head against a wall. When you complain that it hurts and threaten to punch back, he offers to sign an international agreement against bullying. Meanwhile, he keeps...

Sept 9, 2018
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[Adam Minter] Secrecy fuels the stench of China’s diseased pigs

An outbreak of African swine fever has China’s meat eaters, investors and bureaucrats in a panic. That should be no surprise: The country is the world’s biggest pork producer and consumer, and has a ...

Sept 9, 2018
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