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[Khan Sophirom] Dealing with pollution as urbanization spreads in Asia

Bangkok choked for weeks last month, as smog filled the air while military drones and fire trucks fought to bring pollution under control. Schools closed and people were encouraged to stay indoors wh...

Feb 6, 2019
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[Noah Smith] Wealth tax better than most alternatives

Close on the heels of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal to tax top income at 70 percent, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has released her own big idea -- a tax of 2 percent a year on all wealt...

Feb 6, 2019
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[Trudy Rubin] Intel chiefs reveal Trump’s slipping grip on keeping America safe

After slamming his intelligence chiefs as “passive and naive” and telling them to “go back to school,” US President Donald Trump tried to paper over his Twitter tantrum Wednesday. Facing sharp crit...

Feb 6, 2019
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[Kim Kyung-ho] Time to ditch dysfunctional policy

President Moon Jae-in was quick in accepting the resignation of his economic adviser Kim Hyun-chul last week, after Kim came under fire for his controversial remarks in a lecture to a group of local ...

Feb 6, 2019
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[Ramesh Ponnuru] Trump Supreme Court contingency plan

Every White House in the modern era has sought to be prepared in case a vacancy arises on the Supreme Court. President Donald Trump’s legal advisers don’t know much more than anyone else about the li...

Feb 6, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Diplomats strive to forge fragile peace in Afghanistan and Yemen

The handmaiden of peace is exhaustion. We are seeing that lesson in the killing fields of Afghanistan and Yemen. Fragile peace agreements are emerging in both conflicts, thanks to skillful diplomats...

Jan 31, 2019
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[Carl P. Leubsdorf] Some early questions to ask about 2020

Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro. Sen. Kamala Harris. Every day, it seems, another candidate enters the Democratic race. Every ...

Jan 31, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Want less graft? Allow more freedom.

Transparency International, the Berlin-based global authority on graft, accompanied its Corruption Perceptions Index for 2018 with a warning that corruption gains where authoritarian and populist lea...

Jan 31, 2019
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[Elizabeth Drew] Nancy Pelosi’s Great Wall of Resistance

Whoever explained to then-President-elect Donald Trump what it meant to be president -- if anyone did -- neglected to tell him that on occasion a president loses a policy fight. That person also forg...

Jan 31, 2019
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[Therese Raphael Theresa may postpones her moment of Brexit reckoning

If Britain‘s Parliament were the final arbiter of Brexit, Tuesday night’s vote would have been historic. It would have been a crowning achievement for Prime Minister Theresa May: Leavers and Remainer...

Jan 31, 2019
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[Kim Ji-hyun] To the next level of globalization

Recently, a friend of mine who works for a prominent foreign company here in South Korea said he was a bit puzzled that the government was so reticent to meet them. “Usually, in the beginning of a n...

Jan 31, 2019
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[Eli Lake] Why arms control won’t work with North Korea or Iran

Dan Coats, the US director of national intelligence, appeared to undermine two premises of President Donald Trump’s foreign policy on Tuesday. First he said that North Korea was not likely to give up...

Jan 30, 2019
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[Joe Nocera] Howard Schultz’s presidential campaign is naive

Ten years ago, I wrote a column about Howard Schultz that was, well, not very nice. Schultz had earlier stepped aside as the chief executive of Starbucks Corp., but with the company in a deep slump, ...

Jan 30, 2019
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[Kim Myong-sik] ‘Please all, and you will please none’

Nowadays, Aesop’s Fables are quoted not as frequently as in the past, perhaps because things taking place in reality are more fabulous than the episodes illustrated by the ancient wise man who once w...

Jan 30, 2019
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[Cathy Young] Is masculinity toxic or under assault?

Is there a war on men and maleness in America? Last week, a new Gillette razor company ad inspired by the #MeToo campaign was quickly denounced for supposedly slandering men as boorish and abusive. ...

Jan 30, 2019
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