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[Noah Smith] The great recession never ended for college humanities

Humanities education in the US is in free fall. And the decline probably shows that the nature of what American students want out of college education is changing -- more young people are in it for t...

Aug 19, 2018
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[James Stavridis] US needs a Space Force and a Cyber Force

Sadly, the proposal for a new US Space Force has become a punchline on late-night TV. It is being battered as a needless new bureaucracy, a competitor for the private sector, and an idea that will le...

Aug 19, 2018
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[Shannon O’Neil] Latin America needs better judges

Latin America’s judiciaries are engulfed in corruption scandals. In Colombia a former Supreme Court member was arrested on charges of corruption and bribery. In Peru multiple judges stand accused of ...

Aug 19, 2018
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[Editorial] More to do

Executive, judiciary branches should follow Assembly’s decision to scale down ‘special activity funds’

Aug 19, 2018
Editorial
[Therese Raphael] Erdogan makes some worrying friends

Relations between the US and Turkey have been deteriorating almost as fast as the Turkish lira. In a speech on the Black Sea coast Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made the ultimate d...

Aug 16, 2018
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[Tyler Cowen] Trump hurts US exports in the marketplace of ideas

If you are a believer in free markets, you might be tempted to be pleased by some of the more positive policies of the Trump administration: Lxower corporate tax rates, more market-friendly judges, a...

Aug 16, 2018
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[Editorial] Not enough time

Special prosecutor should be given enough time to probe online opinion-rigging case

Aug 16, 2018
Editorial
[Kim Myong-sik] Worst lawlessness reigns in Street of Justice

The new Seoul Eastern Detention House, or “Dongbu Guchiso,” is located on Jeongui-ro, or “Justice Street,” in Munjeong-dong. Across the street are the Seoul Eastern District Court and Seoul Eastern P...

Aug 15, 2018
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[Eli Lake] Montenegro takes on Russia, US, former CIA officer

It sounds like a spy novel. A former CIA case officer joins a cabal of pro-Russian rebels attempting to kill the prime minister of a small Balkan country. The coup fails, the officer returns to the U...

Aug 15, 2018
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[Cathy O’Neil] Mark Zuckerberg is totally out of his depth

I might be the only person on Earth feeling sorry for the big boys of technology. Jack Dorsey from Twitter, Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook, all those Google nerds: They’re monumentally screwed, becaus...

Aug 15, 2018
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[Tyler Cowen] How your personality traits affect your paycheck

What makes really smart people tick? Why do some end up earning so much more than others? And how much do these disparate outcomes have to do with their personalities? A new study by Miriam Gensowski...

Aug 15, 2018
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[Yang Sung-jin] One small summer reading suggestion

With the suffocating summer heat slowly slackening a bit in South Korea, some vacationers on the beach may be still happily stuck with sci-fi and fantasy. If they have a couple more days to burn thro...

Aug 15, 2018
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[Editorial] Value consumers

Government bans BMW vehicles; Punitive damages must be introduced

Aug 15, 2018
Editorial
[Tyler Cowen] Americans own less stuff, and that’s reason to be nervous

Some social problems are blatantly obvious in daily life, while others are longer-term, more corrosive and perhaps mostly invisible. Lately I’ve been worrying about a problem of the latter kind: the ...

Aug 14, 2018
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[Robert Fouser] Changed political landscape and North Korea

Thursday is “malbok,” the day that traditionally marks the end of the summer heat. Temperatures at night will soon drop and fall will be in the air. Vacations will end, and schools will start; people...

Aug 14, 2018
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