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[Leonid Bershidsky] Putin won’t be swayed by hunger strikes

Last week, the hunger strike by Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov in a Russian prison crossed the 100-day mark. That exceeds the 66-day protest that caused the death of Irish Republican Army membe...

Aug 29, 2018
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[Jeffrey Frankel] The depth of the next US recession

The US economy is doing well. But the next recession could be very bad. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that GDP growth in the second quarter of 2018 reached 4.1 percent -- the highest ...

Aug 29, 2018
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[Editorial] Dubious dismissal

Moon replaces chief of Statistics Korea with researcher involved in reanalyzing data

Aug 29, 2018
Editorial
[Kim Ji-hyun] Time for truce with conglomerates

Not necessarily undeserving, conglomerates have become something akin to a public enemy under the Moon Jae-in administration. They are under fire for bad corporate governance and cultures, worsening...

Aug 29, 2018
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[Editorial] Skepticism growing

Deadlock in talks to denuclearize NK raises essential questions

Aug 28, 2018
Editorial
[Kim Seong-kon] Korea: Seven decades ago and now

Recently, I came across some embarrassing, but intriguing, articles about Korea in the mid-20th century. One was related to Western missionaries who lived in Korea right after the Korean War to help ...

Aug 28, 2018
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[Robert Fouser] For more effective urban generation

In recent years, urban regeneration -- or reviving old, rundown neighborhoods -- has become a hot topic among architects and city planners in Korea. Instead of demolishing large areas of a city to ma...

Aug 28, 2018
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[Tyler Cowen] When and why the world went wrong

What exactly has gone wrong, and when and why? The open, democratic world order based on egalitarian rights and the rule of law -- liberalism, for lack of a better term -- is under increasing pressur...

Aug 28, 2018
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[Andrew Polk] China’s growth woes aren’t going away

US officials seem to think they have the upper hand in trade talks with China because its economy is struggling. Judging by the string of measures they’ve recently announced to shore up growth, Chine...

Aug 28, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Japan’s baby bust could be an experimentation

Japan’s population is shrinking. There are about 127 million people in the country today, but by 2050, this is projected to drop to about 102 million -- and to keep falling thereafter. This will ca...

Aug 28, 2018
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[Albert R. Hunt] The senator no one could ignore

John Sidney McCain’s life and legacy are summed up by one word: courage. No modern American public figure more embodies that quality than the Arizona senator who died Saturday after a battle with bra...

Aug 27, 2018
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[David Ignatius] Republicans have last chance to show some guts and separate from Trump

“Waiting for the jury to come in” is a good description of what this August has felt like. We’ve all been wondering how our legal system would cope with President Trump -- even as we awaited the broa...

Aug 27, 2018
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[Mark Buchanan] Climate change’s long-term fix has short-term cost

Global warming is getting a little scary, as its consequences emerge more quickly than most scientists had expected in soaring global temperatures, unprecedented wildfires and many other effects. Thi...

Aug 27, 2018
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[Mac Margolis] Cuba’s new constitution won’t fix economy

For anyone longing for the clarity of the Cold War, Cuba has been an enduring inspiration. Forget the gringo-sponsored Washington Consensus, messy electoral democracy or wishy-washy pink tide. The Ca...

Aug 27, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Putin hates you? Then put less data online

Microsoft’s announcement that it has taken down a number of fake domains set up by the same cyberespionage group that allegedly hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016 shows Russia’s interes...

Aug 27, 2018
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