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[David Ignatius] Saga of the Chinese mole reads like a thriller

Behind last week’s admission by a former CIA officer that he plotted to spy for China lies an astonishing tale of Beijing’s espionage against America -- and the vindication of other officers who were...

May 12, 2019
[Noah Feldman] Trump is stuck with nationwide court injunctions

Vice President Mike Pence says that the Donald Trump administration will ask the US Supreme Court to bar federal district courts from issuing nationwide injunctions -- the court orders that make the ...

May 12, 2019
[David Ignatius] US needs a defense secretary now

At a time when America is facing a potential military confrontation with Iran, an escalating trade war with China and a showdown with North Korea, you’d think President Donald Trump would want a perm...

May 9, 2019
[Elizabeth Drew] Trump is now above the law

Things have gotten ugly in Washington since the release last month of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election, and they’re about to get ug...

May 9, 2019
[Marius Dragomir] Central and Eastern Europe’s captured media

In its March 22 edition, the Slovenian weekly magazine Mladina featured on its cover a cartoon of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban performing a Nazi salute while being hugged by right-wing polit...

May 8, 2019
[Kim Myong-sik] New outlook on Korea-Japan relations in Reiwa era

Citizens in this republic were not quite impressed by the televised scenes of Japanese imperial abdication and enthronement last week that appeared more theatrical than real. However, poet-essayist ...

May 8, 2019
[Francis Wilkinson] Pelosi’s dangerous battle against Trump

This week almost 700 former federal prosecutors, including prominent Republicans, signed a letter saying the Mueller report lays out offenses against Donald Trump that would lead to indictment if com...

May 8, 2019
[Kim Seong-kon] Elegy for the humanities

Recently, I read a perceptive article that the famous basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote for the Guardian. It was entitled, “The way Americans regard sports heroes versus intellectuals speak...

May 7, 2019
[Robert J. Fouser] Reducing abandoned houses in old neighborhoods

Last week, I visited a friend living on top of a steep hill in Seongbuk-dong. The house had a sweeping view of the entire center of the city and of the rest of the neighborhood below. As we talked ab...

May 7, 2019
[Kavita N. Ramdas, James A. Goldston] Trump administration’s assault on assault survivors

The United Nations Security Council has just adopted a resolution aimed at ending the use of sexual violence as a weapon during war. This is a laudable goal, which the United States has long supporte...

May 7, 2019
[Noah Smith] Politics moves faster than economists gather data

The dream of evidence-based policy is that as data and analysis get better and better, policymakers will be able to make informed decisions in real time. Instead of relying on judgment or on long-che...

May 6, 2019
[Slawomir Sierakowski] The Rorschach test of Notre Dame

Following the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, a group of young Polish activists and artists donned T-shirts that read, “I did not cry for the Pope.” At a time of seemingly obligatory national mou...

May 6, 2019
[Alok Kshirsagar, Anu Madgavkar] Turbocharging India’s digital economy

India is taking a great digital leap. Having reaped substantial rewards from building up its core digital sectors, such as information technology and business process management, the country is now s...

May 6, 2019
[Leonid Bershidsky] Huawei is being held to an impossible standard

The Bloomberg report of persistent vulnerabilities found in Huawei telecommunications equipment by major telecom operator Vodafone highlights the Chinese vendor’s current problem: While its competito...

May 2, 2019
[Daniel Moss] Does Indonesia need a new capital?

Even as he awaits official confirmation of his election to a second term, Indonesian President Joko Widodo appears to be thinking about his legacy. He’s proposing a $33 billion plan to relocate the c...

May 2, 2019

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