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[Kundhavi Kadiresan] By 2050, what if we can’t see forests or trees?

Jun 20, 2019

Most of us are familiar with the old saying that sometimes we “can’t see the forest for the trees.” But what if I told you, at our present rate of exploitation of our forests and depletion of our nat...
[David Ignatius] Shanahan’s departure ill-timed

Jun 20, 2019

President Trump has a credibility problem at a time when his confrontation with Iran is moving toward a dangerous test. “There is no capital in the bank” in terms of trust with major European and As...
[Kim Myong-sik] Nation at a crossroads

Jun 19, 2019

As we approach the midpoint in the Moon Jae-in presidency, let us make a brief rundown of the leftist administration’s major policies. First is the denuclearization of North Korea. Moon has chosen a...
[Trudy Rubin] Campaign help from Russia?

Jun 19, 2019

What do Queen Elizabeth II and Vladimir Putin have in common? Well, according to President Donald Trump, there is no difference between having a chat with Britain’s queen and accepting dirt about a ...
[Robert J. Fouser] Japan’s quiet moves toward accepting immigrants

Jun 18, 2019

The Olympics are no longer the big global moment that they were in the late 20th century, but, as events surrounding the Winter Olympics in PyeongChang showed, they still have symbolic power. The Sum...
[Kim Seong-kon] The best-case scenario vs. the worst-case scenario

Jun 18, 2019

We still remember that in the past our military dictators vastly exaggerated the threat from North Korea to justify tyranny, intimidating people with the fear of imminent war. Ex-military generals fr...
[Jeffrey Frankel] US recovery turns 10

Jun 17, 2019

This month marks the 10th full year of the US economic recovery that began in June 2009. Back then, a “trough” in business activity signified the end of the Great Recession that followed the 2007-08 ...
[Cass R. Sunstein] We are living in historic times. Or are we?

Jun 17, 2019

If we are living through historic events, would we know? In 1965, Arthur Danto, a philosopher at Columbia University, argued that it is impossible to tell, when you’re in the midst of things, whethe...
[Kasia Malinowska] How US drug war victimizes women

Jun 16, 2019

It has been two years since Cecilia’s son, Carlos, set sail from the coast of Ecuador on an ordinary day’s fishing voyage. She has not heard from him since. At first, she feared that his fishing tra...
[David Ignatius] Is the Iran-US tinderbox about to ignite?

Jun 16, 2019

As Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Iran of “unprovoked attacks” near the Strait of Hormuz, video screens behind him showed thick black smoke billowing from the two tankers that were struck Thu...
[Thierry Coppens] Politics and indifference condemn refugees to suffer and die

Jun 13, 2019

June 20 is World Refugee Day. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, an unprecedented 68.5 million people around the world have been forced from home, and among them are near...
[Hong Seok-in] What’s so public about Korea’s Public Diplomacy?

Jun 13, 2019

Listed among Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2019, Korea’s seven-member boy band BTS can count 19 music videos with more than 1 million views on YouTube and three hit songs ranked No. ...
[Min Gab-ryong] Brave new world requires brave new answers

Jun 12, 2019

Universal usage of the internet has allowed humanity to venture into a domain our ancestors would have never dreamed of: cyberspace. The extensive freedom and convenience brought by the development o...
[Kim Hoo-ran] Lee Hee-ho’s legacy as activist, first lady offers lesson for all

Jun 12, 2019

When former first lady Lee Hee-ho, who passed away Monday night aged 96, and Kim Dae-jung tied the knot in 1962, they entered into a lifelong partnership that would endure numerous hardships and trib...
[Kim Seong-kon] Reading Zack Rogow's poems in this harsh world

Jun 11, 2019

When I first heard Zack Rogow reading from his deeply moving poem, “Skating Lessons” at a poetry reading in San Francisco in 2006, I was mesmerized by his exquisite poetic sensitivity in the way he r...