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[Justin Fox] Healing the nation’s wounds with parks and libraries

There’s this new park in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and it’s amazing. I went on a weekday afternoon last month expecting calm and quiet and instead encountered thousands of people, mostly families with kids. I...

Nov 18, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Europe’s losing credibility on Iran sanctions

European Union leaders have long called for the bloc to behave more independently and strengthen its international role. Their failure to build a way to bypass US sanctions on Iran has brutally expos...

Nov 18, 2018
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[Editorial] At a crossroads

NK’s latest weapons test intended to pressure US

Nov 18, 2018
Editorial
[David Ignatius] The world is adapting to the reality of Donald Trump as president

One of the assumptions that economists sometimes use to frame their models is to specify that some variables will be held constant, a concept that’s expressed with the Latin phrase “ceteris paribus.”...

Nov 15, 2018
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[Noah Smith] NIMBY backlash against Amazon’s HQ2

Splitting Amazon’s second headquarters between Queens and the Virginia suburbs of Washington was probably not the best decision from a social perspective. Added traffic will strain already crowded lo...

Nov 15, 2018
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[Editorial] Respond sternly

Trade group dares a series of sit-ins to press government to stay labor-friendly

Nov 15, 2018
Editorial
[Editorial] Tug of war

US-N. Korea in deadlock over denuclearization; concerns increasing

Nov 14, 2018
Editorial
[Supalak Ganjanakhundee] Tussle with China in Mekong basin

Countries in the Mekong basin, notably those located in the lower part of the river -- Asia’s seventh longest -- are in need of a collective strategy to secure their future, given China’s control of ...

Nov 14, 2018
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[Eli Lake] NK's missile work not surprising

Ever since he met with Kim Jong-un last June in Singapore, US President Donald Trump has spoken of his North Korean summitry with pride. The nuclear crisis, he has assured the world, is defused. Dipl...

Nov 14, 2018
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[Peter Singer] Are you buying oil from Saudi Arabia?

The murder of Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia’s Istanbul consulate on Oct. 2 has focused attention on the Saudi regime, and especially on its de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. In lar...

Nov 14, 2018
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[Jeffrey D. Sachs] Trump’s diminishing power and rising rage

The drama of Donald Trump’s presidency has centered on whether an extremist president would be able to carry out an extremist policy agenda against the will of the majority of Americans. So far the a...

Nov 14, 2018
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[Steve Lopez] One California calamity after another, and yet we always endure

We have no hurricanes, cyclones or statewide freezes in California. Everything else, we have. Earthquakes, yes. Torrential downpours, yes. Mudslides, yes. Extended droughts, yes. A president who ki...

Nov 14, 2018
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[Kim Seong-kon] Native sons and daughters of Korea

In his monumental novel “Native Son,” Richard Wright depicts the tragic life of an African-American boy named Bigger Thomas who has to survive in the hostile environment of the white-dominant America...

Nov 13, 2018
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[Anjani Trivedi] Rules of the road evade driverless cars

People have been imagining driverless cars since at least 1958, when Walt Disney Co. aired “Magic Highway U.S.A.” It’s been almost five decades, and we’re still talking about them. Initially, evolut...

Nov 13, 2018
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[Mary C. Curtis] Did politics of division work? Yes and no

Donald Trump is a celebrity president, more interested in declaring a “great victory” after the 2018 midterms than in vowing to bring the country together. As he sparred with the media Wednesday and ...

Nov 13, 2018
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