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[Joseph E. Stiglitz] When shall we overcome?

In 1967, riots erupted in cities throughout the United States, from Newark, New Jersey, to Detroit and Minneapolis in the Midwest -- all two years after the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles exploded...

Mar 19, 2018
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[Stein Ringen] Who in the world will defend democracy?

In Beijing sits Xi Jinping, the Red Emperor. His project is to make totalitarianism work. Already in complete control at home, his global influence increases by the day. Other nations are falling ove...

Mar 19, 2018
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[Phyllis Papadavid] Greece quietly backsliding on reform

Greece’s planned August exit from its third European Stability Mechanism bailout has triggered investor optimism. Its July 2017 bond issuance, the first in three years, was oversubscribed, as were su...

Mar 19, 2018
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[Shelley Goldberg] Trump’s knee-jerk tariffs will have unintended consequences

It makes sense to ask why the Trump administration was given almost a year to decide whether aluminum and steel imports were threats to national security, yet it took only 90 days for the president t...

Mar 18, 2018
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[Bloomberg] Xi’s ambition is a gamble and a challenge to the West

Opaque though China’s system of government may be to outsiders, there’s wide agreement that the initiatives announced in recent days are no ordinary course correction. President Xi Jinping has brough...

Mar 18, 2018
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[Noah Smith] The population bomb has been defused

Some of the most spectacularly wrong predictions in history have been made by those who claim that overpopulation is going to swamp the planet. Thomas Malthus, a British economist writing in the late...

Mar 18, 2018
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[Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, Jeffrey Wasserstrom] What animal memes can tell us about Chinese politics

When the Chinese political situation gets tense, new animal memes proliferate on the Chinese internet. A decade ago, river crabs were in vogue. Last month, it was bunny rabbit emojis alongside rice b...

Mar 18, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] The EU digital tax is back and as wrong as ever

The idea of a European “digital tax” on tech revenues just won’t go away. Next week, the European Commission will formally propose the levy, and though it faces stiff opposition from low-tax countrie...

Mar 18, 2018
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[James Stavridis] Career advice for Pompeo: Reassure allies, stick close to Mattis

Perhaps the only surprising thing about Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s firing was the brutal and sudden nature of the ejection. No meeting, not even a phone call, just a tweet. While many of Tue...

Mar 16, 2018
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[Adam Minter] Hawking taught us how to be wrong

In 2002, the future Nobel Prize-winner Peter Higgs joined several fellow physicists at a dinner in Edinburgh. Drinks flowed and the professional invective followed. According to a report published in...

Mar 16, 2018
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[Tyler Cowen] Game theory scowls at Trump-North Korea talks

President Donald Trump’s possible meeting with Kim Jong-un to discuss North Korean nuclear weapons is considered a fairly unpredictable event. It’s worth a look at how an economist might use game the...

Mar 15, 2018
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[Andrew Malcolm] Kim offer to meet proves Trump right to stand firm in Asia

Here’s an exquisite potential irony for you: The most bellicose president of modern times negotiates nuclear detente on the Korean Peninsula after his soft-power predecessor violently ousts Libya’s g...

Mar 15, 2018
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[Los Angeles Times] Mission impossible: Running stable foreign policy for unstable president

Rex Tillerson was the wrong person to run the US State Department, and he has done deep damage to the organization -- most notably by proposing a controversial restructuring plan that would have shru...

Mar 15, 2018
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[Eli Lake] Tillerson’s exit hurts Iran deal, but not Korea talks

As far as firings under President Donald Trump go, Rex Tillerson’s is not the most humiliating. That dishonor would have to go to former chief of staff, Reince Priebus. He learned he was fired throug...

Mar 15, 2018
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[Jay Ambrose] North Korean talks could save the world

President Donald Trump is going to sit down with Kim Jong-un and try to devise a way for North Korea to get rid of all of its nuclear firepower. This might not work, but, if it does, it could save th...

Mar 15, 2018
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