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[Noah Smith] Growth remedy for wage stagnation

Wages for the average American aren’t rising very quickly. Apart from a brief burst of growth in late 2014 and 2015, both average hourly earnings and total compensation (which includes health care an...

Dec 3, 2018
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[Faye Flam] Nature hasn’t created perfect species

For such flawed creatures, human beings are surprisingly hard to improve, at least through our genes. That’s one reason there’s so much outcry over the recent claim that researchers in China altered...

Dec 3, 2018
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[Alexandra Borchardt] Mundane dangers confronting news media

The brutal torture and murder of the US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has focused attention on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is widely believed to have ordered the killing. It ...

Dec 3, 2018
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[Julian Lee] OPEC might kick Saudi Arabia when it’s down

OPEC and friends meet in Vienna later this week, and the backdrop isn’t pretty. Oil prices are their lowest in over a year, and there’s the prospect of a glut in 2019 if the group doesn’t make a new ...

Dec 3, 2018
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[David Ignatius] America needs to use power silently

Listen to the voice barking orders on a Russian ship last Sunday as it drove straight toward a Ukrainian tug: “Crush him from the right. ... Do it! Do it! (Expletive) cut him off!” And then, just bef...

Dec 2, 2018
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[John Micklethwait] China inching in the right direction

It was appropriate that US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping flew to Buenos Aires for their showdown summit at the close of a month that began with the centennial of the end of ...

Dec 2, 2018
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[Matthew B. Kugler] Does it hurt you if your face is tracked by technology?

Would you care if a store used facial recognition to track you as you shopped? If it could link your face to your credit card and know not just what you bought, but also what you looked at? Data I’v...

Dec 2, 2018
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[Chong Lip Teck] Why ratifying human rights convention is an issue in Malaysia

A convention to end racial discrimination is stoking anger in Malaysia. But fears that the ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICER...

Dec 2, 2018
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[Eli Lake] Don’t punish US for Saudi Arabia’s crimes

If you want to understand why the Senate voted last week to move forward with a resolution ending US support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, read the speech that Bob Corker delivered from the Senate ...

Dec 2, 2018
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[Mohamed A. El-Erian] Trump-Xi will make us forget this weekend’s G-20 confab

This weekend’s G-20 summit in Argentina will likely demonstrate what does and doesn’t work for this multilateral format, but also for international policy gatherings more generally. Despite weakening...

Nov 29, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Martial law won’t help Ukraine’s president

Imposing martial law after a naval clash with Russia in the Kerch Strait looked like a political masterstroke for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, coming ahead of an election that polls suggest ...

Nov 29, 2018
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[Richard McGregor] Beijing’s ground game in Taiwan is growing smarter

At least one thing is clear from local elections in Taiwan over the weekend -- President Tsai Ing-wen and her ruling Democratic Progressive Party lost badly. Less clear, however, is how well Beijing ...

Nov 28, 2018
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[Shuli Ren] China’s blue-collar wave strengthens Xi’s G20 hand

A blue-collar wave is rising in China -- and buoying Xi Jinping. In most countries, a slowing economy and a sinking stock market would put some heat on politicians. Not in China. A working class tha...

Nov 28, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] In Ukraine, Putin and Poroshenko don’t want all-out war

Sunday’s dramatic events in the Kerch Strait, where Russian troops seized three Ukrainian navy vessels, highlight the Kremlin’s resolve to hold on to the spoils of its aggression against Ukraine and ...

Nov 28, 2018
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[Brooke Sutherland] Trump-era vows take another blow with GM cuts

General Motors Co.’s aggressive cost-cutting plan shows the danger of taking corporate-investment pledges at face value in the Trump era. The automaker is on track to close five North American plant...

Nov 28, 2018
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