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[Tim Culpan] Trump’s tech tariffs are awesome, for Southeast Asia

Donald Trump may well be the best thing that’s happened to Southeast Asia’s humble electronics industry in quite a while. Relatively small, and frankly not as sexy as their North Asian cousins, make...

Aug 1, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] Future direction of social media

This summer, I decided to cut back on my use of social media. I limit my use to a few 10-minute checks a day. That gives me time to wish people happy birthday and interact with posts about important ...

Jul 31, 2018
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[Kim Seong-kon] From the Ocean to the Continent

I recently met an internationally well-regarded cultural critic and scholar of world civilizations who informed me of an interesting theory. As a small peninsula attached to the eastern end of the As...

Jul 31, 2018
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[David Ignatius] This is not your grandfather’s KGB

Looking at Russia’s competing spy services, their overlapping operations against the US and their sometimes careless tradecraft, some CIA veterans are wondering if the Russian spooks actually want to...

Jul 30, 2018
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[Anjani Trivedi] Fathers, your time off is past its due date

It’s 2018 and much of the world is still trying to justify why fathers matter. The US doesn’t federally mandate parental leave of any sort, bracketing it with countries such as Suriname and Papua N...

Jul 30, 2018
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[Thomas Byrne] Why Korean War armistice still matters

The Korean Armistice Agreement was signed 65 years ago, July 27, 1953, wrapping up negotiations that spanned 158 meetings over two years and 17 days -- the longest negotiated armistice in modern hist...

Jul 29, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Twitter and Facebook need bigger cleanup

The plunge of Facebook and Twitter shares in the last two days shows that both companies are hostages to investors’ unrealistic perceptions of how quickly they should grow even as they purge bots and...

Jul 29, 2018
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[David Ignatius] Trump thinks he’s his own best foreign-policy adviser

For the last 18 months, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and other top national-security officials have mostly kept their heads down in public as they tried to quietly counsel President Trump. But this l...

Jul 26, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Steve Bannon wants to divide and conquer in Europe too

As European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker heads to Washington to try to prevent a full-scale trade war, Europeans should expect him to be treated like a US adversary. In President Donald T...

Jul 26, 2018
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[Conor Sen] The future of the US looks a lot like Chicago

Of all America’s major cities, Chicago may be unique. The rest of the nation -- particularly newer, faster-growing cities -- should pay close attention to its evolution, because the future of America...

Jul 26, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Lesser-known universities do more with research money

Productivity growth in developed countries has been slowing down, threatening to cause a long-term stagnation in living standards. One contributing factor could be that it’s getting more expensive to...

Jul 26, 2018
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[Timothy L. O’Brien] The Trump brand is hurting. Just ask Ivanka.

The “aize slingback kitten heels” ($125) and the “starburst dress” ($128) wont be available much longer. The “ketty sandals” ($99), the “lapis stud earrings” ($25) and the discounted ($109) “classic ...

Jul 26, 2018
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[Andrew Sheng] A chaotic transition from unipolar to multipolar world

Anyone who enjoyed a tremendous World Cup tournament in Russia and Wimbledon tennis last weekend could not have been disappointed by Trump’s stunning journey east to call on NATO, President Vladimir ...

Jul 25, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Iran faces consequences of snubbing Trump

Trump’s latest tweet telling Iran it would suffer “consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before” is an almost-verbatim rehash of his August 2017 threat to North Ko...

Jul 25, 2018
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[Shannon O’Neil] Latin America looks past US on trade

This weekend a beleaguered Argentina hosted the G-20 finance ministers to work out the agenda for their leaders’ December conclave in Buenos Aires. While officially focused on infrastructure and the ...

Jul 25, 2018
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