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[Jared Dillian] High tax states are practicing financial destruction

It is clearer than ever that the US Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 made high tax states less competitive with low tax states. But instead of using this moment to reflect on how taxes influence behavio...

Jul 1, 2019
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[Daron Acemoglu, James A Robinson] Istanbul shows how democracy is won

When the Turkish High Election Council, dominated by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s appointees, annulled Istanbul’s all-important municipal election on May 6, the world was right to be concerned. B...

Jul 1, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Trump’s showdown with Iran weak

Sometimes in foreign policy, the best course of action for a powerful country is the most limited, at least visibly. That may be the case now in America’s confrontation with a cornered but potentiall...

Jun 30, 2019
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[Jeffrey D. Sachs] America’s economic blockades and international law

US President Donald Trump has based his foreign policy on a series of harsh economic blockades, each designed to frighten, coerce and even starve the target country into submitting to American demand...

Jun 30, 2019
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[Bobby Ghosh] G20 gives Trump a chance to clarify his Iran policy

When President Donald Trump arrives at the Group of 20 summit in Osaka on Friday, many of his peers will want to discuss bilateral crises with him: China’s Xi Jinping about their trade spat, Turkey’s...

Jun 27, 2019
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[Kim Ji-hyun] When everything comes full circle

At a startup conference held in Daejeon, home of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, last month, a member of the audience posed the following question to Moaffak Ahmed, an early s...

Jun 26, 2019
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[Doyle McManus] ‘Trump Doctrine’: He’d rather talk than fight

No matter how the current crisis between the United States and Iran turns out, it should have one result: an end to the fear that President Donald Trump would be a warmonger in the Oval Office. Trum...

Jun 26, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] In the name of harmony and unity

Jealousy is a universal phenomenon. For example, a star player in a sports team can easily become an object of jealousy for other players. So, too, can a famous movie star whose popularity is sensati...

Jun 25, 2019
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[Lee Jae-min] What went wrong? It’s time to look at the military’s security posture

The poor police officer who got the call may have scoffed, thinking it was a prank. Imagine the caller saying something like this: “I have just talked to four people claiming to have come from the No...

Jun 25, 2019
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[Pi Woo-jin] Freedom and peace: strengthening ROK-US alliance by honoring Korean War veterans

“I could see that their sacrifice was not in vain. Korea has become a country that I cherish” and “I can finally bring closure after losing my father,” said bereaved family members of US veterans kil...

Jun 24, 2019
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[Ana Palacio] American power without wisdom

In Greek mythology, it was prophesied that Zeus’s first wife Metis, the goddess of wisdom, would bear a son who, equipped with his mother’s cunning and his father’s power, would eventually overthrow ...

Jun 24, 2019
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[Andrew Sheng] Measures against Huawei signal digital ‘divorce’

It is a cliche to say that we live in a digital age, with many countries upgrading to become knowledge economies. There is supposedly a digital divide, between those who have access to digital knowle...

Jun 24, 2019
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[Slawomir Sierakowski] Teflon populism

Populist rule is invariably associated with corruption, nepotism and incompetence. Why, then, do populists appear immune to scandal? Revelations that would have shocked electorates just a few years a...

Jun 23, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Iran is trying to fight its way out

The most important variable in the current Persian Gulf confrontation is time. The Trump administration wants to play a long game, to draw the sanctions tourniquet ever tighter. Iran needs to play a ...

Jun 23, 2019
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[Kundhavi Kadiresan] By 2050, what if we can’t see forests or trees?

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...

Jun 20, 2019
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