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[Kim Seong-kon] Society that invites a Mona Lisa smile

Leonardo Da Vinci’s monumental painting “Mona Lisa” is one of the most widely discussed paintings of all time because of its subject’s ambiguous smile. People have argued that depending on the viewer...

Jan 22, 2019
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[Tim Culpan] Whatever happened to ‘Don’t get in a car with strangers?’

On the morning of March 26, 2018, my colleague Yoolim Lee ordered a Grab ride in Singapore. Within hours, she was lying in hospital with a fractured vertebrae and a vertebral artery dissection. Her...

Jan 22, 2019
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[Lee Jae-min] No plan in sight for fine dust

Here we go again. Public concerns escalate, agencies issue advisories, and ominous news reports flood media outlets. And then we get one final piece of advice: Wear masks. That is pretty much it -- n...

Jan 22, 2019
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[Aryeh Neier] Human-rights movement needs America

These are disheartening times for international human-rights advocates. Even those of us who have promoted the human-rights cause for decades, and experienced many setbacks along the way, are deeply ...

Jan 21, 2019
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[Ivo Daalder] Britain needs a Brexit do-over referendum to get out of this mess

Britain’s holiday from history was supposed to end this week. After three years of bitter debate, Prime Minister Theresa May hoped Parliament would back the agreement for Britain’s withdrawal from th...

Jan 21, 2019
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[Trudy Rubin] Are Trump’s gifts to Putin the work of a gullible admirer rather than a mark of collusion?

The news that the FBI opened an investigation in 2017 as to whether President Donald Trump was actually working for the Russians shouldn’t have come as a shocker. No public evidence has yet emerged...

Jan 21, 2019
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[Adam Minter] Tesla doesn’t need to sell cars in China to succeed there

When Elon Musk broke ground on Tesla’s Gigafactory in Shanghai earlier this month, he wasn’t just thinking about how many Teslas he’ll sell in China. He was thinking about how many he might be able t...

Jan 21, 2019
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[Karl W. Smith] Revenge of the millennials

Almost every major new economic initiative proposed by Democrats -- the Green New Deal, Medicare for all, debt-free college -- has a common feature: Unlike most current social programs, it would bene...

Jan 21, 2019
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[David Ignatius] What Americans are fighting for in Manbij

If you wonder what the four Americans who were killed Wednesday in Manbij, Syria, were doing there, let me describe a few images from a visit to that city last February that illustrate their mission ...

Jan 20, 2019
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[Park Sang-seek] How to deal with a nuclear North Korea?

North Korea says it has no choice but to become a nuclear state because it is the only way to defend itself from a nuclear attack from the US. This reaction may be a justifiable but not wise counters...

Jan 20, 2019
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[Dylan Selterman] Climate change and the ‘tragedy of the commons’

In 2015, a student tweeted about an extra credit activity in my psychology course, igniting a discussion about the “tragedy of the commons” -- the idea that when masses of people engage in excessive ...

Jan 20, 2019
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[Michael Schuman] China built a big, beautiful wall, too. It failed.

From the moment he launched his campaign for president, Donald Trump compared the barrier he wanted to build along the US southern border to China’s Great Wall. With the US government now shuttered b...

Jan 20, 2019
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[Alex Webb] If Google and LG like smart TVs, so should the privacy police

The world’s tech police have the opportunity to succeed in televisions where they initially failed with the rest of the connected world, and ensure that users retain a firm grasp on their data. Smar...

Jan 20, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Trump has squandered opportunity his populist campaign offered

US President Donald Trump is giving an unintentional gift to the burgeoning field of Democratic presidential candidates: He is teaching them how they can win. Trump’s failure as president is that he...

Jan 17, 2019
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[David Lubin] How US monetary policy has tamed China

Chinese leaders do like their slogans, and where foreign policy is concerned, two have reflected Beijing’s thinking in recent times. The first is the cautious principle of tao guang yang hui, usually...

Jan 17, 2019
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