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[Andrew Sheng] On board SS Planet Titanic

World Environment Day (June 5) was a good time to reflect on the existential threat of climate change. After five of the hottest years in living history, there is little doubt that climate change is...

Jun 10, 2019
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[Carl P. Leubsdorf] Uncertain times for US, allies

Seventy-five years ago, thousands of American and allied sailors, soldiers and aviators braved heavy seas and murderous German fire in the historic invasion that began the decisive campaign to end Na...

Jun 10, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Trump disdains postwar architecture

President Trump spoke the right words in commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day, but did he mean them? So far, his presidency has been about defying the postwar order that was based on shared va...

Jun 9, 2019
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[George Soros] Europe’s silent majority speaks out

Last month’s elections to the European Parliament produced better results than one could have expected, and for a simple reason: The silent pro-European majority has spoken. What they said is that th...

Jun 9, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Russia after Vladimir Putin

Since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Vladimir Putin’s Russia has, outwardly at least, been one of the world’s most stable and predictable regimes -- an assertive authoritarian government propped u...

Jun 6, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Britain is club Trump wants to join

President Trump’s love-hate relationship with Britain has been on display in London this week. This ambivalence takes an especially bizarre turn in comments by the president and his supporters about ...

Jun 6, 2019
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[Elizabeth Drew] To impeach or not to impeach

As the US Congress returns from a 10-day break, the question of whether the House of Representatives (controlled by the Democrats) should formally commence the process of impeaching President Donald ...

Jun 5, 2019
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[Kim Myong-sik] Foreign minister and rescue operations on Danube

Let me ask our readers a question: Do you think it was appropriate for our minister of foreign affairs to go to Budapest, Hungary, to join rescue operations for Korean tourists missing when their boa...

Jun 5, 2019
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[Kundhavi Kadiresan] Go fish! -- But, please, do so legally

The people of South Korea love fish and both demand and consumption of fish are on the rise. On the one hand that’s good, because fish is high in protein and low in fat and that helps to feed a hung...

Jun 4, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] Captain Ahab and the white whale

In my class in the English Department at the University of California, Irvine, I had my American students discuss Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” with reference to multicultural issues. Some students r...

Jun 4, 2019
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[Robert J. Fouser] Trump’s chances for re-election dim

During a short visit to Kyoto, Japan, on my way to Korea, a taxi driver told me that US President Donald Trump made him nervous because he is so unpredictable. I reassured him that many, if not most,...

Jun 4, 2019
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[Mac Margolis] Survival tips for Latin American leftist leaders

Latin America’s left-wingers are in a rut. Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro presides over a collapsing economy behind bayonets. An Ecuadoran court has ordered the arrest of former President Rafael Correa, ...

Jun 4, 2019
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[Justin Fendos] Trump trashes Pax-Americana

The recent failure of trade talks between the US and China put world markets through quite a jolt. A more careful reading, however, reveals an amicable end was probably impossible from the start....

Jun 4, 2019
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[Jean Pisani-Ferry] Europe’s citizens say they want a more political EU

The most significant result of the recent European Parliament election is neither that conservatives and social democrats lost seats to Liberals and Greens, nor that far-right nationalists gained les...

Jun 3, 2019
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[Francis Wilkinson] Democrats must win the war for truth

Poor old Robert Mueller. “Mr. Mueller seemed to expect that the system would work as it had in the past,” noted a news analysis last week in the New York Times. Former special counsel Mueller scrupu...

Jun 3, 2019
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