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[Kim Seong-kon] Native sons and daughters of Korea

In his monumental novel “Native Son,” Richard Wright depicts the tragic life of an African-American boy named Bigger Thomas who has to survive in the hostile environment of the white-dominant America...

Nov 13, 2018
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[Anjani Trivedi] Rules of the road evade driverless cars

People have been imagining driverless cars since at least 1958, when Walt Disney Co. aired “Magic Highway U.S.A.” It’s been almost five decades, and we’re still talking about them. Initially, evolut...

Nov 13, 2018
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[Mary C. Curtis] Did politics of division work? Yes and no

Donald Trump is a celebrity president, more interested in declaring a “great victory” after the 2018 midterms than in vowing to bring the country together. As he sparred with the media Wednesday and ...

Nov 13, 2018
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[Lee Jaemin] New technology, the new economy and overregulation

Korea is a “fast” country. Everything is quick and speedy, with one exception: The regulatory framework. By and large, laws and regulations fall way behind technological development in the market. St...

Nov 13, 2018
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[James Stavridis] Today’s armies are still fighting World War I

A hundred years ago today, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the First World War in Europe ended. It had cost tens of millions of lives, utterly destroyed the existing political ord...

Nov 13, 2018
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[Adam Minter] Your old smartphone is a security risk. Live with it

That obsolete smartphone stashed away in a drawer or closet may not look like a national security risk, but the Trump administration is contemplating treating it as one. Unscrupulous Chinese recycle...

Nov 12, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] 80 years after Kristallnacht, I call Berlin home

I’ve been asked time and again how, being Jewish, I could choose to live in Berlin, of all places. The 80th anniversary of an event known in modern Germany under the unwieldy German-Russian name Nove...

Nov 12, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Democrats should aim high

The US government is divided once again. Democrats have the House of Representatives, while Republicans still hold the presidency and have deepened their control over the Senate. This means actual le...

Nov 12, 2018
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[Trudy Rubin] House win means Democrats can scrutinize Trump’s foreign policy

Don’t expect the mixed results of Nov. 6’s midterm elections to rein in “Trumpism.” I refer to the president’s personalized foreign policy that disses treaties, friendly leaders, old alliances and a...

Nov 12, 2018
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[Allison Jaslow] This is a time for everyday heroes

“Not all heroes wear capes.” This Veterans Day, I have a new spin on that popular saying: Not all American heroes wear camouflage. I appreciate the high regard most Americans have for us veterans in...

Nov 12, 2018
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[David Ignatius] America’s leaders could learn much from the ghosts of 1918

What would the ghosts of 1918 -- not just the soldiers who were slaughtered in the trenches of World War I, but the statesmen who failed to make a durable peace afterward -- tell politicians a centur...

Nov 11, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Foldable phones are a chance for a tired industry

On Wednesday, after years of rumors and speculation, Samsung finally presented a smartphone with a foldable display that it plans to start selling next year. At the risk of sounding like a wide-eyed ...

Nov 11, 2018
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[David Fickling] We’re running out of road

Think traffic is bad in New York or London? They ain’t got nothing on Jakarta and Chongqing. The top of TomTom NV’s ranking of the world’s most congested places is dominated by emerging markets. Amo...

Nov 11, 2018
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[Jonathan Bernstein] Trump should learn from Nixon’s mistakes

President Donald Trump pushed Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign Wednesday. Matthew Whitaker, Sessions’ chief of staff, who has expressed hostility to special counsel Robert Mueller’s inquiry, ...

Nov 11, 2018
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[Therese Raphael] Brexit enters its most dangerous phase

If the European Commission’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, utters the words “decisive progress” sometime in the next few days, take notice. It would be the signal that the UK and the European Uni...

Nov 11, 2018
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