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[Kim Seong-kon] Greeting 2021, the Year of the Ox

Jan 6, 2021

The year 2021 is the Year of the Ox. According to the Chinese horoscope, people born in the Year of the Ox have a strong sense of duty and responsibility. It states: “People born in the Ox year are r...
[Martin Schram] Which is Wannabe Working Class Party?

Jan 5, 2021

As America prepares to inaugurate Scranton Joe Biden as our 46th president, we interrupt Washington’s backslapping Democratic elites to inject a dose of realpolitik into a party that still calls itse...
[Sam Fazeli] How to stay ahead of a mutating coronavirus

Jan 5, 2021

Count 2020 as a lucky year. This may sound odd given that the world grappled with a pandemic that has killed close to 1.8 million people and crippled many countries’ economies. The “luck” relates to ...
[Joseph E. Stiglitz] How Biden can restore multilateralism unilaterally

Jan 4, 2021

There is so much to celebrate with the new year. The arrival of safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines means that there is light at the end of the pandemic tunnel (though the next few months will be horri...
[Lara Wodtke] Doing democracy during the pandemic

Jan 4, 2021

When COVID-19 emerged exactly one year ago, liberal democracy was in crisis. For the first time since 2001, there were more autocracies than democracies in the world. Right-wing populists were gainin...
[Robert J. Fouser] South Korea’s post-pandemic future

Jan 1, 2021

The world begins 2021 with hope amid continuing despair. The roll out of vaccines in wealthy countries offers hope that the COVID-19 pandemic will wind down as the year moves along. This hope contras...
[Kim Myong-sik] Yoon Seok-youl looms large in 2021 Korean politics

Dec 31, 2020

We are sadly sending off “Twenty-Twenty” and entering 2021 with very little hope for a better year. In the New Year, people will continue to live with the inconvenience of wearing face masks and in f...
[Kim Seong-kon] Reminiscing about 2020 with woe and remorse

Dec 30, 2020

Undoubtedly, history will remember 2020 as the Year of the Global Pandemic. For the first time since the Spanish flu hit the world in the early 20th century, a worldwide disease caused society to cha...
[Shuli Ren] China shows Ma what an activist can do

Dec 30, 2020

The rare activist moment at China’s central bank was too late and too crude. For years, when it came to innovative business ideas, Beijing’s stance has been to let them flourish -- there’s always ro...
[J. Bradford DeLong] What lifted Trump could sink Biden

Dec 29, 2020

Very few of the people who voted for US President Donald Trump in the 2020 election are plutocrats who benefited from his and congressional Republicans’ tax cut, or even wannabe plutocrats who can ho...
[Therese Raphael] Now we know how Boris Johnson’s movie ends

Dec 29, 2020

Now we know how this movie ends. “Brexit means Brexit,” Theresa May declared in those electric but mystifying opening scenes after the referendum back in 2016. It wasn’t clear then or for a long whil...
[Tyler Cowen] Tech progress is silver lining of 2020

Dec 28, 2020

For obvious reasons, 2020 will not go down as a good year. At the same time, it has brought more scientific progress than any year in recent memory -- and these advances will last long after COVID-19...
[Trudy Rubin] How can Biden approach Russia mess that Trump left?

Dec 28, 2020

This column is about a massive cyberattack and a pair of poisoned underpants that lead to a giant question: Can Joe Biden figure out how to handle Vladimir Putin’s Russia after President Donald Trump...
[Serendipity] I love you. That is why I am staying away, for now

Dec 25, 2020

I have been working from home for most of the last two weeks after the government implemented the Level 2.5 social distancing scheme. During the period, I have stepped outside the house on three occa...
[Lee Kyong-hee] Ringing out the pandemic year -- with hope

Dec 24, 2020

As 2020 draws to a close, a loud sigh will be heard around the world. But the daunting battle against the COVID-19 pandemic remains. It is as widespread and deadly as ever, a situation unimaginable o...