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[Patty-Jane Geller] Welcome news as rogue threats advance

Nov 30, 2020

You wouldn’t know it from the lack of headlines, but the US Navy and Missile Defense Agency recently made history with something that should help make all Americans safer. Specifically, they success...
[Serendipity] Light at the end of the tunnel, for everyone

Nov 27, 2020

Putting up the Christmas tree over the weekend, I was reminded once again of all the plans that came to naught this year, including long-planned trips. Among the ornaments that hang on the tree are ...
[Trudy Rubin] Biden to put US first alongside allies

Nov 27, 2020

Does anyone recall the old Alka-Seltzer commercial that went, “Plop, plop, fizz, fizz, Oh what a relief it is?” That song ricocheted ‘round my head as the Trump administration finally greenlit a tra...
[Lee Kyong-hee] Unsung heroes who saved our nation’s jewels

Nov 26, 2020

About this time 70 years ago the Korean War reversed again. Alarmed by UN-South Korean troops rapidly advancing northward, China entered the war to prevent their permanent occupation along its border...
[Mihir Sharma] Price of making vaccines too expensive

Nov 26, 2020

The world is unequal enough and the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to make things more unequal still. Poorer countries have had to take on debt they will struggle to pay back. Their more fragile health ...
[David Fickling] Beyond Meat faces ancient rival in China -- Tofu

Nov 25, 2020

You wouldn’t try to sell coal to Newcastle. So how would you rate your chances of peddling meat substitutes to the country that invented tofu? Beyond Meat Inc., the US maker of plant-based burgers a...
[Kim Seong-kon] Why are Koreans at the MAGA March?

Nov 25, 2020

While US President Donald Trump has not yet officially conceded his election loss, approximately 10,000 Trump supporters recently gathered at One Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC for the “Million MAGA...
[Arvind Subramanian] America should rewrite the China trade contract

Nov 24, 2020

Once US President-elect Joe Biden’s administration has made the relatively easy decisions to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, remain in the World Health Organization, and attempt to reboot the Wor...
[Richard A. Clarke] Terrorist threat to US still lurks

Nov 24, 2020

A twisty, narrow way in the cramped heart of Vienna’s oldest quarter, a busy street in an upscale neighborhood of Tehran and remote woods in Nigeria seem unlikely to share a theme or have relevance f...
[J. Bradford DeLong] The siren song of austerity

Nov 23, 2020

Ten years and ten months ago, US President Barack Obama announced in his 2010 State of the Union address that it was time for austerity. “Families across the country are tightening their belts and ma...
[Ana Palacio] America, heal thyself and look forward

Nov 23, 2020

In 1998, then-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright famously defined the United States as “the indispensable nation,” declaring that, “We stand tall and we see further than other countries into th...
[Digital Simplicity] Think twice before you sign up for ‘free’ digital service

Nov 21, 2020

Last week, Google announced it would change its storage policy for Google Photos, which is now being used by more than 1 billion people across the globe. Simply put, it will end its free unlimited ph...
[Robert J. Fouser] Korean American women storm the House

Nov 20, 2020

The recent US election produced a mixed result. As expected, Joe Biden won the presidency, thus adding Donald Trump’s name to the list of defeated presidents. Down-ballot elections for the Senate, Ho...
[Kim Myong-sik] 72 years from Rhee Syng-man to Moon Jae-in

Nov 19, 2020

Confusion in the US presidential election passed two weeks since the Nov. 3 voting with Donald Trump still refusing to accept Joe Biden’s victory despite the final electoral votes of 232 and 306. Kor...
[Max Nisen] A giant leap against pandemics

Nov 19, 2020

The world now seems likely to have at least two effective vaccines against COVID-19 with Monday’s announcement of positive early data from Moderna Therapeutics’s 30,000-person clinical trial. The res...