Most Popular
-
1
1 in 3 Koreans live alone, family types becoming diverse
-
2
Korea, Japan finance chiefs vow to tame rampant FX market volatility
-
3
K-pop group's manager dismissed for setting up spycam in theater dressing room
-
4
Contentious grain bill put directly to plenary meeting for vote
-
5
Why is Apple Pay struggling to get purchase in Korea?
-
6
Trilateral talks acknowledge ‘serious’ slumps of won, yen
-
7
Will tug-of-war between doctors, government end soon?
-
8
Climate impacts set to cut 2050 global GDP by nearly a fifth
-
9
[Today’s K-pop] BTS pop-up event to come to Seoul
-
10
[Graphic News] More Koreans say they plan long-distance trips this year
-
[Peter Goldmark] Don’t try to dismantle the American government
There was a moment in one of the Republican debates last month when candidate Ron Paul said: “9/11 came about because there was too much government.” That statement is flat-out delusional ― yet not one of the other candidates challenged the Texas congressman’s point.I want to challenge Paul and othe
Oct. 10, 2011
-
[Ahmed Zewail] As polls loom, Egypt must unify
CAIRO ― “Where is Egypt going?” a driver named Mohamed asked me recently. It is the question on everyone’s mind as the Arab Spring of popular revolution is giving way to the new season of free elections this autumn.At this unique moment in history, there are two critical challenges that face this na
Oct. 10, 2011
-
[Meghan Daum] The Knox moral ― there’s no place like home
I didn’t have a huge investment in the fate of Amanda Knox, the 24-year-old American whose conviction for killing her roommate four years ago in Italy was overturned Monday. I was generally too put off and confused by the media circus surrounding the case to try to figure out the whole story. Still,
Oct. 10, 2011
-
Occupy Wall Street: The new populists?
They call themselves the 99 Percenters. “We are occupying Wall Street,” they say, encamped by the hundreds in a park dubbed Liberty Square in Lower Manhattan’s financial district, and now seconded by satellite groups at L.A.’s City Hall, in San Francisco and in Chicago, Boston, St. Louis and dozens
Oct. 10, 2011
-
[Jeffrey D. Sachs] Economic globalization and the role of governments
NEW YORK -- We live in an era in which the most important forces affecting every economy are global, not local. What happens “abroad” -- in China, India, and elsewhere -- powerfully affects even an economy as large as the United States. Economic globalization has, of course, produced some large
Oct. 10, 2011
-
Twitter can start a party but can’t keep it going
Social media is the new forum for free speech ― and its suppression. Whether coordinating large protests in Cairo and Tunis or flash mobs in Birmingham and London, social media have proved in recent months that they are capable of disturbing business as usual. Governments, in response, are selective
Oct. 9, 2011
-
[J. Bradford DeLong] A free lunch for America
BERKELEY ― Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had a good line at the International Monetary Fund meetings this year: governments, he said, are trying to treat a broken ankle when the patient is facing organ failure. Summers was criticizing Europe’s focus on the second-order issue of Gre
Oct. 9, 2011
-
Watch out for Putin, and Russia
The news itself was hardly startling. It has been increasingly clear during the last year that the Regent (Vladimir Putin) would recover the throne from the Dauphin (Dmitry Medvedev). But now that it seems a certainty that Russia is headed for (at least) 12 more years of Putinism, alarm bells ought
Oct. 9, 2011
-
The scapegoating of Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox is nothing if not a good story. The pretty young American who headed to Italy for her junior year abroad, fell for an Italian boy and then landed in the dock with him, accused, convicted and then exonerated on charges of murdering another young woman in a sex game gone wild.Knox was neve
Oct. 9, 2011
-
[Dominique Moisi] The nemesis of Turkish power
PARIS ― A few days ago, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoan told Al Jazeera, the pan-Arab television network, that he would use his warships to prevent Israeli commandos from again boarding Gaza-bound ships, as they did last year. And in a speech in Cairo, he declared support for the United
Oct. 9, 2011
-
[William Pesek] Sex gap isn’t just stupid, it squanders billions
Paul Hogan’s reptile-wrestling tough guy from the 1986 movie “Crocodile Dundee” typified Australia’s reputation for “mateship,” a creed of male friendship that often excludes women. A quarter of a century on, it’s costing the country billions. Don’t take my word for it ― take the prime minister’s. “
Oct. 7, 2011
-
[David Ignatius] Drone strategies against al-Qaida
WASHINGTON ― Here’s the trickiest counterterrorism puzzle for U.S. policymakers: How do you stop al-Qaida from attacking the American homeland, without getting bogged down in protracted wars against insurgents? One answer would be to establish deterrence in the long war against Islamic extremis
Oct. 7, 2011
-
Digitized textbooks key to educational future
Change does not always come easy. It often comes with the sacrifice of people whose livelihoods depend on the old way of things and against the influence of the powerful who are heavily invested in keeping the status-quo. However, sometimes change is not an option but rather a challenge a nation sho
Oct. 7, 2011
-
Find common ground with Okinawa on Futenma
The issue of relocating the U.S. Marine Corps’ Futenma Air Station in Okinawa Prefecture cannot be delayed any further.How can we avoid a situation in which the air station will remain where it is? The central government must talk with the Okinawa prefectural government earnestly and search for comm
Oct. 7, 2011
-
[Andrew Sheng] European debt crisis: IMF as enforcer of last resort
Travelling in Europe before the IMF Annual Meetings in Washington D.C., there was an air of worsening crisis. A series of bad news fed the fear factor. Shortly after the Swiss National Bank intervened in the Swiss franc, a UBS rogue trader was charged with losing 2.3 billion euros in unauthorized tr
Oct. 7, 2011
-
[Trudy Rubin] As world turned, we became our own worst enemies
These days, any assessment of American foreign policy seems to circle back to whether we can get our act together at home.This country cannot command respect overseas when its domestic politicians act like irresponsible children. The world looks agog at our paralyzed Congress. A sagging superpower u
Oct. 6, 2011
-
[Ban Ki-moon] The power to terminate poverty
NEW YORK ― Growing up as a child during the Korean War, I knew poverty first hand. I saw it around me every day; I lived it. One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy track into the mountains to escape the fighting, my village burning behind me and wondering what would happen to my family an
Oct. 6, 2011
-
Tiny Qatar’s big plans may change U.S. policy
Qatar, a country of fewer than 2 million people set on a peninsula smaller than Connecticut, seems an unlikely candidate to become a regional power. Yet with little fanfare and less warning, tiny Qatar has emerged as one of the Middle East’s most influential states. As the U.S. struggles to understa
Oct. 6, 2011
-
[Naomi Wolf ] The worst places in the world to be a woman
OXFORD ― The top and the bottom of the list of countries in Newsweek’s recent cover story, “The 2011 Global Women’s Progress Report,” evoke images of two different worlds. At the top of the list ― the “Best Places to be a Woman” ― we see the usual suspects: Iceland and the Scandinavian countrie
Oct. 6, 2011
-
[Shlomo Ben Ami] Has Palestine won battle at U.N.?
TEL AVIV ― The somber spectacle of Israel’s isolation during the United Nations debate on Palestinian statehood marks the political tsunami that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s critics warned would arrive if Israel did not propose a bold peace initiative. But, more importantly, the speeches at t
Oct. 6, 2011