The Korea Herald

Obama’s 2012 budget has been tamed too much

Feb 17, 2011

President Obama’s budget for fiscal year 2012 landed with a thud Monday, laying out short- and long-term tax and spending plans that disappointed lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. The proposal wa...
[Doyle McManus] Mission not yet accomplished

Feb 17, 2011

“Mission Accomplished” read the hauntingly familiar phrase from Egyptian activist Wael Ghonim when the first word came that President Hosni Mubarak might step down. Ghonim delivered the words by Twit...
[Joel Brinkley] Revisionist history doesn’t hold up

Feb 17, 2011

As the saying goes, success has many fathers. George W. Bush is not one of them. The former president’s aides and other neocons are mounting a furious effort right now to make the case that Bush’s p...
[Dick Polman] GOP cutting Obama slack over Egypt

Feb 17, 2011

Hey, check out some of the nice things that people have said lately about Barack Obama: “The president, I think, is handling this (Egypt) situation well, under the most difficult kind of circumstanc...
[Ann Mettler] Europe’s competitiveness shell game

Feb 17, 2011

BRUSSELS ― For seasoned observers of Europe’s economy, the most recent European Union summit delivered a bizarre sense of dj vu. Little more than a decade ago, European leaders announced to great fan...
Castro’s playbook is different from Mubarak’s

Feb 16, 2011

Somewhere in Havana, Fidel Castro is probably laughing out loud to see Hosni Mubarak lose his grip on power after 30 years of undisputed leadership. In Castro’s eyes, no doubt, the octogenarian Mr. M...
Don’t hinder EPA from regulating emissions

Feb 16, 2011

Temperatures in Wisconsin are expected to rise by midcentury by an annual average of 6 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a new study by University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists and others in st...
[Marifeli Perez-Stable] Education is the key to success

Feb 16, 2011

Is the United States in decline? Twenty-five years ago Americans feared Japan would make us No. 2, but then in the 1990s our economy boomed and Japan’s stagnated. Now the fears have returned. China,...
[Joel Brinkley] Keeping up the pressure on dictators

Feb 16, 2011

In Russia two weeks ago, President Dmitry Medvedev unveiled a 33-foot-tall marble statute of Boris Yeltsin, who, as Russia’s first president, helped bring democracy to the former communist state. In...
[Joshua Muravchik] Revolution germ will spread in the Arab World

Feb 16, 2011

Few bets are safer today than that we will see more uprisings in the Middle East in 2011, though maybe not everywhere. One of the ironies of revolution is that it is hardest to do where it is needed ...
[Matthew Lynn] Women can win corporate sex war without Ackermann

Feb 16, 2011

If there is one German banker who isn’t taking gender equality seriously, it is Josef Ackermann. The Deutsche Bank AG chief executive officer is in hot water over flippant remarks he made about wome...
[Robert B. Reich] U.S. corporate recovery is more fragile than you think

Feb 16, 2011

At a time when corporate profits are through the roof, the Dow has reached 12,000, Wall Street paychecks are fat again, and big corporations are sitting on more than $1 trillion in cash, you’d expect...
Don’t let territorial dispute just drift along

Feb 15, 2011

During their meeting in Moscow last week, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, discussed the bilateral territorial dispute over four islands off Hokkaido but fai...
[Martin Khor] A new dawn, but many questions linger

Feb 15, 2011

People across the world were mesmerized last week by the remarkable images of the dramatic events in Egypt that eventually propelled President Hosni Mubarak out of office on Friday. In the end, the ...
[Michael Mandelbaum] Can Egypt become a true democracy?

Feb 15, 2011

WASHINGTON, DC ― Hosni Mubarak’s resignation as President of Egypt marks the beginning of an important stage in that country’s transition to a new political system. But will the political transition ...