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[Sasha Fisher] Democracy beyond voting and protests

For over a decade now, we have witnessed more elections and, simultaneously, less democracy. According to Bloomberg, elections have been occurring more frequently around the world. Yet Freedom House ...

Feb 17, 2019
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[Cass R. Sunstein] Case for curbing social media getting stronger

The US government should not regulate social media. It should stay far away from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and the rest. Any regulatory effort might well violate the First Amendment. Even...

Feb 17, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Trump, Kim could make world safer

The showy first summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un last June was draped in flags and bunting, but the decoration covered what turned out to be a mostly empty...

Feb 14, 2019
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[Joseph E. Stiglitz] How can we tax footloose multinationals?

In the last few years, globalization has come under renewed attack. Some of the criticisms may be misplaced, but one is spot on: Globalization has enabled large multinationals, like Apple, Google, an...

Feb 14, 2019
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[Rachel Marsden] US should resist urge to use mercenaries

US President Donald Trump has expressed a clear aversion to war. As he said in his recent State of the Union address, “As a candidate for president, I pledged a new approach. Great nations do not fig...

Feb 14, 2019
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[Prue Clarke] How foreign aid fuels African media’s payola problem

At a recent press conference, a small group of Liberian journalists made a courageous admission: They confessed they were all “on the take.” To supplement salaries as low as $40 a month, the journali...

Feb 14, 2019
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[John Kass] Teaching moment from Virginia Democrats

If there were a state that could educate Americans on politics, and what happens when virtue smacks up against raw political power, you’d have to say it’s Virginia. Illinois is broken. People flee I...

Feb 14, 2019
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[Kim Myong-sik] Park’s political gambit may upset conservative front

For the first time in about two years, former President Park Geun-hye has taken a political gambit from inside a suburban Seoul prison. She did not directly challenge the holders of power or the law ...

Feb 13, 2019
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[Ana Palacio] What Venezuela tells Europe about Russia

On Jan. 23, National Assembly President Juan Guaido swore himself in as Venezuela’s interim president before thousands of citizens, in an open challenge to the legitimacy of Venezuelan President Nico...

Feb 13, 2019
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[Nobuko Kobayashi] Japan’s women need more than jobs

Japan’s leaders seem happy to rest the country’s fate on the shoulders of its women. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to get more of them out of the home to compensate for a shrinking workforce. His d...

Feb 13, 2019
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[Shuli Ren] China’s 5G riches are a blocked number for investors

How can investors profit from China’s race with the US for 5G supremacy? Finding the answer is as tricky as figuring out the geopolitics. The nation’s sleepy telecom stocks came back to life after H...

Feb 13, 2019
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[Conor Sen] Older workers need different kind of layoff

The proposed merger between SunTrust and BB&T makes sense for both firms -- which is why Wall Street sent both stocks higher Thursday after the announcement. But employees of the two banks, especiall...

Feb 13, 2019
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[Andy Mukherjee] India’s shadow bank tumult casts widening gloom

It’s time India’s policymakers acknowledged the real problem facing the country’s shadow banks. What they are experiencing is no longer a vanilla liquidity shortage; the entire industry has crashed a...

Feb 12, 2019
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[Hal Brands] South America is battlefield in new Cold War

The political crisis in Venezuela has pitted the US against a dictator who refuses to leave office. But the crisis has a broader significance: It shows that Latin America has again become an arena in...

Feb 12, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] What is happiness and what makes us happy?

We all want to be happy. But what is happiness and what makes us happy? We may assume that material abundance will make us happy. If we ask wealthy people, however, they will certainly assure us that...

Feb 12, 2019
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