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[Henry William Brands] ‘Compromise’ wasn’t always a dirty word

With the House in the hands of Democrats and the Senate controlled by Republicans for the next two years, compromise will be essential to the passage of any legislation. But it won’t come easily. We ...

Jan 10, 2019
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[Jon Wiener] 2019 will be worst year of Trump’s life

Some presidents have really bad years. For Nixon, it was 1974 -- the Watergate year, which ended with his resignation. For Clinton, it was 1998 -- the Monica year, which culminated with an impeachm...

Jan 10, 2019
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[Letter to the Editor] Please do us a favor, by not going to the Hwacheon Sancheoneo (Mountain Trout) Ice festival.

If your idea of a good holiday is taking part in the mass killing of fish, brought in from farms to be crammed like sardines into a river -- blocked and sealed solely for this purpose -- awaiting tho...

Jan 10, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Life without Mattis’steadying hand

At home and abroad, people are now asking a question they’ve dreaded for nearly two years: How will the erratic presidency of Donald Trump function without the steadying hand of Jim Mattis as defense...

Jan 10, 2019
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[David Fickling] Belt and Road is more chaos than conspiracy

Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative a bold infrastructure vision, or a slush fund? The question is becoming more pressing. Chinese officials offered to help bail out state-owned 1Malaysia Developme...

Jan 10, 2019
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[Chon Shi-yong] Who will be 2019 Person of the Year?

The first and last months of each year see a flourish of announcements about “the person of the year” and the like. For me, it is interesting -- whether the announcements come from the Nobel committe...

Jan 9, 2019
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[J. Bradford DeLong] What will cause next US recession?

Over the past 40 years, the US economy has experienced four recessions. Among the four, only the extended downturn of 1979-1982 had a conventional cause. The US Federal Reserve thought that inflation...

Jan 9, 2019
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[Ernesto Araujo] Bolsonaro was not elected to take Brazil as he found it

“Brazilian foreign policy cannot change.” That is how a Brazilian politician summarized his dislike for the foreign policy of President Jair Bolsonaro and myself. Those views are representative of pe...

Jan 9, 2019
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[Virginia Heffernan] Women take US Congress, misogynists lash out

Just over a year ago, a writer named Kristen Roupenian published a short story in the New Yorker called “Cat Person.” It chronicled a brief, mediocre romance. At first, it was hard to say what made t...

Jan 9, 2019
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[Eli Lake] America isn’t abandoning fight against Iran

One of the most common arguments against President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw US forces from Syria is that it will strengthen Iran. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who was to leave Tuesday f...

Jan 9, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] Hemingway in Ronda, Spain

Recently, I revisited the famous Spanish town of Ronda to follow the trail of the late American writer Ernest Hemingway, who celebrated his last birthday there. Ronda is famous because the old town w...

Jan 8, 2019
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[Bloomberg] Let China get to yes on trade

The damage caused by US President Donald Trump’s trade fight with China has spread farther and faster than many expected. Factories in China and the US have seen orders slump. American farmers are hu...

Jan 8, 2019
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[Noah Feldman] Trump’s long shutdown could destabilize world

US President Donald Trump in a meeting with congressional Democrats on Friday said he was prepared for the partial government shutdown to continue for months -- or even years -- if he doesn’t get the...

Jan 8, 2019
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[Lee Jae-min] A whale of a departure

It was 1986 when the international community agreed on a ban on “commercial whaling.” Depleting whale stocks urged states to adopt an extraordinary measure. Except for the two states (Norway and Icel...

Jan 8, 2019
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[Joseph E. Stiglitz] From ‘yellow vests’ to Green New Deal

It’s old news that large segments of society have become deeply unhappy with what they see as “the establishment,” especially the political class. The “yellow vest” protests in France, triggered by P...

Jan 8, 2019
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