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[Justin Fox] Ending China’s birth limits won’t bring a baby boom

It looks like China’s decadesold policy of limiting births is finally going to bite the dust. As Bloomberg News reports from Beijing: China is planning to scrap all limits on the number of children...

May 24, 2018
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[Cass Sunstein] The destructive cycle of hating

There has been a great deal of discussion of social division and polarization in recent times, but those terms are inadequate. What besets the United States is much worse. Both the right and the le...

May 24, 2018
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[David Ignatius] In Russia probe, fringe characters take center stage

In the bizarre double helix that is the Russia investigation, one of the recurring themes is the role of would-be influencers. They start off as connectors and facilitators, but gradually (and implau...

May 24, 2018
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[Kim Kyung-ho] Moon lost on path to growth

In view of his publicized remarks, there seems to be no reason to doubt President Moon Jae-in’s will to push for innovation-driven growth by lifting regulations. On several occasions in the past mon...

May 23, 2018
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[Kim Myong-sik] Behind Kim Jong-un’s superb acting skills

Capricious, audacious, shrewd and merciless, yet enigmatic. These words are how South Koreans have branded North Korea’s supreme leaders over the seven-decade history of conflicts on the peninsula. T...

May 23, 2018
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[Cathy O’Neil] Let’s not forget how wrong our crime data are

Legalizing marijuana makes sense for a lot of reasons, but there’s one valuable thing we’ll lose when police stop arresting people for smoking pot: A sense of just how misleading our crime data are. ...

May 23, 2018
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[Nina Teicholz] Calories on menus won’t slim down America

Counting calories is now the law of the land. This month, a long-delayed regulation came into effect requiring all food chains with 20 or more locations to list calorie information on their menus. Nu...

May 23, 2018
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[John M. Crisp] Trump should cancel meeting with Kim Jong-un

The notion of a Nobel Peace Prize for President Donald Trump is a peculiar one, but only the most petty, hyperpartisan soul could wish for him to fail at the meeting currently scheduled for June 12 i...

May 23, 2018
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[Michael Pettis] Even $200 billion isn’t enough

Questions remain about just how many more US exports China’s promised to buy to avert a trade war: US officials have floated the figure of $200 billion annually, which would cut the bilateral trade d...

May 22, 2018
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[Kim Seong-kon] Advice for young Koreans from Admiral Yi

Recently, someone sent me a list of “Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s advice.” Admiral Yi was a celebrated Korean Navy general who successfully defended his country at sea from the Japanese invasion in 1592. Tot...

May 22, 2018
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[Julian Lee] Russia flexes its soft power muscles

Oil has touched a level above $80 a barrel for the first time since November 2014. OPEC’s inventory target for output cuts has been met. But even though its oil companies want to turn on the taps a...

May 22, 2018
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[John R. Eperjesi] The mephitic breath of global warming: PM2.5 as hyperobject

In Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World, Timothy Morton observes that, “You can no longer have a routine conversation about the weather with a stranger. The presence of glo...

May 22, 2018
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[Amy Nathan] You’re never too old, busy or rusty to make music

Eighty-five percent of adults in the US who do not play a musical instrument wish they had learned to play one, according to a 2009 Gallup Poll; 69 percent would like to play one now. Nearly all beli...

May 22, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Resentment of crazy-rich Americans isn’t just envy

In the forthcoming movie “Crazy Rich Asians,” an American woman discovers that her boyfriend belongs to Singapore’s secretive, obnoxious jet set. It’s fun to laugh at the ultrarich when they’re just ...

May 21, 2018
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[Matthew Mitchell] Sports wagering has an unlikely foe

Last week the Supreme Court ruled in favor of an issue that seems to be nearing a tipping point in terms of public acceptance: sports betting. But will it be enough to overcome staunch opposition fro...

May 21, 2018
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