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[David Ignatius] Jamal Khashoggi chose to tell truth. It’s part of reason he’s beloved.

George Orwell titled a regular column he wrote for a British newspaper in the mid-1940s “As I Please.” Meaning that he would write exactly what he believed. My Saudi colleague Jamal Khashoggi has alw...

Oct 10, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Trump needs plan to win trade war with China

President Donald Trump’s trade war is less bad than it was just a short time ago. After some tense negotiations, the North American Free Trade Agreement has been replaced with a new, very similar arr...

Oct 10, 2018
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[Matthew F. Ferraro] ‘America First’ will likely fizzle fast

The “America First” policy President Donald Trump extolls “has won,” scholar Robert Kagan wrote in a recent op-ed, surmising that the administration’s preference for unilateralism, trade protectionis...

Oct 10, 2018
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[Kim Ji-hyun] Looking forward, not back

A few years ago, I was going through a very rough patch personally. There was a person I couldn’t bear to forgive. It’s not like I didn’t have a hand in the matter, but due to a complicated web of re...

Oct 10, 2018
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[Hal Brands] China hack shows weakness of Pence’s new hard-line

If you thought the US-China relationship couldn‘t get much worse, consider what happened on Thursday alone. First there was a bombshell report from Bloomberg Businessweek of a major Chinese espionage...

Oct 9, 2018
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[Tyler Cowen] Renaming NAFTA just might work

The Trump administration’s renegotiation of NAFTA is decidedly underwhelming, the product of a toxic process that made only a modest modification of the original deal. The administration’s renaming o...

Oct 9, 2018
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[Robert Fouser] Looking into global rankings of Korean universities

The Korean media like international rankings and report on them frequently. During the boom years, Korea’s rankings in gross domestic product growth and per capita GDP made for big headlines, but thi...

Oct 9, 2018
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[Kim Seong-kon] Dreaming of a country we want

It is undoubtedly a blessing for anyone to have a country of his own, a place to which he can always return after traveling abroad and where he can live happily and comfortably with his friends and r...

Oct 9, 2018
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[David Cay Johnston] Allegations of years of tax dodges add to an awful truth -- the president as ‘financial vampire’

Americans were confronted Tuesday with a profound problem, one that challenges our commitment to accountable democratic government and justice. It is an awful truth that we must face now that the New...

Oct 9, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Let immigrants save America’s struggling cities

Immigrants who want to work in the US can be sponsored either by individuals -- usually family members -- or companies. Regional immigration is a proposed variation on this system, in which a region ...

Oct 9, 2018
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[Stephen L. Carter] Supreme Court needs term limits

Suddenly everybody wants to explore term limits for Supreme Court justices. Welcome aboard. I’ve been on that train for almost a quarter of a century. The current argument is that life tenure is a le...

Oct 8, 2018
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[David Ignatius] Trump’s bullying tactics with Iran could backfire

President Donald Trump seems convinced that he has found the formula for success in foreign policy: Bully your adversaries, sanction them, squeeze them -- and then flatter them and make a deal. Trum...

Oct 8, 2018
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[Jayati Ghosh] Asia’s strongmen and their weak economies

US President Donald Trump grabs the most headlines, but the cult of the strongman leader is most developed in Asia. The continent abounds with rulers -- including Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi,...

Oct 7, 2018
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[John Nery] The Marcos family’s last gasp

With President Duterte in power, the Marcos family is ascendant in Philippine national politics again. The remains of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos have been buried at the national heroes’ cemet...

Oct 7, 2018
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[Dakota L. Wood] Shrinking and overworked US military can barely pass inspection

We place a lot of demands on our fine US military, and the good news is -- at home and in many places around the world -- it’s meeting those demands. Now the bad news: We’re wearing it out. After 17...

Oct 7, 2018
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