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[Tyler Cowen] Entertainment partial solution of COVID-19

Mar 17, 2020

First the NBA postponed its season, with no immediate resumption in sight, and then March Madness was canceled. Broadway has been shuttered, along with other public entertainments across the country,...
[Kim Seong-kon] Lesson from Academy Award-winning Parasite

Mar 17, 2020

Ostensibly, the 2020 Academy Award-winning South Korean film “Parasite” seems to depict the problems of a polarized society here, sharply divided between the rich and the poor. That was why Korean le...
[Stephen Mihm] Why the US doesn’t have enough hospital beds

Mar 15, 2020

Hospitals often speak of what’s called “surge capacity” -- the ability to absorb a sudden influx of patients because of a terrorist attack, a natural disaster, or even, yes, a pandemic. Given the pos...
[Martin Schram] Can we cure pandemic politics?

Mar 15, 2020

It is a cliche of our times to hail something as a tipping point -- a happening that will change something forever. And what Americans experienced throughout Wednesday really didn’t happen in a way ...
[Letter to Editor] Religious freedom and COVID-19 epidemic

Mar 15, 2020

On March 2, Rev. Lee Man-hee, the founder of the Shincheonji religious sect, expressed remorse that so many patients were tied to his church. If Rev. Lee apologized to the Korean people of his own fr...
[Serendipity] Love, kindness will see us through

Mar 12, 2020

The novel coronavirus has landed at my doorsteps. Literally. Almost 60 days into the COVID-19 outbreak, my mobile phone screeched an alert with a message that two people in my neighborhood were confi...
[Barry Ritholtz] Rules for coping with market panic

Mar 12, 2020

People don’t like being told what to do, and when agitated they really dislike being told to be less agitated. So rather than just tell you not to panic (seriously, DON‘T PANIC), I will offer some th...
[Francis Wilkinson] How Sanders saved the Democratic Party

Mar 12, 2020

With his string of primary losses today to former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders has revitalized the institution that he most loves to hate: the Democratic Party. Sanders had hoped to ...
[Noah Smith] Taxing bad things isn't always good

Mar 11, 2020

The idea of taxing things that are bad for society has a powerful allure. It offers the possibility of a double benefit -- discouraging harmful activities, while also providing the government with re...
[Kim Myong-sik] Park stirs up politics in epidemic-stricken nation

Mar 11, 2020

Three years after her impeachment and subsequent imprisonment, former president Park Geun-hye revealed her intent to play a part in Korean politics and she proved she still could. Her letter from pri...
[Robert J. Fouser] Lessons from the Spanish flu

Mar 10, 2020

Since March began, the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has spread rapidly around the world, causing broad disruption in its wake. The speed of the spread has caught leaders and public health of...
[Kim Seong-kon] Korea’s image battered by coronavirus outbreak

Mar 10, 2020

Until the recent outbreak of the new coronavirus, South Korea’s reputation in the international community could not have been better. For the past few decades, Samsung, LG, and Hyundai have significa...
[Nisha Gopalan] SARS lessons inoculate HK against epidemic

Mar 9, 2020

Hong Kong has fewer coronavirus cases than the US, Singapore or Italy. That might seem surprising for a city that sits on the doorstep of mainland China and has intertwining business, tourism and per...
[Kevin Rudd] COVID-19 trumps nationalism

Mar 9, 2020

I was recently walking along East 29th Street in Manhattan, after visiting a friend at Bellevue Hospital, when I was roused from my thoughts by a middle-aged white male screaming at an old Chinese ma...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Coronavirus is human credit crunch

Mar 8, 2020

It is the flow of people, as much as money, that keeps the global economy ticking over. It follows that a sudden halt to the movement of workers, shoppers and tourists should worry us just as much as...