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[Robert J. Fouser] Is ‘Korean New Deal’ needed?

Aug 14, 2020

A month ago, on July 14, President Moon Jae-in gave a speech outlining the “Korean New Deal.” The term takes its name from US President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s sweeping response to the Great Depressi...
[Kim Myong-sik] Socialist approach fails in real estate market

Aug 13, 2020

After numerous failures, policymakers of the Moon Jae-in government must by now know that they cannot control apartment prices with tough restrictive measures on property transactions. With their lat...
[Cass R. Sunstein] Republicans’ dangerous hypocrisy

Aug 13, 2020

The system of separation of powers is in real trouble. That’s the main conclusion to draw from President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders, attempting to circumvent Congress with actions that (h...
[James Stavridis] Scowcroft never hated his enemies

Aug 12, 2020

As I was preparing to assume duties as supreme allied commander at NATO a decade ago, the two people I sought out for counsel were both generals: Colin Powell and Brent Scowcroft. The advice from Po...
[Lee Mun-ki] Citizens bring life to park

Aug 12, 2020

Couples taking a walk with their dogs in the neighboring park after work, parents vigorously riding bicycles with their children in the fresh air at a lake park on weekends, neighbors occasionally wa...
[Kim Seong-kon] Memorable phrases in films

Aug 12, 2020

We tend to think that movies are merely a form of entertainment, but this is only partially true. In fact, a film is an excellent cultural text and an important social document. Furthermore, a film i...
[Shang-Jin Wei] The US may lose in Trump’s TikTok war

Aug 11, 2020

Following US President Donald Trump’s vow to block US access to TikTok, the popular short-video app’s Chinese parent company ByteDance has been in frantic talks with Microsoft, presumably to sell its...
[J. Bradford DeLong] Morgue testing the US economy

Aug 11, 2020

US national income and output in the first quarter of 2020 was 1.25 percent below what it had been in the fourth quarter of 2019, but still 9.5 percent above what it would be by the second quarter of...
[Sarah Halzack] Summer of COVID-19 marks the end of office clothes

Aug 10, 2020

Professional attire has been evolving for decades into ever more casual modes. For men, suits gave way to blazers and slacks, then blazers and dark jeans, and then just jeans and a button-up. For wom...
[Tyler Cowen] Coronavirus moralizing has to stop

Aug 10, 2020

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[Seth G. Jones & Juan C. Zarate] US faces new threats, but we have failed to adapt

Aug 7, 2020

It has now been more than five months since a US intelligence assessment included in President Donald Trump’s Daily Brief suggested that Russia was paying bounties to Taliban fighters for attacking U...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Europe’s vulnerable ‘last dictator’

Aug 7, 2020

In an era of authoritarian populists, at least one iron-fisted leader is looking more vulnerable than he has in decades. Yes, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko will claim another resounding vic...
[Digital Simplicity] Lost in translation due to raging dispute over mobile game

Aug 6, 2020

Once in a while, a well-made game hits the market, gets mostly positive reviews from gamers and rakes in handsome profits over an extended period. To achieve this daunting goal, it must have two main...
[Eli Lake] Biden should give Maduro reason to worry

Aug 6, 2020

One of the defining features of the Trump years has been the collapse of bipartisan consensus on foreign policy. There is at least one notable exception, however: support for a democratic transition ...
[Noah Smith] Developing nations are dealt a one-two hit to growth

Aug 6, 2020

Recent decades have been glorious for developing countries, where rapid growth has lifted millions of their citizens out of crushing poverty. But the coronavirus pandemic is threatening to halt their...