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[Adam Minter] Children silent victims of coronavirus

May 1, 2020

Many parents felt a profound sense of relief when analyses of the coronavirus found that kids rarely show symptoms and usually aren’t at much risk. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean they’re safe from...
[James Rosen] Coronavirus doing what Cold War never could

Apr 30, 2020

Turns out, President Donald Trump’s supporters were right when they denounced his most fervent critics’ over-the-top comparisons of him to Hitler. Maybe the more apt comparison is to longtime former ...
[Kim Seong-kon] Why have I become modernist again despite its faults?

Apr 29, 2020

I was a modernist when I wrote my MA thesis on literary modernism. Later, however, when I decided to write my doctoral dissertation on postmodernism at the State University of New York at Buffalo, I ...
[Hal Brands] The case for modest multilateralism

Apr 28, 2020

Great global traumas have a way of revealing the gap between the sort of international system we might like and the sort of international system we actually have. The coronavirus pandemic is no excep...
[Mark Buchanan] Virus could sway climate change doubters

Apr 27, 2020

If the coronavirus pandemic has made one thing clear, it’s that knowledge, preparation and science matter. Political spin can win elections and keep millions of people misinformed, but it doesn’t swa...
[Noah Smith] Virus crisis may keep Sanders revolution rolling

Apr 25, 2020

Now that Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed presumptive candidate Joe Biden, it‘s worth considering just how profoundly Sanders seems to have shifted the policy land...
[Serendipity] Fear, distrust caused by virus spell doom for all

Apr 24, 2020

With the World Health Organization predicting that the coronavirus will not dissipate anytime soon, we are left to grapple with the stark reality of living with a highly contagious, still largely unk...
[Eric Teo] Look ahead to strengthen cooperation in the time of COVID-19

Apr 24, 2020

The first four months of 2020 have flashed by, and we are almost in May! Cold winter has given way to sunny spring and the beautiful flowers are blooming again. I still remember attending several tra...
[Ana Palacio] US cannot become another Europe

Apr 24, 2020

In 1946, with war-ravaged Europe exhausted and in disarray, Britain’s wartime leader, Winston Churchill, gave a speech in Zurich in which he emphasized the need to “recreate the European fabric” in o...
[Kim Myong-Sik] Time to reset economic goals, declare tolerance

Apr 23, 2020

On the day after the April 15 election, a lawyer friend of mine living in California sent me an SNS message, quoting French philosopher Joseph de Maistre: “Every nation gets the government it deserve...
[Keith Harrington] The spies who predicted COVID-19

Apr 23, 2020

Intelligence agencies are used to making headlines when they fail to do their job. But after months of US President Donald Trump ignoring their warnings about COVID-19, and after years of his adminis...
[Robert J. Fouser] South Korea’s political realignment

Apr 23, 2020

Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, South Korean voters went to the polls to choose a new National Assembly for the next four years. The ruling Democratic Party won a landslide victory, giving it an o...
[Mohamed Salah Eldin] Korea’s effort to overcome COVID-19: solidarity, alertness, innovation

Apr 22, 2020

“We are facing a global health crisis unlike any in the 75-year history of the United Nations.” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said this in a video news conference on March 19, urging urgent ...
[Kim Seong-kon] Letter from a senior to younger generations

Apr 22, 2020

The April election is over. The outcome was a landslide victory for the progressive ruling party and a total disaster for the conservative opposition party. Of course, opinion varies depending on th...
[Pankaj Mishra] Old media suddenly has upper hand

Apr 21, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has torn the veil off a long-obscured and frightening reality: Our economies are unconscionably fragile, propped up by low-wage jobs, and our health systems are tissue-thin. ...