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Thailand’s failure to win a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council last week came down to several factors, but the most important was suppression of …

At the Western Finance Association meeting this summer, I heard a presentation of an interesting paper titled “… and the Cross-Section of Expected …

BERKELEY ― The story goes like this: Since 1979 ― the peak of the last business cycle before the inauguration of Ronald Reagan as President ― economic …

These days in America you can do all sorts of things legally, if you don’t mind leaving home. For example, if you want to cavort with prostitutes, we have a …

Prospects of a second round of high-level inter-Korean talks seem to have dimmed as Seoul’s date for the talks, Oct. 30, has come and gone. Unable to agree …

The international community’s concerted efforts to pressure North Korea on its human rights record is eliciting a response from the isolated state, …

WASHINGTON ― A glimpse of the anxiety sweeping the Arab world surfaced last week when an Arab woman complained during a talk in Amman at the Columbia Global …

PARIS ― Some warped minds believe that when a nation suffers a terrorist attack, it somehow deserved it and should set about doing some soul-searching. …

In general, Koreans follow politics closely. You can easily overhear people discussing politics on mountain trails, at family gatherings for Chuseok and in …

Government figures showed this week the number of self-employed individuals and irregular workers has been rising continuously. This trend raises the need for …