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How to end the NSA dragnet surveillance

One year ago this month, Americans learned that their government was engaged in secret dragnet surveillance, which contradicted years of assurances to the …

[Andrew J. Bacevich] Can Obama pull a Nixon with the Iraq crisis?
[Andrew J. Bacevich] Can Obama pull a Nixon with the Iraq crisis?

For the United States, the Iraq war ranks as the most consequential foreign policy failure since Vietnam. In neither instance did U.S. forces succumb to …

Iraq could break into explosive fragments

Cue the partisan finger-pointing on Iraq: The left will say the unfolding disaster in Iraq is George W. Bush’s fault. The right will blame President Barack …

[Editorial] Mortgage reform

The debate over housing market regulations has been rekindled as Finance Minister nominee Choi Kyoung-hwan is suggesting the need to ease them as part of …

[Editorial] Endangered ties

Korea is bracing for the worst in its ties with Japan as the Tokyo government is set to disclose the results of its controversial scrutiny of the background of …

[Robert J. Fouser] What is progressive education?
[Robert J. Fouser] What is progressive education?

The recent local elections gave both parties a mixed result, which has become the norm in Korean politics. The ruling Saenuri Party avoided expected heavy …

China’s brewing subprime mortgage crisis

China’s infamous “ghost cities” are even scarier than they sound. As home prices across China have fallen 10.2 percent in the first five months of this …

[Kim Seong-kon] ‘Korea’s 13’ and the future of Korean education
[Kim Seong-kon] ‘Korea’s 13’ and the future of Korean education

In the mesmerizing Hollywood film “Ocean’s 13” Daniel Ocean gathers his 13 deft partners to ruin the wicked capitalist Willy Bank on the opening night of …

Has the ‘Nehruvian consensus’ come to an end?

NEW DELHI ― The victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party and its leader, Narendra Modi, in India’s general election last month has raised a crucial question …

Voters’ message behind Eric Cantor’s defeat

Voters’ revolts are always instructive. But first you have to figure out what the voters were trying to say. And in the days since Rep. Eric Cantor, the …

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