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![[Clive Crook] Greece and Germany agree the euro can’t work](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/20150622001591_01.jpg "[Clive Crook] Greece and Germany agree the euro can’t work")
Ahead of Monday’s European Union summit, the only thing you can rule out is a happy ending. Whatever happens at the leaders’ meeting ― even if a deal of …
Sailing down the Moscow River on a cool evening earlier this month, I found myself in intense conversation with the chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of …
In a recent Washington Post column, Sergei Guriev, one of Russia’s top economic thinkers, warned that President Vladimir Putin’s regime was now exclusively …
In thinking about social change, a lot depends on choosing the right metaphor. I once saw society as a machine whose problems could be fixed with engineering. …
![[William Pesek] Japan’s actions may influence U.S. presidential campaign](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/20150621000347_01.jpg "[William Pesek] Japan’s actions may influence U.S. presidential campaign")
American politics rarely factors into the policies set by the Bank of Japan. But Haruhiko Kuroda’s recent comments about the yen suggest Washington is very …
Two years ago, former NSA contractor and CIA employee Edward Snowden bailed to Hong Kong with a stash of digitized top-secret documents, some of which have …
WASHINGTON ― The two dynastic candidates told compelling stories recently about why they should be president, but there has been one big difference: Jeb Bush …
If the plans go well, the government will likely approve one or two Internet-only banks within this year, which would open a new era in the nation’s …
The outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome is severely eroding President Park Geun-hye’s job ratings as fears of the contagious disease have gripped …
Amid Kuomintang Deputy Legislative Speaker Hung Hsiu-chu’s win of the ruling party’s primary presidential approval polls with 46 percent, Democratic …