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[Editorial] Cardinal’s visit to Gaeseong

Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung visited the North Korean city of Gaeseong on Wednesday to meet Catholic workers in the factories run by South Korean firms there. …

[Editorial] New P.M. nominee

It seems that President Park Geun-hye has set out on a sweeping shakeup of senior government posts, which she hopes will help the nation and her administration …

[Robert Reich] American women at risk
[Robert Reich] American women at risk

According to a report released earlier this month in the widely respected health research journal The Lancet, the United States now ranks 60th out of 180 …

Markets’ Federal Reserve love story

LAGUNA BEACH, California ― The morning drive to my 11-year old daughter’s school is always fun, and often a source of insight. That was certainly the case …

U.S., China go private with the Cold War

PARIS ― The U.S. Justice Department filed charges this week against five Chinese military officers, accusing them of hacking American companies to steal …

[Editorial] Foreign workers’ safety

The deadly sinking of the Sewol, which has put all Koreans in anguish for the past month, is having the effect of raising awareness about the nation’s poor …

[Cass R. Sunstein] Open brain, insert ideology
[Cass R. Sunstein] Open brain, insert ideology

Suppose that an authoritarian government decides to embark on a program of curricular reform, with the explicit goal of indoctrinating the nation’s high …

[Editorial] A better alternative

President Park Geun-hye’s decision to disband the organization of maritime police revealed the depth of her wrath at its poor initial response to the ferry …

Vote-buying and democracy in Indonesia

Listening to the complaints about “vote-buying” by some of the sore losers of the recent legislative election or watching some of them going nuts after …

[Salman Haidar] Time for stocktaking after Modi’s election win
[Salman Haidar] Time for stocktaking after Modi’s election win

Narendra Modi is a largely unknown quantity to India’s partners abroad and they have some catching up to do. Some of the contours of future regional and …

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