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[Peter D. Sutherland] A better year for migrants?
[Peter D. Sutherland] A better year for migrants?

The Mediterranean migration crisis has delivered two critical lessons. First, Europe and the international community have grossly inadequate systems for …

Be scared of China’s debt, not its stocks

China’s stock market is crashing again. After two days this week with big and rapid declines — the latest of which shut off trading only a few minutes …

How much experience should a president have?

T. Boone Pickens is upset about a presidential nominating process he says “emphasizes accusation and innuendo” and wants to form “a bipartisan screening …

[Editorial] Nuclear fallout

North Korea’s surprise nuclear test last week has added to the long list of negative factors for the Korean economy. North Korea has already warned of war in …

[Editorial] China factor

The world has learned through North Korea’s fourth nuclear test that it will not give up its weapons of mass destruction. Another thing the world should …

Uncoordinated policy

A well-intended policy often produces an effect opposite to what was intended due to a lack of coordination among the ministries involved. The latest example …

Turning up loudspeakers

The Seoul government has resumed anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts along the heavily fortified border with North Korea. As the rogue state has crossed the …

[Robert B. Reich] Ending vicious circle of wealth
[Robert B. Reich] Ending vicious circle of wealth

What’s at stake this election year? Let me put as directly as I can. America has succumbed to a vicious circle in which great wealth translates into …

[Chris Stone] The public sphere’s new enemies

Before November’s terrorist attacks in Paris, it was legal to stage a demonstration in a public square in that city. Now it isn’t. In Uganda, although …

[Zahid Hussain] The showdown between Saudi Arabia and Iran
[Zahid Hussain] The showdown between Saudi Arabia and Iran

The escalating tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran over the kingdom’s execution of a prominent Shia cleric has intensified sectarian polarization in the …

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