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Bad economics isn’t necessarily unconstitutional

U.S. politics is apt to conflate disagreements about whether a policy is good or bad with disputes about whether it is constitutional. Reactions to...

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Clive Crook

'Shut-up act': Korea moves to criminalize challenges to NEC, absentee voting

Heo Chul-hoon, secretary general of the National Election Commission, answers questions at the National Assembly on Feb. 23. Yonhap Another piece of...

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Kang Hyun-Kyung

Germany is thinking the unthinkable on nuclear bomb

It was early 2025 when Vice President JD Vance made his bombshell speech at the Munich Security Conference about Europe’s “threat from within.”...

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Katja Hoyer

Will Seoul apartment prices fall after president’s social media blitz?

President Lee Jae Myung has turned to social media to denounce people who own multiple homes, calling them the main culprits behind soaring apartment...

wednesday 40

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Lee Hyo-Sik

How to create jobs for the world's 1.2 billion new workers

The world moves on different wavelengths. Some are high-frequency shocks — wars, emerging technologies, market panics — that spike quickly and...

23.02.2026 40

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Ajaypal Banga

Hegseth’s war on diversity is eroding America’s military edge

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has returned again and again to a familiar target: the military’s long-standing refrain that “our diversity is...

22.02.2026 40

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Jon Duffy

On Jesse Jackson, and the never-ending pursuit of a better world

22.02.2026 50

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David Banks

Hegseth’s war on diversity is eroding America’s military edge

22.02.2026 50

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Jon Duffy

Rising risk of youth gambling in Korea

22.02.2026 40

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Ma Kyung-Hee

Illusion of 'no less favorable' status

22.02.2026 50

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Kang Seung-Woo

Digital power broker: How YouTuber weaponizes influence to shape the DPK power game

22.02.2026 50

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Kang Hyun-Kyung

Silent demographic crisis

22.02.2026 50

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Samuel Len

On Jesse Jackson, and the never-ending pursuit of a better world

For those of us who grew up after the 1960s — at least those of us who are white and were raised in rural Minnesota — it seemed, perhaps, that the...

19.02.2026 60

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David Banks

Silent demographic crisis

11.02.2026 20

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Samuel Len

Extreme cold is a billion-dollar problem, too

09.02.2026 50

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Mark Gongloff

US Olympic team showcases America’s immigrants

05.02.2026 60

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Marissa Kiss And Jim Witte

Building a middle power world order

05.02.2026 50

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Anne-Marie Slaughter

Gucci's owner wants to help you age beautifully

04.02.2026 60

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Andrea Felsted

AI’s greatest challenge is managerial, not technological

03.02.2026 60

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Gautam Mukunda

Digital power broker: How YouTuber weaponizes influence to shape the DPK power game

Rep. Jung Chung-rae, left, chairman of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea, is seen with YouTuber Kim Ou-joon in this image captured from Kim's...

30.01.2026 60

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Kang Hyun-Kyung

Iran’s crisis is a test of US moral leadership

29.01.2026 70

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Daniel J. Arbess

Where to find solace in the age of ICE

27.01.2026 50

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Bob Kustra

Kristi Noem should be removed from office before she can do more harm

27.01.2026 70

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Raul A. Reyes

Humoring Donald Trump is appeasement, and appeasement is surrender

26.01.2026 60

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Elizabeth Shackelford

A crisis of numbers

23.01.2026 80

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Rushan Ziatdinov

Illusion of 'no less favorable' status

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Kang Seung-Woo

The champ gets a stamp — honor for Muhammad Ali is well deserved

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Leonard Greene

I’ve been the ‘doctor on board’ during an in-flight emergency. Airlines need better medical kits

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Tushara Surapaneni

Behind the blackout, Iran is drowning in blood

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Pegah Banihashemi

‘Save the whales’ worked for decades, but now gray whales are starving

16.01.2026 50

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David Helvarg

Attacking Powell only undercuts Trump’s goals

15.01.2026 50

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Bill Dudley

Rising risk of youth gambling in Korea

14.01.2026 70

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Ma Kyung-Hee

The price of distrust: Behind the doomed careers of three politicians

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Kang Hyun-Kyung

The DOJ suing for voter data is dangerous on many levels

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Barbara McQuade

The United States is better off as a global power than a global bully

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Elizabeth Shackelford

Panama’s warning for a post-Maduro Venezuela

11.01.2026 100

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Cristina Guevara

Family roots, search for identity

10.01.2026 70

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Kim Ji-Soo

Why did President Lee refer to Xi's remark as 'the words of Confucius'?

09.01.2026 100

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Shim Jae-Yun

10 unexpected things 2026 may bring

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Nir Kaissar

The Caracas precedent: Transactional realism and the erosion of sovereignty

07.01.2026 100

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Imran Khalid

Faith and compassion can see us through 2026

07.01.2026 100

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Willie Wilson

Enviable policies

07.01.2026 100

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Kim Ji-Soo

2026 preview: 'Now is the time of monsters'

06.01.2026 70

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Mason Richey

Rude, nagging, digitally illiterate: Inside Coupang hearing disaster

02.01.2026 100

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Kang Hyun-Kyung

Attacks in Australia and Syria show how difficult it is to eliminate terrorism

31.12.2025 40

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Daniel Depetris

Why we still look to zodiac to begin new year

31.12.2025 60

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Kwon Mee-Yoo

Repeat after me — never, ever underestimate China

30.12.2025 150

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Shuli Ren

Odd man out: Kim Byung-kee’s fall in the DPK

29.12.2025 100

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Kang Hyun-Kyung

Trump way out of line with Rob Reiner comments

25.12.2025 40

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Leonard Greene

Beyond fines: How Korea should respond to Coupang’s data breach, accountability gap

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Cho Hee-Kyoung