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Wed, December 19, 2018 | 23:27

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Europe's coming year of reckoning

Politically, 2019 will be an extraordinarily important year for the European Union. The United Kingdom is currently on track to leave the EU on March 29, 2019. And, following elections to the European Parliament in May, nearly all of the most important leadership positions across EU institutions will turn over.

Guest Column | 2018-11-02 17:05

Political stalemate in Lebanon

Ever since May's parliamentary election, political parties in Lebanon have been jostling over the composition of the Cabinet of the new national unity government and a kind of uncertainty has enveloped the political and economic outlook of the country.

Guest Column | 2018-11-01 17:18

President refuses to take responsibility for dangerous rhetoric

If President Trump were a different - and better - man, he would have reacted to the sickening slaughter of 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue by engaging in some sober self-examination and refraining from incendiary comments that might energize other violent extremists.

Guest Column | 2018-11-01 17:15

New tyranny of dollar

Donald Trump may not want to launch wars in the Middle East, but that doesn't mean he's getting the United States out of the regime-change business. His administration has made it clear that it wants crippling sanctions on Iran to serve the same purpose as the Bush administration's 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Guest Column | 2018-10-31 18:08

Murders in Pittsburgh, anti-Semitism in Illinois election

The armed man who entered a Pittsburgh synagogue on a Sabbath morning to massacre Jewish worshippers was infected by a disease of hatred that customarily lurks in dark corners.

Guest Column | 2018-10-31 18:07

Tyranny of hate is threatening our glorious experiment

There comes a moment in the history of any people when the strength of their united character is put to the test. A moment when the labels we assign each other _ rich, poor, white, black, red, blue _ must by great necessity be set aside in order to protect the fundamental good that lies at the heart of the American experiment.

Guest Column | 2018-10-30 17:18

Disruptive power of ethnic nationalism

This summer, Israel passed a controversial new “nation-state law” that asserted that “the right [to exercise] national self-determination” is “unique to the Jewish people” and established Hebrew as Israel's official language, downgrading Arabic to a “special status.”

Guest Column | 2018-10-30 17:16

'Writing helps me become better person'

Lee Sun-ho, a long-time contributor to Thoughts of the Times, an opinion column in The Korea Times, said his continued writing over the past 51 years has helped him become more attentive to a wide range of issues.

Guest Column | 2018-10-29 18:23

Why Sino-American cold war won't happen

It is often said that the U.S. and China - superpowers at economic, geopolitical, and ideological loggerheads - are heading toward a new cold war. And the rhetoric - at least from one side - has come to resemble that of Winston Churchill's 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech, one of the inaugural events of the Cold War.

Guest Column | 2018-10-29 17:12

Trump administration takes on drug prices

In his most aggressive response to date to high prescription drug prices, President Trump wants Medicare to obtain better deals by negotiating with pharmaceutical companies - just not directly. The proposal would affect only a limited number of drugs and would come with some potentially harmful side effects, but it's a promising start.

Guest Column | 2018-10-29 17:07

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