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Sat, September 25, 2021 | 02:35

Meaning of 'small government'

Earlier this month, two presidential hopefuls from the conservative main opposition People Power Party (PPP), Yoo Seong-min and Ha Tae-keung, pledged to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, if they win the presidential election.

2021-07-25 17:00

'Proxy adoption,' the IR-4 visa and US citizenship for adoptees from Korea

The scale and persistence with which Korea has historically exported its children remain unmatched by any other country in the world to this day. Over nearly seven decades, this country has sent away over 200,000 children. One major means that enabled such a large-scale phenomenon was the use of “proxy adoption.”

2021-07-24 09:47

Variant threat is real

STOCKHOLM - It has now been 18 months since the SARS-CoV-2 virus was first sequenced in China. Within a month, the World Health Organization (WHO) had issued its highest possible global alert, declaring the COVID-19 outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Weeks later, the WHO declared a pandemic. Yet we are nowhere near the end of the crisis. On the contr...

2021-07-22 17:00

What did Biden achieve in Geneva?

CAMBRIDGE - When U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin held their first summit in Geneva last month, cyber weapons played a larger role on the agenda than the nuclear kind. Clearly the world has changed since the Cold War, but what, if anything, did Biden accomplish?

2021-07-22 16:33

Shane died

After watching “Shane” so many times over the years, beginning with the first time I saw the classic film in 1962, I have to consider seriously that Shane, a cowboy knight-errant, died at the end of the film.

2021-07-22 16:15

Fauci can defeat virus, but not conspiracy theories

About 34 million people have fallen ill with COVID-19 in the U.S. and nearly 610,000 have died. Protection is readily at hand, but is going to waste in storage and in some cases while millions refuse to avail themselves of it.

2021-07-22 16:04

Why South Korea cannot achieve denuclearization of Korean Peninsula

The Moon Jae-in administration's “peace process” for leading the North to give up its nuclear weapons proved the limits of negotiations without the United States. Since President Moon took office in May 2017, Seoul has reversed its hostile policies against Pyongyang, set by the previous conservative administrations, to restart dialogue. The PyeongChang Olympics in 2018 create...

2021-07-21 16:50

Going it alone: The rise of Asia's solo economy

Asian consumers are expected to account for half of global consumption growth in the next decade, offering a $10 trillion opportunity. However, the increasing spending power of the region's consumers is not only a story of scale, but also one of diversity and shifting preferences and behaviors caused by powerful demographic, social and economic forces.

2021-07-21 09:00

Will another taper tantrum hit emerging markets?

SAO PAULO - In early July, the yield on U.S. ten-year Treasury bonds fell to its lowest level in four months, and stock markets dipped on fears that this year's rosy projections for economic growth will not be borne out. Still, the prevailing view is that the recent spike in inflation will be transitory, allowing the U.S. Federal Reserve to pursue a smooth unwinding of its ba...

2021-07-20 17:00

Why critical race theory is so dangerous

When Thurgood Marshall was strategizing his legal attack on segregation in the public school system of Topeka, Kansas, he asked psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark to repeat an experiment they had first conducted twenty years earlier in the 1930s.

2021-07-19 16:16

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