National Politics Social Affairs Foreign Affairs Defense North Korea Science Diplomatic Circuit Education Business Economy Finance Industry Technology Automode Life&Style Culture Travel Fashion Food & Beverage Books People Expat Living Arts & Design Health Entertainment Film Television Music Theater World World News World Business Asia News Network Sports Soccer Baseball Golf More Sports Opinion Editorial Viewpoints English Eye Podcast English Cafe Go to Desktop Version Weekender Subscribe Leader’s Club Korean Mobile App Twitter Facebook Youtube RSS OPINION Today Columnists [Joseph E. Stiglitz] People vs. money in America’s midterm elections All eyes are on the United States as November’s Congressional elections approach. The outcome will answer many alarming questions raised two years ago, when Donald Trump won the presidential election.Will the US electorate declare that Trump is not what America is about? Will voters renounce his racism, misogyny, nativism and protectionism? Will they say that his “America First” rejection of the international rule of law is not what the US stands for? Or will they make it clear that Trump’s win Today Columnists [Contribution] Global warming threatens Kiribati By Korea Herald Today Columnists [Hal Brands] Saudi crisis shows US needs new way to deal with dictators The disappearance of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi has precipitated a new crisis in US-Saudi relations. Yet that crisis has also revived a much older dilemma in American strategy: How to deal with allies that also happen to be morally abhorrent, even murderous, dictatorships. The rapid spread of democracy from the 1970s through the early 2000s eased this dilemma, by aligning the frontiers of freedom more closely with the frontiers of America’s European and Asia-Pacific alliances. Yet the proble Today Columnists [Anjani Trivedi] Uncover your eyes. There’s no China car crash By Bloomberg Today Columnists [Mac Margolis] Brazil’s candidates need to stop violence By Bloomberg Today Columnists [Jennifer Huddleston Skees] Tech is new scary story -- but why? By Korea Herald Today Editorial [Editorial] Too hasty By Korea Herald Oct 17, 2018 Columnists [Noah Smith] China is the climate-change battleground By Bloomberg Oct 17, 2018 Columnists [Stephen Mihm] Trump is risking an even greater chicken war By Bloomberg Oct 17, 2018 Columnists [Kim Seong-kon] The importance of being moderate When I studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo 40 years ago, my dissertation director, Leslie Fielder, taught me to always stay in the middle, avoiding both extremes. He used to tell me, “In a polarized society, it is not easy to stay in the middle because you will be criticized by both extremes. But that is what an intellectual should do.”When I studied at Columbia later, my academic adviser, Edward Said, also enlightened me, saying, “Although I am a Left intellectual, I am neith Oct 17, 2018 Columnists [Lee Jae-min] Better late than never We were hoping that 2018 was an aberration. That countries were just reacting emotionally. That things would return to normal come next year. Sadly, those hopes were just hopes and recent reports confirm what many of us suspected and still dread: Global trade will not exit the “protectionist” orbit anytime soon, and China-US trade relations will continue on a collision course. To a country struggling to overcome an economic slowdown, with red lights flashing on major indicators, nothing could be Oct 17, 2018 Columnists [Alan Bollard] A decade of disruption comes home to roost By Korea Herald Oct 17, 2018 Editorial [Editorial] Perilous peace By Korea Herald Oct 16, 2018 Columnists [David Ignatius] Western spy agencies strike back One of the most satisfying moments in any spy thriller is when the bad guy -- the black hat operative who has been killing and tormenting his adversaries -- does something dumb and gets caught. That’s essentially what’s been happening recently with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s pet spy agency, the GRU. What’s fascinating about the GRU revelations is that they seem to reflect an aggressive pushback after several years in which Putin (chiefly through the GRU) launched recklessly aggressive co Oct 16, 2018 Columnists [Edoardo Campanella] Is pensioner populism here to stay? By Korea Herald MORE 15 / 35414
