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Tue, April 24, 2018 | 21:47

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Big tech enters an era of uncertainty

Big tech continues to dominate the news and has become a major driver of U.S. stock markets. But the sector's dominant narrative has changed in the last few months. Amazement at the power of disruptive innovation to change not just what we do but also how we do it is now accompanied, if not tempered, by concerns about misuse and other unintended adverse consequences.

Guest Column | 2018-04-02 16:33

Is the press too free?

The poisoning of Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia at an Italian restaurant in Salisbury has driven an important story off the front pages of the British press.

Guest Column | 2018-04-01 16:48

Pelosi will walk a tightrope if Democrats win

The chances that Democrats will win a majority in the U.S. House this year are better than 50-50. The odds that Nancy Pelosi will become the next speaker are less than that.

Guest Column | 2018-04-01 16:47

Foreign bands experience questions on loyalty

Back in early 2000, the Korean expat music scene experienced huge growth in original rock acts performing across the peninsula.

Guest Column | 2018-03-31 10:59

Lessons from Iraq War after 15 years

It has been exactly 15 years since the start of one of the most fateful episodes of the early 21st century: the Iraq War. After the attacks of September 11, 2001, the French newspaper Le Monde famously declared, “Nous sommes tous Americains” (“We are all Americans”), and even predicted that Russia would become America's main ally. But U.S. President George W. Bush's invasion ...

Guest Column | 2018-03-30 17:35

Will you ever trust Facebook again?

Facebook is losing friends fast. Its favorability rating _ how well people like the social media giant _ has plunged 28 percentage points in the last five months, according to a new Axios-commissioned poll.

Guest Column | 2018-03-30 17:32

Dark matter of trade

If you are flying a plane, it is useful to know how to keep it level. To do so, you must be able to read the instruments. If the plane is flying level, but you think it is heading down, you may pull back on the yoke and put the plane into a stall. This is what may be happening today with U.S. trade policy.

Guest Column | 2018-03-29 17:09

Listen to students who march for their lives

If you had any doubt about the power of young people to change the world, consider the turnout for Saturday's March for Our Lives events in Washington, D.C., Parkland, and cities across the globe.

Guest Column | 2018-03-29 17:08

Threat to Western democracy starts at home

Four days before the United Kingdom's 1924 election, the Daily Mail published a letter purportedly written by Comintern Chairman Grigori Zinoviev, calling on British Communists to mobilize “sympathetic forces” in the Labour Party to support an Anglo-Soviet treaty and to encourage “agitation-propaganda” in the armed forces.

Guest Column | 2018-03-28 16:53

NRA's blunders fueled the gun-safety marches

You had to be there. As Americans took to the streets Saturday, defying a political order that, in Washington and many state capitals, has allowed extremists to write gun laws, the bodies _ of both the dead and the living who marched in their honor _ mattered a lot.

Guest Column | 2018-03-28 16:50

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