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Sun, February 5, 2023 | 18:27

Being single is getting more expensive than ever

It took 16 months to pay off my husband's student loans after we got married. It's a feat that he couldn't have accomplished as a single person. There wouldn't have been enough time in a day to work a full-time job and a side hustle, and handle the tedious tasks of laundry, cooking, cleaning and general adulthood without some level of additional support.

2022-11-08 14:06

Partnering with autocrats is risky business

The decades-old partnership between the United States and Saudi Arabia has just been put to the test. It failed with flying colors.

2022-11-07 14:43

Critics of US efforts have it wrong - Ukraine isn't Libya or Afghanistan

The U.S. and its allies have been engaging in a significant military intervention to help Ukraine resist Russia's brutal invasion for the past nine months. Not only have they given considerable financial, humanitarian and military resources - including sophisticated weapons systems - to Ukraine, but they also have embedded advisers with Ukrainian forces, allowed thousands of ...

2022-11-06 14:44

NASA studying UFOs won't prove alien life exists. They should do it anyway

NASA announced last month that its new panel to study Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) ― i.e. Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) ― was staffed up and ready to get working. The panel is impressive, including planetary scientists, astrophysicists, experts from the Federal Aviation Administration, data scientists and a celebrated astronaut. I have worked with a few of these s...

Shim Jae-yun | 2022-11-03 17:00

To tweet or not to tweet, now that Elon's the boss

To tweet or not to tweet, now that Elon's the boss

My plan was to dither. I find that if I plan to dither, the chances are high I'll follow through.Last week, while the world's richest man, Elon Musk, now Twitter's owner and overlord, was lying in wait to seize the company, the question before a noisy swath of the platform's 400 million users had become: Should I stay or should I go?

2022-11-03 14:11

Deadly crash, instructions in violence emphasize weaknesses in social media

As if on murderous cue, two new developments in Erie County have underscored the need to require social media companies to better police their virtual landscapes. Four teenagers died last week in a car that may have been stolen in response to an online challenge, while videos thought to be associated with the massacre of 10 innocent people at a Buffalo supermarket in May rema...

2022-11-02 14:04

Attack on Paul Pelosi should be condemned by everyone

Violence has no place in American politics. It does not belong at the homes of politicians or judges. It does not belong at congressional baseball practice. It does not belong on Capitol Hill as lawmakers certify the electoral count in a presidential election.

2022-11-01 14:59

We should just accept we're going to have a blah economy

This economy can't go on forever. GDP may still be growing, but it's at an anemic rate. And other indicators are piling up that suggest a recession is imminent: The yield curve is inverting, hiring and house price growth is slowing and Philadelphia may win the World Series.

2022-10-31 13:23

Japan and Australia are teaming up to balance a formidable China

As Xi Jinping edges out his rivals in the Chinese Communist Party, shakes up his leadership team and begins an unprecedented third term as China's leader, Beijing's military modernization continues apace. In a span of two decades, China has transformed itself from a relatively minor player on the world stage into a formidable geopolitical force that is willing and able to pur...

2022-10-30 13:52

Asian American Harvard grad affirmative action

The Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments in two cases at the end of the month and could decide the fate of affirmative action in higher education. In 2018, I testified before a federal judge in one of those cases, Students for Fair Admission v. Harvard, attesting to the importance of affirmative action in my life and why it is valuable to the Asian American community.

2022-10-27 16:56

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