The Moon Jae-in administration has clear economic policy guidelines: income-led growth, innovation-pulled growth and fair economy. What is also clear is that the guidelines are not working. Recent economic developments point to the likelihood that the economy could become an Achilles’ heel of the otherwise robust, popular government. Indeed, there are red flags in the Korean economy, which forced the Bank of Korea to revise down its growth forecast for this year to 2.9 percent from 3 percent las

For as long as there has been a Capitol Hill, a secret list has circulated informally among staffers there bearing the names of the most difficult members of Congress to work for. Any staffer today who has worked on the Hill long enough is familiar with the list and the names that perennially appear there. They are exchanged in hushed whispers over coffee in Rayburn Cafeteria, they bounce and skip along backbenches during committee hearings, and they are discreetly shuffled across table tops in

For once, it seems like President Donald Trump isn’t interested in winning. Everything is in place for a great NATO summit -- defense spending is up, deterrence in Eastern Europe is strong and a united alliance will set a firm tone for Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Everything seems set. Everything, of course, except that last part.　 While Trump could use a successful NATO summit to hold Putin to account for his misdeeds in Ukraine and US election interference, he appears

Ever since the November 2016 US presidential election highlighted the vulnerability of digital channels to purveyors of “fake news,” the debate over how to counter disinformation has not gone away. We have come a long way in the eight months since Facebook, Google, and Twitter executives appeared before Congress to answer questions about how Russian sources exploited their platforms to influence the election. But if there is one thing that the search for solutions has made clear, it is that ther