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    January 31, 2025

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    January 24, 2025

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    December 27, 2024

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    December 13, 2024

  • A higher minimum wage doesn’t have to harm jobs

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    December 6, 2024

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    “America is not the world’s policeman,” then U.S. President Barack Obama said in 2013. Now, as th...

    November 29, 2024

  • Time to break away from defense-only policy

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    November 22, 2024

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    This autumn, while the summer heat lingered, the political sphere of the nation began to move swi...

    November 8, 2024

  • Chance to Boost Economic Metabolism Finally Here

    Let’s compare two economies with inflation rates of 2% and 0%. Which one is more vibrant? This is...

    October 11, 2024

  • Declining Birth Rates: A Catastrophe? Or a Blessing?

    Birth rates are notoriously declining in Japan, China, Korea, and Europe. In fact, they are too l...

    September 20, 2024

  • ‘Doublethink’ Tends to Give Rise to Dictators

    Authoritarian tyranny and protectionist trade policy are spreading throughout the world. This tre...

    September 13, 2024

  • To Meet Everyone’s Basic Needs, We’ll Have to Conserve

    By Hiroshi Watanabe / Special to The Yomiuri Shimbun [posttime] JST, [postdate] People need foo...

    September 6, 2024

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    U.S. politics has resembled a roller-coaster over the past two months, as Americans prepare to go...

    August 30, 2024

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