Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan waves to the crowd during his inauguration ceremony at Eagle square in Abuja May 29, 2011. (Akintunde Akinleye/Courtesy Reuters) Last week, Nigerian president Go…

The Korea Economic Institute of America co-hosted an event with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the Asan Institute for Policy Studies yesterday at which I presented my analysis of Chicago C…

The best immigration policy is one that helps developing countries hold on to their best.

The coronavirus pandemic dominating global headlines and individual anxiety lists powerfully illustrates the importance, and fragility, of trust in public officials. Public health depends upon participation, and when citizens mistrust those asking them to make sacrifices or take unusual steps to protect the greater good, even the most thoughtful interventions are doomed to fail.

The conventional wisdom is that there could be nothing more dangerous to North Korea’s current leadership than the penetration of information into North Korea from the outside world.  A new empirical…