While pro- and anti-Trumpers pondered the implications of a precedent shattered, the brouhaha compelled a Korean-American academic to pose this question on social media: Has the student - South Korea overtaken the master - the U.S. - in the practice of democracy?
Thirty signatory organizations have sent a letter to South Korea's National Assembly urging the body to immediately pass a comprehensive anti-discrimination law, which would meaningfully address pervasive discrimination against marginalized groups in the country.
In a recent column, I noted that the only surefire way to prove or disprove allegations of wrongdoing is to subject the issue to the test of an adversarial criminal trial, complete with all due process rights available to the accused, but fortified with admissible fact-based evidence that is fully transparent to the public.
Many, many allegations of criminal wrongdoing have been made against President Donald Trump (aka “Individual No. 1); is it not time now to “put up or shut up”?
Whether this will happen in America is a very real question. On one hand, the nation and President-elect Joe Biden desperately need to unify as we face the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, calls for ending racial disparities, the scourge of misinformation and the need to heal our divisions.