World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Is American democracy at risk? Two overarching complexes are closing in on it, threatening to strip the United States of its crown jewel- its very essence and the foundation it has been built upon since the Declaration of Independence. Americans have long taken pride in, and loudly championed,…

As Ahmad Al-Sharaa is inaugurated as Syria’s president, the country enters a new phase. Syria, which had endured years of coups—so much so that it was said Syrians could anticipate them before they happened due to the constant conflicts among military comrades—later transitioned into a Stalinist…

"Trump in Tehran!" This is the name of an operetta imagined by some American advocates of Realpolitik calling themselves Council on Foreign Relations rather than the sobriquet that G.K. Chesterton would have suggested: The Club of Queer Trades. The “Real” part of the English-German cliché is…

In a week of swift military shifts, the Sudanese Armed Forces have completed the liberation of Bahri city, except for a few pockets that are currently being cleared. At the same time, there is little left to do to recapture Khartoum, and the army is advancing towards the capital from several…

The "beneficial outcome" (or at least one of them) of the "harmful" “Al-Aqsa Flood," might be that it rid us of the idea that force is the solution to the Israel problem. Neither our many wars nor our resistance movements achieved their mission. As for the things that should be said, they…

Tech stocks tumbled. Giant companies like Meta and Nvidia faced a barrage of questions about their future. Tech executives took to social media to proclaim their fears. And it was all because of a little-known Chinese artificial intelligence start-up called DeepSeek. DeepSeek caused waves all…

What does it mean for Naeem Qassem, the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, to say that his party will not accept any justification for extending the deadline for Israel’s withdrawal in a televised speech... adding that Israel must withdraw “because the sixty days have passed... we do not accept any…

Advances in artificial intelligence by Chinese upstarts rattled US markets on Monday, with the threat of greater competition prompting a slide in shares of the biggest technology companies. The Chinese A.I. company DeepSeek has said it can match the abilities of cutting-edge chatbots while using…

In light of the immense human and material costs borne by the Palestinians, the ceasefire in Gaza has brought pressing questions back to the fore: Is resolving the problems of "the Palestinian cause" the only necessary gateway to peace and stability in the region? One objective of the October 7,…

It seems that the Syrian and Lebanese people’s way out of their ordeal is of two phases. The first, which is now nearing its end, is the phase of foreign (Iranian and, in Syria’s case, Russia as well) hegemony. If it is true that this hegemony had been reliant on domestic foundations and maintains…

The formation of a Lebanese government has been postponed another week. Various parties that had been eagerly awaiting a breakthrough are growing increasingly concerned. There were several indications suggesting that Lebanon would imminently exit the long tunnel of its crisis. This optimism…

"President Trump suggested that Jordan and Egypt should receive a large number of Gazans, either temporarily or permanently." From experience, when a tragic event in the lives of Palestinians is labeled as "temporary,” it often becomes permanent. Since the first Palestinian refugee camp was…