World News Insights: Opinion Articles

If Trump stumbles on airplane stairs, it might be enough for him to recalculate his profit and loss, with more than three eventful months left until the US presidential elections. Trump’s remarkable bravery on stage, after his ear was grazed by a bullet, was a pivotal moment in his life. This…

Regardless of who wins the US presidential election after President Joe Biden's exit from the race, an entirely new era will begin once it ends. Despite their divergent backgrounds, both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, for different reasons, are atypical candidates. Harris is far more…

In Lebanon, as well as Syria and the occupied Palestinian territories, we find many different assumptions and even more predictions. The facts are strange, but developments on the ground are even stranger. The Lebanese are languishing under their economic and cost of living crises. Amid a vacuum…

Electrification is often presented as oil’s great rival. If we are to believe some of the myths perpetuated about the energy industry, electrification and oil operate in silos, sealed off from one another, as they engage in an existential struggle. ‘There can be only one winner,’ mythmakers tell us…

What went on in Benjamin Netanyahu’s head on his flight back from the United States? The conclusions he reached in the US will impact the entire region, including Lebanon and Gaza. Did he conclude that he mended his ties with the US after holding talks with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump…

For decades, "isolationists" in Lebanon were portrayed as a "bunch" and a "clique" whose power was attributed to “its collaboration with colonialism." The term "isolation" was itself meant to signal that they were marginal and insignificant. This "clique" was isolated from a sweeping mass movement…

Most of the news that concerns us and our region is the subject of sharp political bickering or unprecedented disinformation campaigns. This bickering is tied to the elections in the United States and political campaigns in Israel. Israel, Hamas, Iran, and Hezbollah have been spreading…

Iranian President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian seems to have a more harmonious relationship with the ruling establishment than his reformist and moderate predecessors, even better than former President Sheikh Hassan Rouhani and his team, who came under a lot of pressures, especially in foreign policy. …

Barring another surprise “event” the coming US presidential showdown is likely to be a duel between former President Donald Trump and Vice-President Kamala Harris. That duel, if it goes through, will include a number of new features. Harris is only the second woman to reach the last round in a US…

Nothing illustrates the crisis that Hezbollah finds itself in better than the series of speeches that its secretary-general gave during Ashoura. His voice became so long that his vocal cords were impacted. Nasrallah, who had in the past threatened suffering, destruction, and doom if the Israeli…

On August 26, 1789, exactly 42 days after the day Bastille had been stormed, which was considered the day the French Revolution won, the Constituent Assembly in Paris issued what came to be known as the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. Inspired by the values of the Enlightenment…

If American movies and series are associated with thrills and excitement, American presidential elections are no less thrilling and exciting. The difference between the two is that the thrills of the former are fictional, created by the suspense of stories. The thrills of American elections, on the…