World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Back in the early ’90s it would have been hard to imagine a time would come when people would long for double denim, the glumness of grunge and Ethan Hawke’s patchy “Reality Bites” facial hair. Yet more unfathomable: that there would be any affection for anything about that era’s nascent political…

The author of this article is not known for being friendly to the “Arab Socialist Baath Party.” He supports neither its ideas nor its actions, the regimes it has established nor its opposition to already existing regimes, its Syrian version nor its Iraqi version, its civilians nor its soldiers, its…

It is tempting to view Boris Johnson’s sudden resignation from Britain’s Parliament on Friday evening as merely another twist in a serpentine career, a tactical retreat rather than a political epitaph. After all, the language in his 1,035-word statement was defiant and aggrieved, peppered with…

Abraham Lincoln went down in American history as the most popular and respected president, yet also the least attractive, described by writer and professor Michael Phillips-Anderson as a "tall and lanky figure"..."with a wry smile." You won't believe how Lincoln compensated for those shortcomings…

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s visit to Saudi Arabia, where he held meetings with high-ranking officials and made several pledges, is another promising indication that Washington has reconsidered its policy choices. Indeed, coming just a few weeks after President Joe Biden’s National…

The strong Russia is in a crisis. It is like a strong boxer who has chosen to fight a smaller one and yet, cannot deal the knockout blow. The West is also in a crisis. Russia’s victory would be too much for it to bear, while Russia’s defeat will be too much for the world to bear. A defeated…

When Donald Trump was elected president, many thought of the historian Richard Hofstadter’s book, “Anti-Intellectualism in American Life” (1963), for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize. His immense book seemed to be a belated explanation of the McCarthyism of the 1950s and Eisenhower’s…

After seven months of a newly appointed administration, Iraq's slow yet steady progress is visible to friends and foes alike. The days in which political crises were solved by escalating into larger crises are behind, replaced by regular announcements of signings mega projects, such as the…

American officials who have visited Riyadh over the past eight months have prioritized interests over making dictates. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a three-day visit to Saudi Arabia last week where he met with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for an hour and 40 minutes. He also met…

The conference on Climate Action, hosted in Kuwait by the Arab Fund for Economic & Social Development (AFESD), was a milestone in Arab environmental action; going beyond recognizing and describing the problem, to proposing practical solutions, with the participation of major Arab development…

Hardly a week goes by without news of exciting developments in Saudi Arabia. This week, sports news took the spotlight with the announcement of a new strategy for the development of the Saudi sports market. Under the strategy, sports clubs will become companies. The Public Investment Fund (PIF)…

From the Lebanese local agreement, represented by the nomination of former Finance Minister Jihad Azour to the post of President of the Republic by the majority of the opposition forces and some of the ruling parties, to the appointment of the Elysée of former French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le…