World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Commenting on my previous article, “The Lesson from Sudan,” someone intelligent asked me: Could Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, Sudan’s Army Commander, become Field Marshal Siwar al-Dahab 2.0? And then he added: the Siwar al-Dahab who was a man of action, not an idealist, and Burhan…

When the Arab countries that had been colonized gained their independence, they found themselves faced with two options: - Either accept the parliaments and administrations, with all of their defects and shortcomings, that had been established by their former colonizers and then try to bring…

On a visit in February to the site of the Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown in Japan, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York did something refreshing: She discussed radiation exposure and nuclear waste without fanning fear. The radiation she got from her visit — about two chest X-rays’…

America’s secrets aren’t sufficiently protected. The recent posting of apparently classified government documents to internet chat rooms allegedly by the Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira reminds us that intelligence reporting is subject to a dilemma: Either we clamp down to prevent leaks, or we…

Why did Trump refuse to accept the results of the presidential election? The answer is obvious: for Trump’s sake. Trump is not a gracious loser. The man had forged an image of himself as a winner, boasting about everything from his wealth to his fame, popularity with women, physical attributes…

With Donald J. Trump indicted, Ron DeSantis faltering in the polls and Democrats still basking in their strong midterm showing, some might feel that President Biden’s re-election is all but a done deal. But as Biden announced his re-election bid Tuesday, it’s worth noting something about the early…

Bluesky, a Jack Dorsey–funded, currently invite-only Twitter clone, has been brimming with frenetic energy this week. Shitposters, sex workers, technologists, journalists, and others have flooded the new service, all of them trying to reimagine Twitter from scratch. With a looseness not seen since…

In the Lebanese crisis, or what some call the Lebanese question, the malfunction does not end with the failure to develop solutions. Rather, it goes further, as it is almost impossible to understand the actions of the political forces in the country, especially those opposed to Hezbollah and the…

From Ukraine to Sudan, the world is ill and in need of a doctor who cannot be found. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy weighs his option and reaches the same conclusion. Fate has tasked him with a semi-suicidal mission. He never thought that he would turn into a general in a war that is…

Earlier this week, Chinese President Xi Jinping called up Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time since Russia invaded last year. Is Xi’s peace overture to Ukraine for real? He has several reasons for sincerely hoping that the war between Ukraine and Russia ends soon. Is his…

Few thinkers have had their ideas explained as reductively as Adam Smith: they have been boiled down to one or two phrases from his book “The Wealth of Nations” (which is two books). His 1959 book “The Theory of Moral Sentiments,” which was published 17 years before “The Wealth of Nations”, is…

Three weeks into the war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, it is clear that Sudan is the only loser, as there are no real signs of an imminent political solution to resolve this crisis, in which five armistice agreements have already been broken. Despite the scale of the…