World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Deepening the political turmoil that has engulfed Britain’s public broadcaster, the chairman of the BBC, Richard Sharp, resigned on Friday after an investigation concluded that he failed to disclose his involvement in arranging a nearly $1 million loan for Boris Johnson while he was prime minister…

The solution to addressing the problem of depletion and exhausting natural resources has traditionally been to search for new resources, by adopting innovative technological methods. But it turns out that limiting the solution to increasing production in order to meet increased consumption puts the…

In the four years since President Donald J. Trump’s leader-to-leader diplomacy with Kim Jong-un of North Korea collapsed after a failed meeting in Hanoi, the North’s arsenal of nuclear weapons has expanded so fast that American and South Korean officials admit they have stopped trying to keep a…

As I watch the scenes in Sudan, of foreigners trying to leave Khartoum any which way they can, I think of the millions of Sudanese left behind. Not lucky enough to have a foreign passport that would allow them to escape this hell, they are stuck in the crossfires of the war of “brothers,” who are…

It was supposed to be a routine remake of scores of reportages offered by the official TV each year. The formula used is simple: A concert hall filled with a handpicked audience of carefully screened audience chanting “God is Great, Hail to Supreme Leader!” Then the “Supreme Leader” enters,…

Hundreds have been killed and thousands have been wounded during the recent clashes in Sudan. Many countries, including the United States, have evacuated their diplomatic staff and closed their embassies, which many interpreted as implying that they believe this will be an open-ended war and that…

Last fall, eight months into the new world disorder created by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the University of Cambridge’s Bennett Institute for Public Policy produced a long report on trends in global public opinion before and after the outbreak of the war. Not surprisingly, the data…

In an interview he gave to “60 Minutes” on CBS, Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that the rise of artificial intelligence presents new challenges that demand ethical and social solutions. He thus called on philosophers to get involved in developing them instead of leaving it to businessmen and…

Two theories of how to realize change have prevailed in our region over the past few decades. One says: Forget about political authority and focus on changing society; make it more enlightened, rational, secular, and modern. Their rationale is that changing society and its values will inevitably…

President Biden is set to ask for another four years in office as soon as Tuesday, four years after declaring his 2020 candidacy in the hopes of preventing President Donald J. Trump from “forever and fundamentally” altering the character of the United States. People close to Mr. Biden expect him…

When former President Donald J. Trump called Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, “smart” in the days after Mr. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the remark caused a brief media stir and nothing more — another off-the-cuff, provocative statement from someone who is famous for such comments. But…

Joe Biden’s path to renomination by the Democratic Party, a journey reportedly likely to begin officially sometime next week, will represent a triumph of one seeming implausibility over another. From the beginning of Biden’s presidency, every serious conversation about his re-election has…