World News Insights: Opinion Articles

It was almost a year ago when Emmanuel Macron won re-election as France’s president for a second and final term. In doing so he broke a curse that had kicked his two immediate predecessors out of the Elysees Palace, providing an occasion for celebration. The Marseillaise was played and the…

Some informed sources in Europe have claimed that the summit held by Russia and China in Moscow on the twentieth this month had initially been scheduled for Beijing. They claim that Russian President Vladimir Putin was supposed to head a delegation of ministers and economic figures on a trip to…

The internal divisions we now see manifest themselves in Israel have significant multifaceted implications for the region. It is these implications that concern us here, and not the domestic developments in Israel that began with Prime Minister Netanyahu and his extremist allies forming a…

We often use the term “surreal” to describe the exotic and strange. This characterization could be correct, but Surrealism is certainly more than that. The early origins of Surrealism, which “officially” began as a movement in 1924 in Paris, can be traced back to the Dada movement. Indeed, the…

Our economy today has been described variously as “weird,” “really weird” and “very, very weird.” Weird because this is a yo-yo economy where gas prices shot up to more than $5 a gallon and then settled back down. The inflation rate for used cars dropped, then accelerated at a 40 percent rate…

Walking is the worst-kept secret I know. Its rewards hide under every step. Perhaps because we take walking so much for granted, many of us often ignore its ample gifts. In truth, I doubt I would walk often or very far if its sole benefit was physical, despite the abundant proof of its value in…

Daniel Ellsberg, famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers and his activism against nuclear weapons, announced recently that he has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Mr. Ellsberg, now 91, copied the military’s secret 7,000-page history of the Vietnam War and gave it to The New York Times and The…

At the heart of both the Middle East and Europe, there have recently been several prominent several cases in point and turning points that underline the cold and hot war between Washington and China. The United States found itself on the margins as regional rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran…

For the first time in American history, a hotly anticipated indictment of a former American president may actually be handed up. Manhattan’s district attorney, Alvin L. Bragg, seems set to bring charges related to Donald Trump’s allegedly paying off a porn star named Stormy Daniels to cover up…

The First Amendment has so far played only a bit part in the debate about banning TikTok. This may change. If the US government tries to shut down this major communications platform, the First Amendment will certainly have something to say about it. Perhaps the reason First Amendment rights…

The world is living on Kremlin time. The decisions of its master leave their mark on the security of the planet and the prices of energy and grain. Experts agree that another year of the Russian war on Ukraine will be catastrophic to the world. Vladimir Putin’s announcement that he was…

So I guess we’re in a new cold war. Leaders of both parties have become China hawks. There are rumblings of war over Taiwan. Xi Jinping vows to dominate the century. I can’t help wondering: What will this cold war look like? Will this one transform American society the way the last one did? …