World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Latest in a series of developments in the Middle East, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi travelled to Syria on Wednesday at the head of a delegation. Syria seems to now have an opportunity to return to the Arab League, rebuilding its identity as an Arab society. For years, this country has been a…

Few in Sudan could be considered lucky so far. The luckiest are the foreign passport holders who managed to arrive safely at Wadi Seidna Airfield (40 km north of the capital Khartoum) and were shipped off to European capitals in massive military cargo planes. The images of huge planes carrying…

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…