World News Insights: Opinion Articles

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…

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,…