World News Insights: Opinion Articles

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…

The Saudi-Iranian agreement to reestablish diplomatic ties and avoid interfering in the domestic affairs of regional states, heralded the cooling of tensions and conflicts in the Middle East, creating an air of optimism. However, it seems that the region continues to emit destabilizing vibrations. …

Some cities have a way of delivering messages. They prompt the visiting journalist to wait before believing everything that they hear from decision-makers and their opponents - if they exist. It is as if it is announcing that its real date is always being postponed - its date with a normal state,…

Over the last three decades, Americans have chosen presidents who felt their pain and channeled their anger, who shattered historical barriers or seemed like enjoyable beer-drinking companions. But if voters often desire leaders who reflect themselves and their struggles, President Biden’s…

The title is not a joke. The “father of nations” made a contribution to philology as well. Indeed, totalitarian leaders who come from parties founded on an idea are always called on to give the impression that they are well-read and well-thought (and sometimes they really are.) This fact deprives…

He had vowed to clean up Britain’s government after months of scandal and disarray under his predecessors. But on Friday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak lost another top minister, as his deputy, Dominic Raab, resigned following an investigation that found he had bullied subordinates. Mr. Raab, one…