World News Insights: Opinion Articles

What if one of us were to come across an assessment of life and the world that concludes with a series of commandments and recommendations for how to deal with them that tells us, among other things: This world we live in is an extremely miserable and melancholic place. As for life - every life …

Attendance at the world’s biggest conference of economists was down by half this year, and that had some attendees worrying that the annual conclave was at risk of unraveling like a knitted sweater. People who were disappointed not to see their friends at this year’s Allied Social Science…

Whether out of Anglophilia, nostalgia, masochism, traditionalism or just a particular strain of fealty to the rich and famous, America’s quixotic devotion to the British monarchy remains strong. What, then, explains America’s particular crush on the semiroyal Sussexes? Harry and Meghan haven’t…

It would be no exaggeration to claim that the foundations of the Iranian regime are disintegrating and breaking apart. Its leaders are trying to prevent the publicization of this fact in whatever way they can. The decision to execute Alireza Akbari, the defense minister’s top advisor who had been…

On Monday January 9, the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader spoke to a group of supporters of the regime. He repeated his previous condemnations of demonstrators and affirmed the punishments meted out to them by the Judiciary. These punishments have led to hurried death sentences for some…

These are tough days for the “Supreme Guide” of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.   For the first time in more than three decades he seems unable to do a Houdini number by getting out of a tight spot that events and his own mistakes have placed him in.   For more than three decades…

The Mullah regime in Iran is facing a difficult conundrum. The Islamic Republic, which claims to support Islam and Muslims across the globe and to lead the Shiites in their struggle in preparation for the return of the disappeared Imam, the awaited Mahdi, is allied with a Christian country, Armenia…

Republicans have been hounding President Biden for more than a year to travel to the southern border and see the situation there with his own eyes. “I guess I should go down,” he conceded in a town hall meeting with CNN in October 2021, but he explained that he had been too busy to make the trip…

Was Niccolo Machiavelli ethical?   The Italian philosopher has long been reduced to the phrase “the end justifies the means,” which implies an opportunism that is disengaged from ethics.    Nevertheless, this reductionism did not deter some from replying “yes:” he was ethical. Their implicit…

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan recently said that Iran’s weapons “are being used to kill civilians in Ukraine and to try to plunge cities into cold and darkness, which from our point of view puts Iran in a place where it could potentially be contributing to widespread war crimes.”   …

It was the end of the workday on Friday, Dec. 9, 2022. I was wrapping up a Zoom call when my phone started to vibrate with calls, text messages and emails. Gabriele Marcotti, an ESPN journalist, was trying to reach me from Qatar, where he was covering the World Cup alongside my husband, Grant Wahl…

As the war in Ukraine dominates the international stage, the Balkans is also marred by high tension. Balkan ghosts are very much present as seen in the recent flare ups in Kosovo and elsewhere. The 1990s was marked by wars between Serbs and other ethnic/religious groups (Bosniacs, Croats,…