World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The developments known as the Arab Spring brought lack of stability, security and violence to a number of Arab countries and led to the fall of governments in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria. It prepared grounds for revival of the extremist organization Muslim Brotherhood and its coming to…

There is no harm in starting with a confession: no writer has perplexed me the way Sigmund Freud has. Every time I read him, I felt like he is creeping into a dark room in my soul that only I had ever entered. It was difficult for someone who felt this way to swallow the Marxist critiques of the…

Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT is already threatening to upend how we draft everyday communications like emails, college essays and myriad other forms of writing. Created by the company OpenAI, ChatGPT is a chatbot that can automatically respond to written prompts in a manner that is sometimes…

The way most Americans talk about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., more than 50 years after his assassination, you might think that he gave exactly one speech — on Aug. 28, 1963, in Washington — and spoke exclusively about racial harmony and his oft-mentioned dream of integration. But King,…

Like a cup reader, Khomeini predicted, during a 1978 interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, that “in the future, Iranian society will be magical and free of any form of repression, brutality, and force.” And an “Islamic” revolution against the Shah broke out in 1979. Since then, Iran…

Donald J. Trump shocked the world in 2016 by winning the White House and becoming the first president in US history with no prior military or government experience. He upended the fiction of electability pushed by pundits, the news media and many political consultants, which arrogantly projects who…

When I received my Ph.D. in history in 2013, I didn’t expect that within a decade fights over history — and historiography, even if few people use that word — would become front-page news. But over the last few years that is precisely what has happened: Just look at the recent debates over America…

Don’t bemoan your sorrows at the doors of the United Nations. The building is gloomy and its prestige is rubble. It can no longer offer guarantees or solutions. In the current century, the UN suffered two severe blows. Here we are in the jungle. If you are not a wolf, the wolves will eat you. …

There is much we still do not know about President Biden’s stash of secret documents, but one thing is painfully obvious: The system for protecting secrets vital to national security has spun out of control. The question is why. No one should be surprised that documents marked secret keep…

On Thursday, an important statement was issued by Egypt and Saudi Arabia after the meeting of the follow-up and political consultation committee, which is headed by Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry. Several important points…

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…