World News Insights: Opinion Articles

“The people want the downfall of the regime!” Those were the words that hundreds of protesters chanted in Al-Mashnaqa Square in front of the provincial headquarters of the Syrian Baath Party in Suwayda on November 4. This was far from the first time protests had erupted in Suwayda, the Druze…

China’s modern history was marred by a dark and painful era of extremism like the “Sahwa” (Awakening) movement to which we bore witness. In China, too, it was given a deceitful name: the "Cultural Revolution". The difference lies in that China ridded itself of this ideology before we did. The…

It seems that the Iranian regime is delighted that the people of the world are distracted by the World Cup. Mass protests have shaken the regime, which had not been expecting them. It is all because Iran is a theocracy that terrorizes its people in the name of religion. They flog women in the…

Apple is the world’s most valuable company. Is it also a monopolist? To answer that question to your own satisfaction, I suggest that you watch a gripping reality show on YouTube. It’s an hour-and-a-quarter courtroom hearing from Nov. 14 in the case of Epic Games v. Apple. It features brilliant…

The developments we see unfolding today affirm that the mullah regime has turned Iran into a rogue state. They also demonstrate that the approach that the West and the US have followed in dealing with Iran has failed, particularly since the failed 2015 nuclear agreement signed by former President…

In the mid-fifties, Egypt and Syria broke what had been known as the “West’s monopoly on arms supply” in the Middle East. It was a consequential and dangerous decision taken for many reasons: the new military and security regimes wanted to distinguish themselves from the previous traditional…

Americans received their first Covid-19 vaccine doses in December 2020, which means we are now approaching the beginning of the third year of the pandemic’s vaccine phase. And yet hundreds of Americans are still dying each day. Who are they? The data offers a straightforward answer: older adults. …

The American mind thinks in binaries. After the Cold War had split the globe between the communist and free worlds, George W. Bush split the world into two “camps:” an axis of good and an axis of evil. Today, President Joe Biden, per the 2022 US Department of Homeland Security Strategy, has…

Britain is languishing, and the signs are everywhere. Inflation is in double digits, and the recession — the worst of all Group of 7 countries — is expected to last deep into 2024. The National Health Service is on life support, public transport is sputtering, and post-Brexit worker shortages…

The parents of a 2-year-old girl write that their daughter “could die within the next year” because a genetic mutation is causing her heart to fail. “Time is quickly running out for me,” writes a man in his mid-30s whose DNA harbors a genetic mistake certain to destroy his brain within a matter…

Over the past six years, my profession has allowed me to bear witness to significant handshakes in Saudi Arabia. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s handshake with US President Donald Trump that was followed by the American-Gulf and American-Arab summits. Mohammed bin Salman’s handshake with…

Although I hesitate to use the hackneyed expression “It seems like just yesterday,” it ‌does feel that way as I prepare to leave the National Institutes of Health ‌after over five decades. As I look back at my career, I see lessons that may be useful to the next generation of scientists and health…