World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Three hundred years ago, leaders of three British colonies and representatives of the Indigenous nations known as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy gathered in Albany, N.Y., to sign what is the oldest continuously recognized treaty in colonial American and United States law. They sought to resolve a…

The problem is not Mahsa Amini, and the solution is not abolishing the morality police that killed her. The regime currently in power in Iran has faced several difficult economic and political challenges since Khomeini’s coup in the seventies. However, it overcame them. Its principal institutions…

Iran’s decision to abolish the so-called morality police - which we have no way of verifying - and a few state agencies reviewing the mandatory veil law represent a hopeless attempt similar to what many other regimes have taken before falling. It is too little too late. Neither the scale of…

I read an article recently about a 100-year-old doctor named Howard Tucker who is still practicing medicine in Cleveland. Dr. Tucker began working as a neurologist in 1947, when Harry Truman was president. Though he is obviously an extreme example, Dr. Tucker represents an important…

The developments in Iran concern the region and the world. Yes, changing the regime concerns the Iranian people alone, but Iran is involved in international tensions and immersed in several maps in the region. The people of the region want to see an Iranian state that respects recognized…

In March, as President Biden was facing pressure to intensify US involvement in Ukraine, he responded by invoking the specter of World War III four times in one day. “Direct conflict between NATO and Russia is World War III,” he said, “something we must strive to prevent.” He underscored the…

My Twitter archive is over 6.4 gigabytes — more than 161,000 tweets over 15 years. It’s enough writing to fill about 10 books. What was going on when I tweeted, “Wait, which one?” in October 2008? I’ll never know. I didn’t download the archive because I thought Twitter was going to die. Even my…

Over 450,000 Jewish settlers scattered across 130 settlements live in the West Bank. This figure does not include the 220,000 settlers in East Jerusalem or the 20,000 in the Syrian Golan Heights.  These settlers remind us of a dark, depressing bygone past when force had a free hand to apply…

Iran recently issued two ridiculous statements demonstrating that its regime is a fantasy and an illusion. The first was made by the commander of the Navy of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, in fact he is better a “pirate”, Alireza Tangsiri. The “pirate” says: “We warn the Zionists and the…

Now that the dust of the climate battles in Sharm El-Sheikh has settled, it is time for a level-headed assessment that helps draw lessons and morals. It is also necessary to rectify some assumptions adamantly describing the summit as a failure, based on an elusive set of unrealistic goals.    No…

Updated with data released on Thursday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, a chart shows that the US personal saving rate dropped in October to 2.3 percent. How low is that? Since 1959 there has been only one month when the saving rate was that low or lower. (That was July 2005, when the housing…

It’s hard not to reach a conclusion after contemplating England’s imposing $1.3 billion-plus roster. It’s the richest in the competition, roughly 80 times as valuable as the home team, Qatar, at the very bottom of the pile. If England’s scoring abilities are proportional to the money its players…