World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The terror attack which took place in a pedestrian street in Istanbul was a fearful reminder of past such attacks all over Europe and many parts of the world a few years ago. Turkish police detained a woman who is said to have placed the bag which contained TNT explosives. Her accomplices were…

This century’s worst-case climate scenario isn’t global warming of 4 or even 5 degrees Celsius. It’s a nuclear winter that would trigger global cooling up to 12 or 13 degrees C. That would happen within weeks of the start of a nuclear war, as smoke from burning cities blotted out the sun. The…

President Biden met President Xi Jinping in Indonesia last week and told the world that there need not be a new cold war. Is he serious? Any observer watching world politics now understands that America is trying to reduce Chinese growth and Chinese power. At the same time, the Chinese…

President Joe Biden performed better than expected in the Midterms, which pollsters had predicted Democrats would lose. Despite the failures of his first two years in office, with the country in an economic downturn, inflation rising to 8 percent, and fuel prices increasing. And the economy…

The fiercest general is called time. It is the master of open battle. It tests individuals, peoples and nations and smiles tauntingly at the defeated. It is a fierce warrior that does not rest. It closes one chapter and moves on quickly to the next. This enemy is a gamble to those who have the…

There are well over 100 currencies, from the Angolan kwanza and the Bhutan ngultrum to the Uzbekistan sum and the Vanuatu vatu. Is that the right number for the global economy? Not really. A multiplicity of unpredictably fluctuating currencies discourages trade and investment by injecting…

In September, scientists at the University of Hong Kong published the most complete census of ants ever assembled. The numbers are so big as to seem made up. The study estimated that there are at least 20 quadrillion — that is, 20,000,000,000,000,000 — ants on Earth. That’s about 2.5 million ants…

It seems as if the world is encountering a “perfect storm” of simultaneous crises: The coronavirus pandemic is approaching the end of its third year; the war in Ukraine is threatening to go nuclear; extreme climate events are afflicting North America, Europe, Asia and Africa; and inflation is…

A few days ago, the British daily “The Guardian” published a cautionary column by Gordon Brown, who was UK prime minister from 2007 to 2010 and is currently a WHO ambassador for global health financing.    The column laments the reasons for the current state of the world. International…

As Iran’s protests enter their fifth week, they are taking an unprecedented course. The house of the man who led the revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, has been burned, and protests have broken out in most of the country’s cities and villages. This includes Khomeyn, Khomeini’s hometown. We have also…

By the time the climate summit in Sharm El-Sheikh concludes, the outcomes will be classified under metaphors, ranging from failure and weakness to glorious victory. This is often due to unrealistic perceived goals or excessive hostility on one hand, and passionate national pride on the other. Some…

This month, I chose to leave my position leading trust and safety at Elon Musk’s Twitter. My teams were responsible for drafting Twitter’s rules and figuring out how to apply them consistently to hundreds of millions of tweets per day. In my more than seven years at the company, we exposed…