World News Insights: Opinion Articles

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…

The recent statements that Robert Malley made regarding the nuclear deal negotiations with Iran should come as no surprise. Since Biden came to office, the current administration has had its sights on reviving the deal that Donald Trump had buried. However, as Malley has said himself, diplomacy…

The start was promising. In a WhatsApp group — under the peppy name “Get prepared” — the coach of Germany’s football team, Hansi Flick, delivered a stirring motivational message to the 26 players representing the country at the World Cup. Under a picture of a lamp, his colleague added: “May our…

Has the Islamic Republic in Iran fallen into a trap set by a prankster masquerading as a philosopher? A new book published in Tehran and praised by officials as “a major philosophical treatise” may suggest yes as an answer. The book by Islamic academic Jalal Sobhani, and titled “From The Day…

Is it true that fundamentalism dominates the climate created by the October 17 revolution, hindering the crystallization of “solutions” through the election of a president who could save the country and set it on the right track? Is it fair, at a time when collapses are destroying the lives of…

Why were Egypt and Syria at the bottom of the Turkish government’s reconciliation list? Turkey seems to be mending fences: the decade-long (and, in Syria’s case, bloody) conflict between the governments is apparently ending. The last breakthrough was initiated by Turkish President Erdogan,…

As protests in Iran continue, the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, recently elaborated on the strategy of “exporting the revolution,” saying that the “revolution does indeed now extend from Iran to Iraq, Syria, Lebanon” and that “the US was defeated in these three countries.” He also…