World News Insights: Opinion Articles

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…

Among the few virtues of Iran’s rulers is that they are fond of explaining matters that may seem contentious or obscure, clarifying issues that could be interpreted in contradictory ways. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei made a contribution in this regard through a statement he gave a few…

The Turkish army may be preparing for a new round of land operations in the north of Syria. The Minister of Defense and his General Staff are seen in photographs in full camouflage gear either in the operation room in Ankara or along the Syrian border. Türkiye is concerned that YPG (Syrian…

Something exciting is happening in the World Cup: The five teams representing Africa in the tournament have African coaches. This may not sound exceptional. Gregg Berhalter, who coaches the United States team, is a New Jersey native; Hansi Flick, who manages the German squad, hails from…

We should be grateful to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei for admitting to the role that his country plays in the Arab world. In a series of tweets from his English account, Khamenei put forward his vision of a Western conspiracy that Iran had foiled. “From the Westerners’ point of view,…

Shoppers on both sides of the Atlantic are under intense pressure from inflation. So far, sales of everything from luxury goods to laundry detergent have been better than expected. But cracks are already emerging in demand — and these are set to intensify as winter draws in. There’s no…

When FIFA announced in 2010 that Qatar would host this year’s World Cup, football fans and sports pundits were left scratching their heads. Qatar, it was said again and again, had no real business hosting the tournament: The weather is too hot; there aren’t enough stadiums; the country doesn’t even…

The World Cup is a sporty and stubborn human dream. In 1930, in Uruguay, this international event was born and drove the residents of the planet into a kind of addiction. Every four years, the ninety-year-old celebration rejuvenates and doubles its sparkle. It resisted the hurricanes that swept the…

When Lewis Carroll’s Alice says she can't believe impossible things, the White Queen gives the smart politician’s reply: “I daresay you haven't had much practice. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” Rishi Sunak, the UK’s pragmatic new prime minister,…

What we are witnessing today of attempts to impose “values” and ideas on the whole world and to involve politics in sports is nothing but racism, not freedom, as some claim to be the case. It reaches the point of barbarism in various fields. What is known and simple is that your freedom ends…

In recent years, a swelling chorus of Americans has grown critical of the nation’s billionaires. But in the extraordinary week gone by, that chorus was drowned out by a far louder and more urgent case against them. It was made by the billionaires themselves. One after another, four of our best…

There is a theory that, other than Uruguay at the inaugural tournament in 1930, every World Cup winner has been in some way influenced by the wave of great Hungarian coaches scattered across the globe in the aftermath of World War I. It’s not entirely tenuous, even if some are skeptical. Nobody,…