World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never. That was Winston Churchill’s famous mantra. Liz Truss, another Tory prime minister trying to lead a battered Britain, couldn’t follow that bulldog advice. She wilted fast. She lasted only 44 days before resigning. The Storm didn’t even have time…

Democrats had a golden summer. The Dobbs decision led to a surge of voter registrations. Voters handed Democrats a string of sweet victories in unlikely places — Alaska and Kansas, and good news in upstate New York. The momentum didn’t survive the fall. Over the past month or so, there’s been…

On Tuesday Rishi Sunak became the third Conservative prime minister of Britain this year, elevated to the nation’s highest political office with the endorsement of fewer than 200 lawmakers — an easy hurdle if one compares it to the tens of millions of voters who would need convincing in a general…

Only a few days separate us from that decisive day for the Israeli political elite. If no surprises are seen, with one side attaining a decisive victory over the other, sixth elections will loom over the horizon. The results could perpetuate the same vicious cycle of the country’s politics going in…

Taylor Swift was quite the romantic when she burst on the scene in 2006. She sang about the ecstasies of young love and the heartbreak of it. But her mood has hardened as her star has risen. Her excellent new album, Midnights, plays upon a string of negative emotions — anxiety, restlessness,…

While political debate today is focused on the slow but steady disintegration of the so-called world order, the crises affecting the concept of statehood, the foundation of any world order, may not be receiving the attention it merits. Ever since it appeared in its early and vague contours,…

Microsoft Corp. reported 35% growth in cloud services. Alphabet Inc.’s own cloud unit beat estimates and narrowed its losses. Yet both stocks slumped. Two tech titans post solid numbers in strategically important businesses in the middle of a stock market rout, rising US dollar and looming…

Two new, small studies are stirring up more controversy over the new Covid boosters, updated to match the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 strains. The research suggests the shots are no better than old boosters. But that doesn’t mean we should write them off — and certainly doesn’t mean that getting one…

With the exception of Fatah, all of the Palestinian factions and organizations are manifestations of interference on the part of Arab regimes, some would say non-Arab as well, in Palestinian affairs. Despite pretenses to the contrary, Hamas, in its entirety, is unfortunately actually a card in…

An unusually large influx of tiny insects called aphids have been sucking on Dallas-area pecan trees in recent weeks. After they’ve had their fill, they “excrete” the waste out their back ends and onto cars, driveways and sidewalks. “Texas is covered in a sticky, icky goo,” declared a Dallas…

If the Democrats end up losing both the House and the Senate, an outcome that looks more likely than it did a month ago, there will be nothing particularly shocking about the result. The incumbent president’s party almost always suffers losses in the midterms, the Democrats entered 2022 with thin…

In March, Rishi Sunak was photographed filling up a car at a supermarket gas station. The purpose, of course, was self-promotion: Mr. Sunak was keen to advertise his role, as finance minister, in cutting the price of fuel. But the puff misfired. The car, a modest red Kia Rio, wasn’t his (it…