World News Insights: Opinion Articles

As if the world’s rainforests didn’t have enough problems to contend with, even the transition to zero-carbon power is threatening to level them. Industrial mining ate up 3,265 square kilometers (1,260 square miles) of tropical forest between 2002 and 2019, according to a recent study in the…

With Rishi Sunak as prime minister of the UK, it is now impossible to deny what has been evident for some while: Indian talent is revolutionizing the Western world far more than had been expected 10 or 15 years ago. You might think UK leadership is an exception, but consider the US. It is…

Yes… The title of this column is ironic. However, the intention is not to engage in schadenfreude but to ask if the liberal-left lost its right hand in propaganda and whipping up tensions after Elon Musk purchased Twitter? Musk, who is disgruntled with the left, recently tweeted that “the bird is…

There is no shortage of new headlines about the Middle East in the international press. There are headlines of every kind, summing up the region's many open-ended conflicts and aborted attempts. Nevertheless, most of these events seem repetitive- deja vu to an extent. This leaves boredom replacing…

For the first time, we’re heading into a Covid winter mostly free of restrictions. People are tired of mandates and rules, tired of lining up for tests and even, as booster rates show, tired of getting shots. And so public health needs a new approach to do any good — one based not on restrictions…

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…