World News Insights: Opinion Articles

President Biden shocked me when he said on October 6 that we are closest to a nuclear war since 1962 and the Cuba Missile Crisis. Biden pointed to President Putin and stated that it is hard to stop an escalation from using smaller, tactical nuclear weapons to total nuclear Armageddon. Excuse me,…

More profound than an understanding between two belligerents, the Palestinian-Israeli Oslo Accords, at their core, are an approach. The Accords changed the rules, turning them from rules governing the conflict to rules governing the settlement. What Palestine’s Oslo Accords and Lebanon’s recent…

As the uprising in Iran enters its fourth week speculation about its future is rife. Participants insist that they are on the path to victory, achieving regime change. They cite a number of reasons. To start with this is the first time that a national uprising isn’t about any particular…

Year three of the Covid-19 pandemic is now more than halfway over, believe it or not — with a fall surge likely on the way. But the emergency phase is far enough in the country’s rearview mirror that the experience of the pandemic thus far can be examined a little more clinically and a little less…

Lebanese media reports have asserted that Quds Force Deputy Commander Reza Fallahzadeh has made calls to several Hezbollah officials to inform them that an agreement on a nuclear deal would be delayed despite the parties to it having agreed on all the details. Reza Fallahzadeh also conveyed the…

The late economist Hyman Minsky is famous for developing the theory that long periods of steady investment gains can foster complacency and thus encourage excessive risk-taking, leading eventually to a crisis: what was later termed the “Minsky Moment.” In other words, stability breeds instability…

Two decades ago, a cascade of accounting scandals in the US led to one of the most comprehensive packages of financial rules of the past century. Now, it’s time for regulators to act on escalating cybersecurity breaches to offer similar protections to consumers and investors. Within the span of…

The frustration of the Democrats demonstrates that the current US administration and party members do neither understand the changes underway in our region nor have an interest in following them. They see the entire world through the lenses of their domestic divisions and engage with our region as…

Although ISIS’s territorial "state" may have been dealt its final defeat in the village of al-Baghouz in eastern Syria nearly three-and-a-half years ago, the terrorist group remains very much alive. In the past two weeks alone, the group has been responsible for at least five attacks in…

Many observers have commented, correctly, that mandating the veil is like forcing it off. The coercion involved in both is driven by an obsession to impose singularity on a people that have the propensity to be pluralistic, with its individuals choosing how to live their lives in accordance with…

College students and nutrition don’t always go together. Spend time on campus and sooner or later somebody will brag about a finals week fueled on cheap drinks, or weekends spent subsisting on leftover pizza. Similar diets in young schoolchildren would be cause for alarm; When they occur in college…

Even as autonomous-vehicle technology gets better, the thought of being in a driverless car is as scary as a few years ago. The news around faulty experiments makes that worse. Big, bold plans of intelligent auto self-navigation aren’t where they were forecast to be. Except in China. Much like…