World News Insights: Opinion Articles

With days to go before the United States bumps up against a technical limit on how much debt it can issue, Wall Street analysts and political prognosticators are warning that a perennial source of partisan brinkmanship could finally tip into outright catastrophe in 2023. Big investors and bank…

The news that consumer prices fell in December from November — yes, monthly inflation was negative — was not as wonderful for the Federal Reserve as you might expect. Fed officials are trying to persuade the financial markets and the public that the fight against high inflation is far from over,…

Not only is the probability of an agreement between Iran and Europe declining day after day, but so is the likelihood of containing escalation between the two, which is hindering their ability to prevent them from making difficult choices. This could lead to strategic changes to the traditional…

When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine almost a year ago many analysts expected a quick catharsis in line with the prevailing view of war as a short hymn to military power. That view had taken shape over many decades as memories of wars in ancient times through the…

As the collapse in Lebanon expands, it is becoming increasingly apparent that so long as the August 4 clique is in power, there is no floor for how low the Lira could fall. With it, citizens’ ability to survive plummets too. A frightening number of patients are unable to access the medicine and…

Hearing talks of an Iranian-approved Turkish rapprochement with the Assad regime mediated by Russia, it becomes apparent that weakness, not strength, binds this Asaad-Iran-Russia alliance together. It is the alliance of the doomed. For example, the Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir…

The developments known as the Arab Spring brought lack of stability, security and violence to a number of Arab countries and led to the fall of governments in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia and Algeria. It prepared grounds for revival of the extremist organization Muslim Brotherhood and its coming to…

There is no harm in starting with a confession: no writer has perplexed me the way Sigmund Freud has. Every time I read him, I felt like he is creeping into a dark room in my soul that only I had ever entered. It was difficult for someone who felt this way to swallow the Marxist critiques of the…

Launched just weeks ago, ChatGPT is already threatening to upend how we draft everyday communications like emails, college essays and myriad other forms of writing. Created by the company OpenAI, ChatGPT is a chatbot that can automatically respond to written prompts in a manner that is sometimes…

The way most Americans talk about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., more than 50 years after his assassination, you might think that he gave exactly one speech — on Aug. 28, 1963, in Washington — and spoke exclusively about racial harmony and his oft-mentioned dream of integration. But King,…

Like a cup reader, Khomeini predicted, during a 1978 interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, that “in the future, Iranian society will be magical and free of any form of repression, brutality, and force.” And an “Islamic” revolution against the Shah broke out in 1979. Since then, Iran…

Donald J. Trump shocked the world in 2016 by winning the White House and becoming the first president in US history with no prior military or government experience. He upended the fiction of electability pushed by pundits, the news media and many political consultants, which arrogantly projects who…