World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Liz Truss, the new prime minister of Britain who may not be the prime minister for long, is by general agreement out of touch with reality. Her big gambit upon succeeding Boris Johnson, a mini-budget crowded with tax cuts, looks like a policy debacle, recklessly inflationary and fiscally…

Today, the world faces huge challenges from health threats that can impact people, animals and the environment. In the past, experts and policy-makers addressed these threats separately, depending on their field of specialization, but today we recognize that the health of these different entities…

Some dates instantly go down in history because of their nature, danger and number of victims. They go down in history because they forever alter the world. This is what happened. It is an end of an era in Ukraine, Russia, Europe and the world. It was an unprecedented scene indeed. Four barons…

When you’re telling stories about the economy, housing almost always looms large. It plays a huge role in the economy’s ups and downs: A burst housing bubble was the prime mover in the Great Recession of 2007-9, and the Federal Reserve’s leverage over the economy comes largely from the influence of…

In rural America, the shoulder-high corn is increasingly competing with a new cash crop: solar power. Acres of solar panels shine brightly in fields along interstates and rural byways, signaling a change in how America’s farming country generates income. The need for a happy marriage between these…

President Vladimir Putin signing the decree annexing the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson, after having held internationally unrecognized referendums in those regions, raises an important question: Has Putin won? Has he achieved any victories at all? To answer this…

Imagine if Arab intellectuals, during the nationalist era in the fifties and sixties, had behaved as though the Palestinian Nakba did not concern them. Such behavior would have been considered a grave shortcoming in their nationalist qualities, if not collusion with the enemy of nationalism…

When a Tesla Inc. battery caught fire at an energy storage facility that helps power California last week, critics were quick to pounce. Michael Burry of “The Big Short” fame, who called the mid-2000s housing collapse correctly, hit out at the EV maker. Blaming Elon Musk’s firm for a bad battery…

The price of “living with Covid” in a free and open society is turning out to be much heftier than public health experts predicted. Even with good vaccines and treatments, this year’s US death toll is already many orders of magnitude higher than that of the other virus that circulates each year,…

You can’t control when a recession hits. But although tech platforms like Alphabet Inc. and Snap Inc. are slimming down to cope with the global economic rout, Meta Platforms Inc.’s own restructuring couldn’t come at a worse time for the firm. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff on Thursday to…

Our international rules-based order through which the world’s nations pursue global peace and development is crashing into the limits of its founding vision. What our predecessors built some eight decades ago, after the Second World War — from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to the…

In its effort to quell the crisis of protests over the murder of Mahsa Amini by the morality police, the Iranian regime has done many things in parallel. To turn attention away from the protests that have been ongoing (though their scale has been oscillating throughout) for two weeks, it invoked…