World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The White House has gone too far in its reaction to the OPEC+ decision to cut oil production by two million barrels a day. The decision was framed as a Saudi attack on the US aimed at influencing the midterm elections by raising the price American voters pay for oil and fueling resentment at the…

AI’s creative abilities are outstripping its driving skills. While self-driving car technology is going nowhere, there’s been a remarkable explosion in research around generative models, or artificial intelligence systems that can create images from simple text. In just the past week, AI…

Maybe Elon Musk will acquire Twitter Inc. before a court-appointed Oct. 28 deadline to complete the $44 billion acquisition rolls around. Maybe the price of Tesla Inc.’s shares, currency that Musk may need to rely on to help pay for the deal, will bounce back from a grinding downturn. Maybe the…

Some Americans seem to be more enthusiastic about punishing Riyadh for its participation in voting for the decrease of oil production than they had been eager to sanction Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. As disagreements over oil prices have been a constant and recurring problem (since they…

The young man’s long browsing of the bookshelves reminded me of my feelings whenever I go to the library. How hard it is to choose when you are confronted by rows and rows of books that have stood the test of time. Opting for one book leads to a sense of guilt for having chosen it over the…

It would be wrong to assume that the changes in oil prices are part of a politically-motivated Saudi-American confrontation. The last thing Riyadh is thinking about is using oil as a weapon to balance out the scene or harm one side or the other. As Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al…

The US is escalating the technological cold war with China through new sanctions to squeeze the flow of high-end semiconductors and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment to Beijing. Don’t let the technological arcana fool you: Since advanced semiconductors power information-age societies, the US…

The reactions of the Democrats to OPEC’s decision to reduce production have been heated and unobjective. They and their media speak of Saudi Arabia as “stabbing them in the back” and its “betrayal.” They have also said that “friends” do not do this to “their friends” and that Saudi Arabia…

The concept of revolution, at least in modern times, is broad and elastic, even contradictory. Coming up with a comprehensive and precise definition for revolution is surplus to requirements. Even among the interpretations offered by Marxism, which have presented the broadest and most influential…

The world meets at the Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Summit in less than a month, overwhelmed by worries and conflicting concerns. It will not be easy for negotiators to bypass the consequences of war and the economy, to tackle the challenges of climate change. Even though the Sharm El-Sheikh summit …

This is not a revolt of the non-religious against a theocratic regime, nor is it a secular movement against a religious political system. Indeed, women who opt to wear the veil as a choice rather than a state-mandated obligation have protested alongside the women demanding that the veil not be…

The current session of the United Nations General Assembly saw a resurgence of talk about the need to reform the Security Council. This is undoubtedly due to the intensifying international challenges and dangers from the Ukrainian war which is open to the worst possible scenarios, to the various…