World News Insights: Opinion Articles

When I received my Ph.D. in history in 2013, I didn’t expect that within a decade fights over history — and historiography, even if few people use that word — would become front-page news. But over the last few years that is precisely what has happened: Just look at the recent debates over America…

Don’t bemoan your sorrows at the doors of the United Nations. The building is gloomy and its prestige is rubble. It can no longer offer guarantees or solutions. In the current century, the UN suffered two severe blows. Here we are in the jungle. If you are not a wolf, the wolves will eat you. …

There is much we still do not know about President Biden’s stash of secret documents, but one thing is painfully obvious: The system for protecting secrets vital to national security has spun out of control. The question is why. No one should be surprised that documents marked secret keep…

On Thursday, an important statement was issued by Egypt and Saudi Arabia after the meeting of the follow-up and political consultation committee, which is headed by Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan and his Egyptian counterpart, Sameh Shoukry. Several important points…

What if one of us were to come across an assessment of life and the world that concludes with a series of commandments and recommendations for how to deal with them that tells us, among other things: This world we live in is an extremely miserable and melancholic place. As for life - every life …

Attendance at the world’s biggest conference of economists was down by half this year, and that had some attendees worrying that the annual conclave was at risk of unraveling like a knitted sweater. People who were disappointed not to see their friends at this year’s Allied Social Science…

Whether out of Anglophilia, nostalgia, masochism, traditionalism or just a particular strain of fealty to the rich and famous, America’s quixotic devotion to the British monarchy remains strong. What, then, explains America’s particular crush on the semiroyal Sussexes? Harry and Meghan haven’t…

It would be no exaggeration to claim that the foundations of the Iranian regime are disintegrating and breaking apart. Its leaders are trying to prevent the publicization of this fact in whatever way they can. The decision to execute Alireza Akbari, the defense minister’s top advisor who had been…

On Monday January 9, the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader spoke to a group of supporters of the regime. He repeated his previous condemnations of demonstrators and affirmed the punishments meted out to them by the Judiciary. These punishments have led to hurried death sentences for some…

These are tough days for the “Supreme Guide” of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.   For the first time in more than three decades he seems unable to do a Houdini number by getting out of a tight spot that events and his own mistakes have placed him in.   For more than three decades…

The Mullah regime in Iran is facing a difficult conundrum. The Islamic Republic, which claims to support Islam and Muslims across the globe and to lead the Shiites in their struggle in preparation for the return of the disappeared Imam, the awaited Mahdi, is allied with a Christian country, Armenia…

Republicans have been hounding President Biden for more than a year to travel to the southern border and see the situation there with his own eyes. “I guess I should go down,” he conceded in a town hall meeting with CNN in October 2021, but he explained that he had been too busy to make the trip…