World News Insights: Opinion Articles

It happened here, again. Nearly 100 years since the March on Rome, Italy on Sunday voted in a right-wing coalition headed by a party directly descended from Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime. This is, to put it mildly, concerning. Yet the most pervasive worry is not that Giorgia Meloni’s…

When the Russian- Ukrainian crisis first began, I wrote an article entitled ‘The Ukraine Crisis: Neo-McCarthyism to terrorize Opponents.’ In it, I discussed how the West manipulates what it calls rights and how it addresses the issue divergently depending on its interests, particularly as it tried…

As enraged people pour into the streets in most (if not all) Iranian cities, it is widely believed that this is the most dramatic development in the country in the last four decades. Yet, despite their gravity, these protests are not likely to bring down the current regime, unlike the 1979 protests…

The crisis in Ukraine has preoccupied all of our time. It is as if a new world is being born there. From Ukrainian blood, Russian blood, the wailing from burnt down houses, the rubble of international law and the specter of nuclear terror. A treacherous world that is open to all dangers. …

For a project so ambitious, the announcement about the end of flying-car startup Kitty Hawk Corp. was surprisingly terse. A single post on the company’s LinkedIn page on Wednesday stated: “We have made the decision to wind down Kittyhawk. We’re still working on the details of what’s next.” The…

At a 1985 banquet marking the 30th anniversary of National Review, with Ronald Reagan in attendance, William F. Buckley Jr. gave a speech celebrating the American nuclear deterrent, and the willingness of the American president to use it. Those weapons and that willingness, Buckley declaimed, had…

The success of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz’s humanitarian initiative, which allowed for prisoners from five nations to be exchanged between Russia and Ukraine, means that there is a third way of addressing the war in Ukraine. The Crown Prince’s efforts were crowned with the…

In the Middle East generally and in Iran particularly, womanhood is more like a status or concept than a gender. Beyond their repression purely because they are women, the women of the region constitute a point of reference: the governed, in the face of power, resemble women victims of domestic…

The persistent delay in addressing the issue of the aging supertanker Safer, used as a floating storage and offloading vessel, which threatens unprecedented pollution in the Red Sea region, proves that the world often does not learn from past experience. It seems that we ignore time bombs, as…

Companies are mentioning freight costs much less frequently during this season of conference calls than they did a year ago, and when they have discussed them, the conversation has revolved around a sense of relief. That’s a good sign for easing inflation. It’s easy to see why. The price to ship…

An evil and oppressive government has taken Iranians hostage for more than forty years. An ideological and sectarian regime which, in the past forty years, has had no goal but forming an army of militias and oppressive groups to dispatch all over the Middle East to pursue its evil goals. It…

Military forces of Armenia and Azerbaijan fought a brief war with dozens of casualties on both sides. At a time when the war in Ukraine continues with major implications all over the world, the tension turned physical in the Caucasus has been extra concerning. Armenia and Azerbaijan, which…