World News Insights: Opinion Articles

On our first morning at the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica, the air was eerily still. The captain of our research icebreaker, encouraged by the calm, made a bold choice: Our ship would hold close to the ice shelf so that the sonar system would peer a little ways beneath it while generating a…

The world of management is abuzz about the idea of “quiet quitting” — the Gen Z, TikTok-boosted term for doing nothing more at work than the job description demands. Of course, there’s nothing new about this phenomenon — if Gen Z knew how to dial a call, they would understand the age-old…

Britain’s longest-serving monarch has died. It feels like a death in the family. Born in 1926, the year that John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television, and crowned in 1953, the year of Joseph Stalin’s death, the Queen has been with us for so long that only a sliver of…

Much time has been spent asking, after each of Israel’s weekly airstrikes on Syrian territory: Why does the Syrian regime refrain from retaliating? The fact is that hardly a week goes by without an Israeli airstrike on various targets in Syria, mostly those operated by the IRGC or the…

Jared Kushner may be Donald Trump’s son-in-law, but he is not like him. He’s calm. He listens more than he speaks. He is believed to have been the mastermind behind the first election campaign, which ended with the shocking and once unimaginable victory of Trump. Certainly, Trump lacks in official…

A decision Monday by a federal judge granting former President Donald Trump’s request for an independent review of the FBI’s seizure of documents at Mar-a-Lago last month has prompted an unusually forceful backlash within the legal community. It isn’t just partisan analysts who are reacting with…

Over the past two weeks, a pair of dangerous maritime events unfolded in the still-steamy, late-summer waters of the Arabian Gulf. Iran twice intercepted and captured American unmanned sea drones, held them until challenged by the US Navy, and ultimately returned them, albeit grudgingly. What…

In the seven years since Apple Inc. released its first Apple Watch, the device has sold more than 100 million units, catapulting it to 30% of the global smartwatch market. Yet it’s struggled to grab a small but important niche: endurance sports. Peruse the start of any Ironman triathlon race and…

When former US President Barack Obama began making moves toward a rapprochement with Iran and pushing for a nuclear deal. It was unclear what steps would be taken and what kind of agreement would be concluded, but everyone was aware that something bad had been unfolding. Today, the states…

Talk about the tenure of the current Lebanese president, Michel Aoun, coming to an end is often coupled with the phrase “presidential vacuum.” This description is inaccurate in two senses: First, we might be faced with two vacuums, not one, after Aoun’s term ends: a presidential vacuum and a…

Writing a new Constitution strikes many Americans as a transgressive idea. Our Constitution is the oldest in the world, and it has come to seem immutable. The last really substantive change was a 1971 amendment lowering the voting age to 18. Instead of updating a text written more than 200 years…

“Do we confront this moment with honesty,” asked Rishi Sunak, one of the two candidates running to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister of Britain, “or do we tell ourselves comforting fairy tales?” The answer, from the Conservative Party membership, at least, is fairy tales. On Monday the…