World News Insights: Opinion Articles

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…

The European “way of life” has always been a vague concept, but — after Covid-19 — it chimed with a new generation looking for la dolce vita. Citigroup Inc. is one unlikely poster child. At its new office in Malaga, Spain, junior bankers can expect to be paid half the salary of their London…

Like everybody I know in Germany, I bought the so-called 9-euro ticket this summer. Three, in fact — one each for June, July and August. I put the QR codes in my cell phone’s digital wallet, and was free to hop on and off all buses, trams, local and regional trains nationwide. This all-you-can…

Earlier this week, President Joe Biden seemed to commit to saying “The pandemic is over.” The backlash was swift. That’s understandable, given that hundreds of people are still dying from Covid every day. But President Biden may be doing what comes naturally to many of us — judging the situation by…

The ongoing protests in Iran are not driven by specific demands and grievances like the others we have seen over the past five years, and they are not political reactions like the Green Revolution of 2009 either. When an elderly woman dares to take her headscarf off, goes out into the streets of…