World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The gains of Ukraine’s bold offensive are real, spectacular, and the product of a remarkable partnership with Washington. Success, however, can test any relationship, and Ukraine’s battlefield victories could, ironically, stoke new tensions with the US. Right now, officials in both countries are…

Until recently, everything the West exported to us was sacred; every idea was accepted, every product, and every political or social narrative. The major reason we believed them was a conviction that the West had beaten us to it in science, that its nationals are more knowledgeable and…

Whether it is the arrival of the Covid pandemic, or the droughts across the UK, there is nothing like an immediate crisis to jolt us into focusing on what has been known, and said, for a long time - but not given enough thought. Ironically, an answer to some of our climatic problems could lie in…

We see a new impasse in negotiations about renewing the 2015 agreement that limits Iran’s nuclear program. Members of Congress are pressuring the Biden administration not to make any concessions. Many Democrats and Republicans in Congress want no deal. A group of fifty representatives from the…

Arab political thought has extensively dealt with what it called “authenticity and modernity” and reconciling the two. Days ago in Britain, we saw, with the passing of Queen Elizabeth and the ascension of her son Charles to the throne, a remarkable ceremony of “authenticity and modernity:”…

The gist of what we have read and heard from American and western statements after Iran’s response to the “final proposal” offered by the European Union to the Iranians and Americans over the revival of the nuclear deal is that there is no Plan B to deal with Tehran. For example, US Secretary…

Meta Platforms Inc. has become the latest social media giant to tinker with the idea of selling premium features as part of its service, according to a report in The Verge. Having been free for years, it wants to see if any of us will pay for new widgets in Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp. That…

Since the death of Mikhail Gorbachev much has been written about his legacy. Articles, documentaries and comments have been critical, as well as complimentary depending on how one was affected by his policies. In Russia he remains controversial. Some have vilified him as responsible for the…

The immense changes we have seen since 9/11 have not changed what this ominous day for the future of international relations and our region’s ties to the rest of the world stands for. The ramifications of this crime perpetrated by Al-Qaeda remain at the heart of the series of events that have…

Tighter restrictions on US semiconductor and equipment sales are set to test China’s artificial intelligence superpowers as Washington removes a key plank of next-generation technological development. The Biden Administration plans to broaden curbs on shipments of AI chips and chip-making tools,…

Japan looks like it may finally open its borders and end its splendid isolation. The key question is: Can it learn to love foreign tourists again? After a series of head fake border re-openings this year which promised more than they delivered, a report Monday that Japan would scrap most…

His whole life, King Charles has been in the shadow of women with more star power. First, his mother, the queen. Next, his first wife, Diana. Then, in recent years, Meghan Markle, with her breakaway from Buckingham Palace and her sensational Oprah interview alleging racism in the royal family. …