World News Insights: Opinion Articles

In times of economic uncertainty, it used to pay to check with the bond market to see what signals it was sending. Is the economy headed into a recession? See whether yields are declining. Is inflation about to accelerate? See whether yields are rising. Bonds were the economy’s crystal ball. Now,…

Five years ago, India’s federal and state governments struck a historic deal. From July 1, 2017, a uniform tax on goods and services — marketed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “One Nation, One Tax, One Market” — replaced a bewildering array of local sales and entry levies. But the many…

The dynamics and laws of the US domestic policy are unique and different from its foreign policy. The Supreme Court has eliminated the federal constitutional right to abortion, abandoning decades of precedent and stirring up further domestic discord. This step is deemed an embarrassment for the US…

Will the Arab Levant, stretching from Iraq in the East to Egypt in the West, remain an inhabitable region? This alarmist title is not intended to incite alarm. The goal, on the contrary, is to attempt to understand the dark, intractable times our region is going through. But we can’t deny the…

Since Joe Biden assumed the US presidency, his administration has been rushing to revive the nuclear deal with Tehran. This resulted in internal and foreign criticism being leveled against US Special Representative for Iran Robert Malley for his desire to strike an agreement with Iran at any cost. …

One of the longstanding worries about the technologies of artificial intelligence is that they will enable surveillance, autocracy and maybe even totalitarianism. These views no longer seem so convincing. The world’s autocratic states are not exactly turning these technologies to their advantage,…

China is turning back to low-cost coal to boost its ailing economy. It's an understandable reaction to the toll caused by Covid lockdowns. But it will come with a steep price for the environment and the health of its citizens. It's also likely to worsen food insecurity in China just as the world…

Tickets for marquee sporting events don’t come cheap. A top Premier League match, where a stadium can pack 40,000 to 60,000 football fans, easily runs £100 ($121) for club members, with prices far higher on the secondary market. A weekend at the just completed Silverstone Grand Prix starts at a…

Since the dawn of man, human beings have been organizing themselves into groups. Human beings have always been careful to manage their affairs within the community and manage their community’s relations with others. Before the concept of a modern state emerged, the concept of authority was…

“Turtles all the way down” is a handy phrase for describing how the human mind creatively fills in holes of logic. It allegedly springs from one person’s attempt to justify to the philosopher Bertrand Russell her belief that the world was floating on a giant turtle by imagining another turtle…

The Public Investment Fund (PIF) today occupies a prominent, influential position as a major investment force among the world’s top sovereign wealth funds. Its strategies act to boost national economic growth through investment in projects and opportunities on the national and international levels,…

As energy security becomes a growing source of angst, it’s clear that large-scale, reliable use of renewable resources remain a distant reality in many countries. That’s allowed a more controversial — and almost perfect — alternative to make a comeback: nuclear. Trouble is, nobody wants a reactor…