World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Turn on the evening news and it immediately becomes clear that Americans are experiencing the effects of climate change. Extreme heat and drought are affecting tens of millions of people, as floods and wildfires ravage communities from Appalachia to California. In the coming days, Congress has the…

Last Thursday, the day of the second anniversary of the Beirut port blast, was the day that it became conclusively certain that the Lebanese have been expelled to nature and that they must manage their affairs there, not in a state of laws or through socialization. The scale of the protests…

As Israel strikes Gaza, targeting Islamic Jihad with arrests and assassinations, the head of Quds Force, Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, said that Hezbollah was capable of wiping Israel off the map when the time is right. Speaking on Friday evening in the city of Sari in northern Iran, he said…

The debate about whether the world’s largest economy is in a recession, or headed for a recession, or sufficiently robust to avoid a recession, just got even more complicated. Friday’s US employment report showed total payrolls at a record high, with companies adding twice as many workers as…

When 26,500 tons of corn sailed out of the port of Odesa this week — the first agricultural export from Ukraine since Russia’s invasion — many food security experts breathed a sigh of relief. The news, combined with the falling cost of wheat after global prices had nearly doubled, has investors and…

As quickly as it blew up, the food crisis of 2022 appears to be receding. Red spring wheat rose to nearly $13 a bushel in March, prompting the world’s biggest wheat importer, Egypt, to devalue its currency. It’s now trading around $8, a fall of more than a third. Indonesia halted exports of…

In the ongoing war in Ukraine, Russia has occupied a part of the country extending from areas marked by major cities of Kharkiv in the north, to Kherson in the south, or around 22 percent of the country. On the waterfront, Ukraine has lost the Azov Sea and most of its Black Sea coast to Russia,…

It’s time to give President Joe Biden credit for achieving something no one predicted: bipartisanship in foreign policy. The Senate on Wednesday delivered a victory for Biden’s foreign policy agenda, voting almost unanimously to admit Finland and Sweden into the North Atlantic Treaty…

Days after the England women’s football team clinched a 2-1 victory over Germany in the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 final, the country is still coming to terms with what it means to bring the game home. Alex Scott, a former England player and highly regarded commentator, likened it to when the US women…

Parenthood has always been fraught with worry and guilt, but parents in the age of social media have increasingly confronted a distinctly acute kind of powerlessness. Their kids are unwitting subjects in a remarkable experiment in human social forms, building habits and relationships in an unruly…

The Boris Johnson era is over. But the turmoil has only just begun. For the third time in under a decade, a crisis at the top of the Conservative Party has ousted a sitting prime minister. Whereas his predecessors had been brought down by Brexit, Mr. Johnson’s reign was broken by a series of…

By chance, I met with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi during the most difficult forty-eight hours Iraq has endured during his term, as Mesopotamia was split into two camps, each with its own narrative about how it is right and the other side is wrong. Baghdad was on the brink, and if…