World News Insights: Opinion Articles

More than three years ago, the international coalition dealt ISIS’s self-proclaimed ‘state’ in Syria and Iraq its final defeat, capturing the terrorist group’s last remaining pocket of control of al-Baghouz in eastern Syria. The military achievement, secured in close coordination with our local…

A company is in distress. Its financials are in shatters. Its brand value is being questioned. The chief executive officer has a broad blueprint to revamp and he has the support of some board members. But for a complete re-branding, he needs the approval of the chairman first. This is a process…

If Joe Biden wants to run for re-election, he should say so clearly and soon — and then start acting like it. Alternatively, if the president is not sure he wants to run again, he should take that as a strong sign that he shouldn’t — and then make that announcement soon, too. The point, you may…

Whenever disputes erupt between an Arab and a Kurdish faction in Iraq, the former slanders the latter with a ready-made accusation: you are a secessionist. Masoud Barzani, and his late father, Mullah Mustafa before him, broke the world record for facing this accusation the most times. Christians…

Jordan’s King Abdullah II announced his support for the establishment of a NATO-like alliance in the Middle East. He stressed that he supports the formation of a military alliance in the Middle East, similar to NATO, comprised of “like-minded countries”. “I’d like to see more countries in…

Covid-19 made hunger a critical concern as millions of Americans lost their jobs, families were homebound and supply chains were disrupted. Now inflation and war are making it worse. Ensuring that people had enough food to feed their families wasn't a partisan issue during the pandemic, when…

The next step in the conflict between the West and Russian President Vladimir Putin was supposed to be a European boycott on Russian coal, oil and natural gas. It may instead be a gas embargo by Putin on Europe. It comes to much the same. The countries of the European Union must accept what…

President Joe Biden declares his loyalty to organized labor at every opportunity. His fiscal stimulus, infrastructure plan and numerous executive orders have delivered favors and accommodations. When Apple retail workers in Maryland voted recently to unionize, he said: “I am proud of them. Workers…

There’s a lot of hand-wringing in the foreign-exchange market about a fresh “currency war” breaking out, with countries and central banks taking action to support their weakening currencies to offset a strengthening US dollar. The last currency war took place a decade ago, but that one was about…

Long Covid is making it hard for millions of Americans to return to normal life, pushing some out of the workforce altogether, sometimes permanently. Yet medical efforts to figure out how best to help these patients are proceeding only slowly. Research has zeroed in on a few probable causes of…

Modern constitutional law as we have known it ended today. When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood, it repudiated the very idea that America’s highest court exists to protect people’s fundamental liberties from legislative majorities that would infringe on…

As the negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 over the former’s nuclear program falter, the eyes of security officials turn to Istanbul, or any other city that could potentially become a theater of conflict between the intelligence agencies of Tehran and Tel Aviv. Indeed, Turkish and Israeli…