World News Insights: Opinion Articles

As the war in Ukraine drags on many commentators wonder where and when Vladimir Putin might decide to call an end to his current aggressive behavior. Digging into Russian history some may assert that even if he does stop it would be a tactical move of the kind that Lenin described as "one step back…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s model of welfarism isn’t new to India: Previous leaders have also subsidized food and fuel, and given the rural poor houses, toilets, and paid work. Modi’s edge comes from technology. A year before the 2014 election that brought him to power, the government, then led…

President Xi Jinping has a lot going on right now. Just this week he slammed the weaponization of the global financial system, vowed to meet domestic growth goals, and called for the healthy development of China’s fintech sector. They’re all related. In the first reference to economic targets…

Each episode of the true-crime drama currently airing from Room 390 of the Cannon House Office Building in Washington has offered variations on a theme: Former President Donald Trump used the powers of his office, and blunt force, to foment a coup after losing the 2020 presidential election. …

Since the Jewish state was founded and until further notice, no single person has been the center of political life before, whether it is a leader of the government or the opposition. Before Benjamin Netanyahu, the longest-serving Prime Minister in Israeli history and the most powerful and…

Elon Musk’s assertion last month that the number of Twitter bots is as “unknowable as the human soul” may well be a negotiating tactic from a man who’s probably feeling a bit of buyer’s remorse. Yet tallying up how many machines are running around on Twitter Inc.’s platform is a pretty…

“Beware the nested game.” It is one of the least-known but most useful adages to keep in mind when following international affairs, and it is especially relevant now that Lithuania has announced a blockade of sanctioned Russian goods. A nested game is what it sounds like — a game within a game…

That Sinking Feeling Mad magazine, the foundational text of my diseased worldview, once ran a famous infographic of Richard Nixon making promises about the Vietnam War as he slowly sank into a body of water. It came to mind today as I read about Fed Chairman Jay Powell’s latest testimony in…

To look at the way richer countries are spending money on the energy transition, you might think we’re within reach of bringing climate change under control. Investment in clean energy has only accelerated in the years since Covid-19 struck. In the second half of the last decade, it grew at a 2%…

Here in America, we are following the investigation by the American congress into the attack on the Capitol building in Washington on January 6, 2021 when an armed mob tried to block the certification of Joseph Biden’s election victory. After the first two weeks of hearings, the purpose of the…

With the regional tour of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, specifically his visits to Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, we can say that our area is finally reaching the calm that was lost since what was falsely known as the Arab Spring. It is true that the Crown Prince’s tour has economic…

In celebration of its anniversary, Hezbollah called the forty years of its existence (1982- 2022) “the forty springs.” A “series of festive activities” will be held to mark the occasion, as the ad promoting them says. The fact is that anyone looking at Lebanon’s conditions today would struggle…