World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The other day, my CUNY and Stone Center colleague Branko Milanovic suggested that it would be interesting to “compare Napoleon’s continental blockade against Great Britain to the current sanctions against Russia.” As it happened, I was already on the topic. I had just read Andrew Roberts’s …

If you want to know why Europe’s largest economy is a digital laggard — indeed, if you want to know why progress is difficult anywhere — regale yourself with a trip into the fine print of a new German law governing employment contracts. The occasion for the anecdote is a directive from Brussels…

For a market that has typically been seen as concentrating on the future, investors can sometimes take a surprisingly backward view. Consider their upbeat reaction to Alphabet Inc.’s earnings, reflected in the stock’s 5% jump in early trading last week. As encouraging as it might be that second…

After all the false starts and dashed hopes of the past two years, I’m reluctant to count my chickens before they’ve actually been signed in the Oval Office. Still, it appears that Democrats have finally agreed on another major piece of legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act. And if it does…

The experience of driving across America, which my family just recklessly embraced, is an experience of America but, of course, also an experience of driving. In the last three weeks I’ve spent roughly 55 hours behind the wheel, counting all our detours and side trips, in a rented American minivan …

As the battery provide chain will get concentrated within the palms of some international locations, a forgotten metallic might assist rising and growing markets keep away from getting left behind The world’s largest battery firm is popping to abundantly obtainable supplies because it seems to…

Reports are circulating that the United States is negotiating with Russia to exchange two Americans being held in Russian prisons for a notorious arms dealer serving time in America. The deal is totally lopsided: The two Americans — the basketball star Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, a security…

The transformations underway in Tunisia, at the popular, state and constitutional levels, are the most prominent push back against fundamentalism today… Since the Muslim Brotherhood’s regime in Egypt fell, the Ennahda Movement has been trying to promote the project of the Brotherhood, betting on…

Time is cruel. It brings down empires without blinking an eyelid. One lifetime is not enough to fight many wars. How difficult it is to piece together torn novels! The hardest part of the journey is the change of roles and colors and the mixing of friends with enemies. He looked out of the…

Republican flamethrowers and culture warriors like Donald Trump and Representatives Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene typically draw an outsize amount of media attention. Americans may conclude from this that there is a striking, and perhaps unfortunate, relationship between extremism and…

In the European energy crisis, all of the attention is focused on Germany and gas from Russia. But France and its fleet of struggling nuclear reactors are at least as important. Indeed, the first European city to suffer a blackout as temperatures drop toward the end of the year may well be Paris…

No sooner had one fire in Yosemite been contained than a new one erupted in a different part of the park. This summer’s Western wildfires have brought attention to the risks that climate change brings to America’s national parks and the treasures they contain — like the giant sequoia trees, the…