World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The frustration of the Democrats demonstrates that the current US administration and party members do neither understand the changes underway in our region nor have an interest in following them. They see the entire world through the lenses of their domestic divisions and engage with our region as…

Although ISIS’s territorial "state" may have been dealt its final defeat in the village of al-Baghouz in eastern Syria nearly three-and-a-half years ago, the terrorist group remains very much alive. In the past two weeks alone, the group has been responsible for at least five attacks in…

Many observers have commented, correctly, that mandating the veil is like forcing it off. The coercion involved in both is driven by an obsession to impose singularity on a people that have the propensity to be pluralistic, with its individuals choosing how to live their lives in accordance with…

College students and nutrition don’t always go together. Spend time on campus and sooner or later somebody will brag about a finals week fueled on cheap drinks, or weekends spent subsisting on leftover pizza. Similar diets in young schoolchildren would be cause for alarm; When they occur in college…

Even as autonomous-vehicle technology gets better, the thought of being in a driverless car is as scary as a few years ago. The news around faulty experiments makes that worse. Big, bold plans of intelligent auto self-navigation aren’t where they were forecast to be. Except in China. Much like…

The White House has gone too far in its reaction to the OPEC+ decision to cut oil production by two million barrels a day. The decision was framed as a Saudi attack on the US aimed at influencing the midterm elections by raising the price American voters pay for oil and fueling resentment at the…

AI’s creative abilities are outstripping its driving skills. While self-driving car technology is going nowhere, there’s been a remarkable explosion in research around generative models, or artificial intelligence systems that can create images from simple text. In just the past week, AI…

Maybe Elon Musk will acquire Twitter Inc. before a court-appointed Oct. 28 deadline to complete the $44 billion acquisition rolls around. Maybe the price of Tesla Inc.’s shares, currency that Musk may need to rely on to help pay for the deal, will bounce back from a grinding downturn. Maybe the…

Some Americans seem to be more enthusiastic about punishing Riyadh for its participation in voting for the decrease of oil production than they had been eager to sanction Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. As disagreements over oil prices have been a constant and recurring problem (since they…

The young man’s long browsing of the bookshelves reminded me of my feelings whenever I go to the library. How hard it is to choose when you are confronted by rows and rows of books that have stood the test of time. Opting for one book leads to a sense of guilt for having chosen it over the…

It would be wrong to assume that the changes in oil prices are part of a politically-motivated Saudi-American confrontation. The last thing Riyadh is thinking about is using oil as a weapon to balance out the scene or harm one side or the other. As Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al…

The US is escalating the technological cold war with China through new sanctions to squeeze the flow of high-end semiconductors and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment to Beijing. Don’t let the technological arcana fool you: Since advanced semiconductors power information-age societies, the US…