World News Insights: Opinion Articles

“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…

Interest rates are up. Stocks, especially glamour stocks, like Tesla, are down. And the crypto crash has been truly epic. What’s going on? Well, many people I read have been offering an overarching narrative that runs something like this: For the past 10 or maybe even 20 years the Fed has kept…

As you will doubtless have been informed, world equities are now in a bear market. What happens next? The most excessive speculation has already been washed out of the system. Those warning of bubbles in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, meme stocks, or the growth tech companies owned by the…

We still encounter those people who intend to censor Netflix and ban Japanese manga magazines and some series screened on MBC channels. Since they still live in the near past, they cannot handle the fact that the world provides enough space for all ideas and human beings. Hence, they persist on…

Five sentences sum up the war in Ukraine as it stands now. The Russians are running out of precision-guided weapons. The Ukrainians are running out of Soviet-era munitions. The world is running out of patience for the war. The Biden administration is running out of ideas for how to wage it. And…

When I was supreme allied commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization about a decade ago, I would often point out to Americans the enormous capability of the alliance: combined defense spending near $900 billion (outspending China and Russia by nearly three times); 24,000 combat aircraft; 3…

Jupiter is no longer ascending. French elections have brought a hung parliament, robbing President Emmanuel Macron of his majority, his authority and his credibility as a centrist bulwark against the far-right and the far-left. Fragile coalitions at the heart of the euro area’s No. 2 economy will…