World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Some people are naturally more decisive. These charge-ahead types make choices assuredly, from the trivial to the life-changing, stick to them and don’t look back. But do they make better decisions? It turns out that indecisive people don’t make worse decisions. In fact, the art of making good…

Over a decade ago, Elon Musk scoffed at the idea that China’s BYD Co. was a legitimate competitor. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Now, Warren Buffett-backed BYD is set to wash out its closest rival in China, Tesla Inc. Last week, a BYD executive said that his company was “preparing to supply…

Last week, the chair of the bipartisan House panel investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, Bennie Thompson, opened the committee’s televised hearings by assigning moral responsibility to former President Donald Trump for “a sprawling, multi-step conspiracy” to overturn the presidential election…

As soon as Vladimir Putin likened himself to Peter the Great, Western press outlets began brimming with headlines about his comparison. The Russian president’s suggestion was understood to be glorifying Russia’s historical expansionist wars: what Peter captured from Sweden and other countries, he…

As the chances for achieving a nuclear agreement with Iran dwindle, notable Israeli statements are being made about Tehran coming closer to acquiring nuclear weapons and Israel shifting towards a new strategy to target Iran. “We are implementing the Octopus Doctrine,” Israeli Prime Minister…

In the early hours of June 12, celebrated in Vladimir Putin’s country as Russia Day, a curious piece appeared on the website of the pro-Kremlin daily Izvestia. Signed ostensibly by Putin’s First Deputy Chief of Staff Sergei Kiriyenko, it promised the residents of the occupied territories of Ukraine…

This is one of a series of interviews by Bloomberg Opinion columnists on how to solve the world’s most pressing policy challenges. It has been edited for length and clarity.Sarah Green Carmichael: The recent tragedies in Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX have underscored the plague of gun violence in the…

Monkeypox, a relative of smallpox, is spreading at unnerving rates and in unprecedented places, including the US. More than 1,500 cases have been registered in over 30 countries, including in at least 17 US states and the District of Columbia. However, the biggest worry for Americans is not the…

Meta Platforms Inc. has become a lightning rod for legal challenges in the US, from the FTC’s antitrust case to shareholder lawsuits alleging the company misled investors. Last week, eight complaints were filed against the company across the US, including allegations that young people who…

In India’s social media-obsessed polity, statements by ministers that do well online are closely watched — and their popularity can even push the government in new policy directions. Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar recently set Indian Twitter alight when he told off a mainly European…

The Covid-19 pandemic has been a protracted battle between a generation-defining virus and scientists working at a breakneck pace to fight it. Following the development of the remarkably effective first-generation Covid-19 vaccines, the virus made its response: More infectious variants have emerged…

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s moment of reckoning has arrived at last. After months of speculation and scandal that have soured his premiership, Mr. Johnson was forced on Monday to face a no-confidence vote, instigated by his increasingly restive and unhappy party. On a dramatic day in…