World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Singapore had the perfect opportunity to lure away billions of dollars of wealth from Hong Kong, whose isolationist approach to Covid-19 and a Beijing-imposed national security law are sapping confidence in the financial center. Yet the Asian city-state is moving in the opposite direction. Its…

The Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, was correct on Wednesday when he said in a news conference that the unemployment rate is “just about as low as it’s been in 50 years.” But that does not necessarily mean, as Powell also said, that “the American economy is very strong and well positioned…

If you just followed news reports on Ukraine, you might think that the war has settled into a long, grinding and somewhat boring slog. You would be wrong. Things are actually getting more dangerous by the day. For starters, the longer this war goes on, the more opportunity for catastrophic…

The Supreme Leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-Il, had no alternative to the nuclear option to protect his regime. By 1994, the year he took power and succeeded his father, Pyongyang had lost its Soviet protection, and the ideological underpinning of the North Korean regime, Juche, was threatened from…

What do you do when you have called a victory parade but have no victory to parade? This is the question that Russian President Vladimir Putin faces as his faction factory prepares to churn out a gigantic street show in Moscow with Tsarist eagles with varvels bearing Volodya’s coat of arms. …

To understand the latest incarnation of the colossal crypto grifts that continue to engulf the internet, I suppose we should start with all those bored apes, because how could we not? I don’t mean real apes — little of what’s in this column is about stuff you could call in any tangible sense …

If the first casualty of war is truth, then the corollary in Ukraine is that information is the first battlefield. That was where the war began, in early 2022, weeks before Vladimir Putin sent the first rockets, armored vehicles and troops into Ukraine, when he claimed that the massive buildup…

Nothing makes you appreciate air-conditioning like high summer in India. Here in Delhi, temperatures are running over 100 degrees for much of the day, with two full months still to go before the cooling monsoon rains arrive. Unfortunately, just as everyone decided to crank up their ACs or at least…

The objective of the upcoming Lebanese parliamentary elections is nothing less than tightening the country's ties with the "axis of resistance" and its project for the region. Several impediments stand in the way, which raises the specter of the electoral process being sabotaged at the last minute…

Growing up in Minnesota, I was a huge fan of the local NHL team at the time, the North Stars, and they had a sportscaster, Al Shaver, who gave me my first lesson in politics and military strategy. He ended his shows with this sign-off: “When you lose, say little. When you win, say less. Goodnight…

There is one way a married couple is supposed to handle money: jointly. Well, that’s how it used to be — after all, women needed a male co-signer to access credit until 1974. Today’s married couples have more options when it comes to how to manage their money. The classic of being completely…

I started my Twitter account in June 2008. And after 14 years on the platform, I have a lot of feelings about it. Twitter is meaningful to me, while constantly leaving me wondering why, exactly, that is the case. Loads of other people evidently have opinions about Twitter, too, particularly…