World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The economic trauma of the Ukraine War is only beginning: Energy shocks, food-supply disruption and commodity shortages will have growing impact as the conflict persists. The war, moreover, is just part of an accelerating geo-economic realignment. The golden age of globalization, when countries…

Those betting on the election results changing the political landscape in Lebanon or the country’s political trajectory, were met with a swift response from Hezbollah officials and its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. Through what they considered an objective reading of the results, it is…

While we no longer worry as much about the severity of Covid, there are questions about whether the pandemic has left us more exposed to other serious illnesses. Massachusetts officials reported a rare case of a virus related to smallpox, called monkeypox, on Wednesday. A small number of cases has…

It was only a couple of weeks ago that the general election in Lebanon made the headlines in Tehran’s official media. “Supreme Guide” Ali Khamenei had labeled the election as “a referendum on the Resistance Front”, a coalition of Iran-controlled groups that have struck roots in Iraq, Syria, north…

One of the most striking things about the Russo-Ukrainian war of 2022 is the variety of outcomes that both sides could declare as a victory — and the scarcity of outcomes that can last. What will determine the success of any declaration is its intended audience. What matters in the real world,…

Policy makers are fighting the devil in front of them rather than the goblin lurking around the corner. After years of wishing for and trying to conjure faster inflation, the overwhelming focus now is on slowing things down. A global slump seems increasingly possible — if such a downturn isn’t here…

The attacks and incursions by settlers protected by the occupation’s authorities on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Al Ibrahimi Mosque, settlers holding religious rituals in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, and escalating violence by the occupation forces against the Palestinian population. The deliberate…

In March 2020, just weeks after the pandemic had been declared and the world cast into crisis, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, went on CNN to prepare Americans for what he thought was the worst-case scenario. With about just 125,000 confirmed cases in the country at…

A silver lining to the inconvenience of a mild Covid-19 infection is that for most people it is followed by a honeymoon period — an idyllic time when the immune system is firing on all cylinders and preventing reinfection. But all good things must come to an end. At some point, the surge of…

Of the many diplomatic spats and snubs that summarize the dismal relations between the UK and its historic continental frenemy of France, one phrase sticks in the mind: “Prenez un grip, and donnez-moi un break.” The patronizing put-down by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, delivered in…

To listen to one of Australia’s most prominent politicians, you might be forgiven for thinking the pandemic began in Sydney, Melbourne or the national capital, Canberra. The political and administrative demands of the two-year war against Covid have deepened regional divides and challenged the…

The old and new Lebanons took down Hezbollah and its allies, especially the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM). The old and new Lebanons bore down on the party, together, simultaneously, and took them down during the latest elections. The old Lebanon, the Lebanon of religious sects, which can no…