World News Insights: Opinion Articles

My family’s next car will almost certainly be electric — and that’s a problem, not necessarily for our family but for America. You see, we’re your basic highly educated big-city liberals. We have solar panels. For family burger night, we’ve gone meatless. Our current car is a Toyota Prius hybrid…

It’s hard to gloss over the record of Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, a man with film-star looks who manipulated the political machine, plundered the state to the tune of $10 billion, and was responsible for the deaths of thousands of his opponents and the torture of tens of thousands more. His…

Arcturus Therapeutics, a San Diego biotech company, may have just laid out a template for how to make vaccines for the next pandemic. Its new vaccine, which uses self-copying mRNA, appears to work well against current strains of Covid. It’s just that the product is coming in too late to matter in…

In July 2020, along with European officials and experts, I was asked to take part in a policy game. Convened by a German think tank, we were asked to play out what would happen if either Matteo Salvini or Marine Le Pen, the far-right leaders in Italy and France, came to power. We spent a few hours…

The question has become pressing. How will Europe’s first military conflict in the twenty-first century end, especially after three turning points? The first followed the meeting hosted by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin at a military base in Germany last week. The 40 countries pledged to ramp up…

British MP Neil Parish committed a horrific crime. Don’t go too far with your thoughts, dear reader. We are not in the terrible Middle East. He did not order the bombardment of an opposite neighborhood with heavy artillery. He didn’t plant an explosive device at the headquarters of the rival party…

The democracies opposed to Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine have been clear that, in Boris Johnson’s words, “Putin must fail.” But they haven’t defined failure. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss took a stab at it on Wednesday night, and it’s worth a closer look at what she said. Her 2022…

It rained one morning this week. I moved back to Texas last year, in part for the rainstorms. Here, it rains decisively, gloriously, like it really means it. It explodes, pounds, roars, thunders and then, suddenly, moves on. I stepped on my back porch, not wanting to miss the show. I sat, silent…

All journalists have complicated relationships with Twitter. For Black journalists, the relationship is particularly fraught. For Black female journalists, it’s truly treacherous. Journalists are in the business of conveying information. Some of it they find themselves. Other information they…

Since the beginning of the Iran nuclear negotiations, we have been hearing US and Western statements warning that time is running out. However, it’s been a year of talks without the signing a final agreement, and some of the terms of the 2015 deal have even approached their end without extension…

Lebanon is another Iraq, or maybe Iraq is another Lebanon, same thing. “Paralysis” and “impasse” are the two terms that describe the situation in Iraq, and Lebanon too. That comes 19 years after the US war and Saddam Hussein’s ouster from power. Failure to elect a president, and there are…

Call it poor judgment or bad luck, but India’s expansion of natural gas coverage to more than 90% of its population couldn’t have come at a worse time. In January, Adani Total Gas Ltd. and others won keenly contested licenses to add new areas to city gas networks; in February, Vladimir Putin…