World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Inflation is often viewed as an economic phenomenon, with mostly economic effects. Policy makers today worry about what inflation will do to the housing market; they express concern about government borrowing costs. They might note changes in individual economic behavior: a shopper pinching pennies…

It looks as if Twitter Inc. will sell itself to Elon Musk for $43 billion, which would make the deal one of the largest leveraged buyouts in Wall Street history and give Tesla Inc.’s steward a powerful social media perch. The math is sketchy, however, as are Musk’s intentions. Both of those…

Syria has historically been associated with the idea of unity- just as Algeria has been associated with the idea of revolution, Palestine with resistance, and Lebanon with freedom. The late Algerian President, Ahmed Ben Bella, is said to have claimed, when the Syrians welcoming him in Damascus…

The employee was in a state of panic. He couldn’t believe the incoming sentences. He read them again and again. The president must be awakened no matter how tired he is. Information poured from the intelligence and the chief general. The master of the White House woke up to the horrific news. It is…

The return of inflation for the first time in my lifetime also means the return of difficult short-term tradeoffs in economic policy for the first time in the 21st century. To put it another way: The era of free-lunch politics is over — and it’s Republicans, even more than Democrats, who will have…

For the past decade, artificial intelligence has been used to recognize faces, rate creditworthiness and predict the weather. At the same time, increasingly sophisticated hacks using stealthier methods have escalated. The combination of AI and cybersecurity was inevitable as both fields sought…

In 2017, France bucked the populist trend by voting for Emmanuel Macron against europhobic Marine Le Pen. In 2022, it has done so again – just as Slovenia looks set to eject its nationalist leader. An overwhelming display of pro-EU values? Not quite. Macron’s lead is narrower than last time –…

The Wall Street Journal published a story about Saudi-American relations that can only be described as part of the organized disinformation campaign to vilify Saudi Arabia. Some might say that it is just a story, and it is not worth the commenting. But this is not true. We must be aware of…

Abu Dhabi recently pledged Environmental targets for the coming fifty years, in conjunction with the UAE Centennial in 2071, which was announced earlier to mark the creation of the state. This triggered memories of how the ultimate aspiration of Arab environmental activists less than twenty years…

Savers are about to learn one painful and one surprising lesson about interest rates and banks. First, just because the Federal Reserve is raising rates doesn’t mean the rate investors earn on their cash will rise as much — if at all. In fact, the financial repression in the form of zero rates…

The early days of Covid in 2020 brought a cascade of cancellations of big-name business conventions including the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the North American International Auto Show in Detroit and the South by Southwest technology and music gathering in Austin, Texas. The expectation was…

It seems that in the Arab world, we are constantly on the lookout against inherited religious discourse and literature on the relationship between religions, us and the other etc… This is evident from the issues kept under wraps for fear of upending social cohesion and controversy. This creates…