World News Insights: Opinion Articles

In the never-ending quest to make the world a better place, a new idea is beginning to draw more attention: educational migration. If you want to assist someone in a poor country, why not spend extra money and help them get a good college education in the West? Part of the appeal of educational…

The annual World Happiness Report came out this month and, sure enough, the usual rich Nordic and northern European countries clustered at the top. Finland and Denmark ranked as the happiest and second-happiest corners of the planet, and the top eight were all in northern Europe. Afghanistan,…

As the nuclear deal inches toward revival, the Houthi attacks on airports and oil depots in the Saudi cities of Jizan and Jeddah in the last few days are a call for consideration, not wonder. Aside from the question of Iran’s aggressive behavior in general, why does Tehran demand that Washington…

All wars end with political settlements. As the war in Ukraine drags on, some analysts argue that the country agreeing to political neutrality would serve as the basis for a peace pact with Russia. Yet the devil of any settlement is in the details, and in this case, those details are devilish…

Investors shouldn’t get overly excited about stock splits. In most cases, they don’t amount to much. After the close of regular trading earlier in March, Amazon.com shares surged as much as 10% after the internet giant announced plans for a 20-for-1 split. The company also said it would buy back…

On the day Russia launched its all-out attack on Ukraine, Svitlana Krakovska was holed up in her home city of Kyiv, working feverishly to finish a report. As leader of the Ukrainian delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), she and scientists around the world were dotting…

What role can China play in de-escalating the war between Russia and Ukraine? Is Beijing’s relationship with Russiaheightening global tensions and what, if anything, can the US do to lower the temperature? President Xi Jinping has not been cheering his counterpart Vladimir Putin’s invasion of…

In 2001, after the attacks of 9/11, Western solidarity was at its peak. But the tight hugs were to say goodbye; that became evident two years later, with the war on Iraq. The dispute between the US, which had declared and waged the war, and the French and the Germans, who opposed it, cut deep. At…

Is the West partially responsible for what Ukraine is enduring right now? Have the successive leaders after the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of the Soviet Union failed in leading? Have they harshly or dismissively dealt with the wounds of the Soviet Union's "orphans"? Are they treating…

Amid the monthslong roller coaster of updates about the efficacy and anticipated availability of a Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine for younger children, we have a new development: Moderna announced this week that it will submit the results of a two-dose vaccine trial for children ages 6 months to…

President Vladimir Putin’s bloody assault on Ukraine, nearly a month in, still seems inexplicable. Rockets raining down on apartment buildings and fleeing families are now Russia’s face to the world. What could induce Russia to take such a fateful step, effectively electing to become a pariah state…

“Russia’s aggressive actions constitute a threat to Euro-Atlantic security,” NATO leaders stated in their Summit communique in Brussels on 14 June 2021. And the same Heads of State and Government declared in their statement after NATO’s extraordinary Summit in Brussels on 24 March 2022: “We met…