World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Post-infection immunity might be a strange topic for political strife, but it touches on Covid vaccine mandates and whether those who’ve had the virus should be exempt. And so when publications such as The Hill run headlines such as “CDC Finally Recognizing Natural Immunity – Legislators should…

Just days ago, Vladimir Putin seemed on the verge of the unthinkable in Ukraine, having massed 130,000 troops on the border. Embassies withdrew staff from Kyiv, and Washington warned of an immediate threat. Now, the Russian leader is sagely supporting diplomatic engagement. Official footage shows…

"A specter is haunting France, the specter of Islam!" This is the message that, with variations of intonation and nuance, comes from almost all of the dozen or so declared candidates in France’s forthcoming presidential election. This reminds those of us who witnessed the 20-yearlong Brexit…

US Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler has repeatedly said the crypto markets are like the “Wild West,” with insufficient protections for investors. A presidential working group has cautioned that some crypto platforms were allowing investors to make risky high-leverage bets…

Gold isn’t behaving quite as you’d expect right now. US interest rates have risen by half a percentage point so far this year, as measured by the yield on 10-year government debt. That’s typically bad news for precious metal. About two-fifths of gold demand comes from private investors and…

The constitutional deadline is now respected! This is the most popular phrase in Lebanon. It is repeated by diplomatic and political representatives, journalists and citizens. We are less than three months away from Thursday, May 10, the date set for parliamentary elections! No previous…

The Russian Defense Ministry’s announcement on Tuesday that troops were beginning to relocate to their permanent bases after drills on the Ukrainian border is not yet the denouement of the crisis that Russian President Vladimir Putin created and then US President Joe Biden amplified with alarmist…

The most notable record at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics won't be recorded by a skier or skater. Instead it'll be set by NBCUniversal. When the flame goes dark, the US network will likely have recorded the most poorly viewed Winter Games in history. Covid, half-empty stadiums, human-rights…

The stock market has lately soured on the technology industry. Stock prices of many of the largest companies are down this year, some slightly — shares of Apple and Google have fallen more than 6 percent — and some stupendously: Facebook's parent company, Meta, and Netflix have lost about a third…

Imagine a dystopian Olympics. Maybe it would have athletes skiing on fake snow down parched slopes. Robots mixing cocktails, making dumplings and disinfecting the air. Events staffed by workers not in sportswear but hazmat suits. Instead of a stadium you are eager to sit in, a bubble you cannot…

The news from Afghanistan is genuinely heartbreaking; it is an affront to everything human in contemporary human beings. Loaves of bread are, in the literal sense, lacking. Hoards of people are flocking to embassies as they search for a way out of their country. However, only four and a half months…

While our region was expecting an active European role in the Iranian nuclear file in Vienna, in order to “rationalize” the American rush, as well as to assume a pivotal task in the process of soothing the crisis in some Arab countries, such as Libya or Lebanon, it became clear to us that the Old…