World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Nothing is more complicated than distressing neighbors. If they live near your home, you have no choice but to leave, moving to take up residence elsewhere, whatever the cost. However, what would you do if you lived next to an aggressive country, given that moving your country elsewhere isn’t…

There were no encouraging signs in the Labor Department’s report Thursday that showed the consumer price index surged a greater-than-forecast 7.5% in January from a year earlier, marking a fresh four-decade high. The gains were broad and deep, suggesting that inflation is becoming entrenched and…

There has been no shortage of explanations for the sudden, spectacular swoon in Facebook’s stock value last week. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said in an earnings report that its user growth had stalled. Young people, its most valuable demographic, keep spending time on TikTok, the irresistible…

In his lightning trip to Beijing last week Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a "Strategic Partnership" treaty with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. The event coincided with the 20th anniversary of another "Strategic Partnership" deal that he had signed in 2002 with the then US President…

While the world waits and waits to see whether Donald Trump will seek the presidency again, it is worth looking back at one of the enduring puzzles of his time in office: why he failed to achieve some of his key goals on immigration even when the opportunity to win seemed to be handed to him. …

Hate speech is reverberating from India to France, and victims of ethnic and sectarian violence are falling from Ethiopia to Myanmar. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya and Uyghurs have been expelled from their homes, and the Amharas and Muslims of India are being persecuted because of differences…

The visuals on the split screen this week made a striking contrast. On one side, the leaders of Germany and the US sat in front of the fireplace of the Oval Office, their body language cordial and relaxed, their messages coordinated. Facing the press later, Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor,…

How to respond to climate change is often postulated as the central question of our time, and while that’s undeniably important, I have another nomination: How will we stop our new and often splendid technologies from being weaponized against us? I use the term weaponization quite literally —…

For weeks, Spotify Technology SA has faced growing controversy over podcast host Joe Rogan centered around the harmful effects of Covid misinformation spread by some of his interview guests. Musicians starting with Neil Young asked to remove their music in protest. Rogan said he was simply letting…

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda’s commitment to massive stimulus is being tested. Such is the conviction that inflation and rates will jump around the world that even Japan, which has wrestled with deflation, is seen as a worthwhile bet. This week, yields on 10-year government bonds have…

A debate is brewing in Lebanon, most of it implicitly and some of it explicit, between those who believe the solution will only emerge from within and others who claim that it will only emerge, if it does, from the outside. The former have their eyes on the parliamentary elections that might be…

The BBC published a report on the Israeli intelligence infiltration of Iran that would help solve some of the mysteries that marred Israeli operations, which for a while remained without a clear explanation. Israel’s plots inside Iran would not have succeeded without a real penetration into the…