World News Insights: Opinion Articles

I’ve been talking to parents about pandemic stress for nearly two years, and I haven’t heard the level of despair that I’ve heard over the past week since the spring of 2020. Some of the words parents used to describe their January 2022: “devastating,” “disgusting” and “at a breaking point.” The…

On Friday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments about two of the Biden administration’s emergency Covid-19 regulations, including a vaccine or test mandate for large employers and a vaccine requirement for some health workers. At stake in the cases, brought by business groups and Republican…

The world “colonialism” no longer applies to any place in the world the way it applies to Russia. It is colonialism in the crudest and most primitive sense. It is forbidden for a country to neighbor Russia and be free at the same time. To be safe while neighboring Russia, sovereignty must be given…

The Bank of England is trapped in a policy box of its own making, having dithered and delayed on whether and when to withdraw pandemic stimulus. Although inflation is now roaring away, it shouldn’t try to make up for lost time. Fiscal tightening on the way reduces the urgency for a monetary…

At some point after he became chief surgeon in Napoleon’s army, Dominique Jean Larrey started walking across blood-soaked battlefields to pick out those among the wounded who could still be saved, usually by instant amputation of limbs. In time, he developed a system of sorting and separating —…

January 2022 is one of the worst possible times to get Covid-19. That’s not only because hospitals are dangerously full, but because after nearly two years of gradually learning more about SARS-CoV-2, the omicron variant has thrust scientists and doctors back into a state of ignorance and guessing…

While the rest of the world is struggling to live with Covid, there are signs that China is determined to stick to a zero-tolerance approach to the pandemic. In late December, it locked down Xian, a city of 13 million in northwestern China. The quarantine measures were so draconian some residents…

The Cold War ended with the fall of the Soviet Union. The so-called “Arab-Israeli conflict” has taken complex paths since the cease-fire agreements between Syria and Egypt on the one hand and Israel on the other hand, following the 1973 war, all the way to the Abrahamic Agreement between the UAE …

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., owner of the Grand Theft Auto game franchise, announced plans Monday to acquire mobile gaming leader Zynga Inc. for $11 billion in cash and stock. News of the proposed merger has spooked some investors, who sent Take-Two’s shares down 14% Monday on the belief…

For those of us who aren’t professional traders, the closest we ever get to a real-time commodities market is an airline booking site. Watching prices flicker out of existence before we can make a transaction is an infuriating experience that surely contributes to the discontent that many feel…

Glenn Hubbard tried to dissuade President George W. Bush from putting tariffs on imported steel. As chairman of Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers, he told the president in 2001 that the harm from tariffs suffered by consumers of steel would vastly outweigh the benefits to steel makers. He argued…

Alex Jones deserved it. Donald Trump really deserved it. And now Marjorie Taylor Greene? She double deserves it. Like it or not, the toxic trio of the social media age, all of them promiscuous Twitter rule breakers, have now all been banned from the social media platform, as well as garnered…