World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Against the backdrop of the Arab Consultative Ministerial Council, what message will Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib deliver Saturday, to his Kuwaiti counterpart, Dr. Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah? What will be the response to the Arab-Gulf-international message which Dr. Al-Sabah…

Boris Johnson’s leadership may have become a laughingstock thanks to “Partygate” breaches of lockdown rules at Downing Street, but the UK is being taken more seriously in one part of Europe than it has been for years — Ukraine. Today, the most clear-eyed response to Russia’s propaganda offensive…

Novak Djokovic isn’t the only one missing from this year’s Australian Open in Melbourne. Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai is also absent from a tournament where she’s played at least 15 times since 2005. But it is event organizers who, perhaps unintentionally, have shone a light on a problem many…

Adrian Wooldridge argues that Britain is at the forefront of a discussion about the future of the corporation and spotlights the Better Business Act as evidence. Although he offered a compelling reminder of the central role that the UK has played in the development of company law, his reading of…

Peloton Interactive Inc.’s troubles aren’t just down to self-inflicted wounds. There is mounting evidence that consumers are desperate to get back to the gym. But two years of exercising in the kitchen have reshaped the fitness industry. While Peloton must appeal to customers who want to feel…

Ninety-year-old Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissenger was asked what keeps him up at night. He didn’t hesitate: “I worry about China. I worry that we won’t manage to integrate it into the international order.” The bad news is that it is not just China that wants out of the global liberal…

A cautionary saying in oil circles about the possibility of peak demand holds that “the stone age didn’t end for a lack of stones.” When it comes to electric vehicles, there is more concern now that the electric age will fizzle for a lack of lithium. Lithium-ion batteries power smartphones,…

By the time you read this article, Russian troops may have entered Ukraine or even captured its capital Kiev in a Blitzkrieg that would have made Field Marshal von Paulus green with envy. Or, maybe you would witness nothing but more sabre rattling by Vladimir Putin. The two contrasting…

Crypto prices are tumbling. By one account, crypto assets have lost about $1.35 trillion globally since November, with some falling in price by 80% or more. Many investors feel a real pinch. The good news is that the global economy, or for that matter American society, is not poorer. And thus…

Emmanuel Macron has spent much of his presidency trying to get the European Union to speak the language of hard power in a more hostile world. A smorgasbord of EU defense plans, including a 5,000-strong deployment force by 2025, have accompanied visions of a bloc less dependent on the US and…

In the wake of Justice Stephen Breyer’s rumored retirement, an odd controversy has swirled around President Joe Biden’s campaign pledge to appoint a Black woman to the first vacancy. Critics have compared the promise to college admission quotas; supporters have pointed out that President Ronald…

Civil war is the magic word that should startle the Lebanese and awaken them to the fact that what awaits them in the months ahead will be miles worse than the crises they have seen so far. Facing these warnings of war are predictions that the corrupt ruling clique is on the brink and a new, civil…