World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Pascal Soriot knows how to make a headline. The AstraZeneca Plc chief executive officer gave a rare interview to the BBC to mark the opening of a billion-pound ($1.3 billion) research facility in Cambridge. But he couldn’t resist a little plug for his vaccine, too. “If you look at the UK, there…

Barack Obama’s decision to reject every form of intervention in Syria, limiting himself to fighting ISIS, revealed his weak sense of moral responsibility. However, and this is what concerns us here, his decision didn’t demonstrate political or strategic ingenuity either. Upon assessing some of the…

When President Joe Biden took office, he vowed to pursue “extreme competition” with China as part of a historic struggle between democracy and autocracy. Now, his administration is saying that it wants “healthy” competition, in which mutually accepted “guardrails” prevent Washington and Beijing…

On Friday morning, after a night of insomnia fueled by worries about raising children in a collapsing society, I opened my eyes, started reading about efforts by Wisconsin Republicans to seize control of the state’s elections, then paused to let my tachycardiac heartbeat subside. Marinating in the…

Last weekend I wrote about how the landscape of 2021 is suddenly letting Republicans play politics on “easy” mode, by giving them back the kind of issues that built Ronald Reagan’s majority in the 1970s and 1980 — rising inflation, rising violent crime, a Cold War rivalry (Chinese rather than…

For decades, the chip-making giant Intel reigned as one of the most technically advanced companies in Silicon Valley. It was Intel’s co-founder Gordon Moore who famously predicted that computer chips would keep getting unimaginably more powerful. And it was Intel’s products, the x86 line of…

Will the former prime minister and leader of Al Mustaqbal Movement, Saad Hariri, abandon the political life? This question has preoccupied Lebanese politicians and the media for weeks, as such news, if confirmed, will be the most major political transformation in the history of the Second…

To snag some of this year’s Black Friday deals, a car won’t do you much good — try an ocean liner. Plenty of would-be holiday gifts are still at sea, caught up in a mess of global shipping delays. But shoppers who can’t find what they’re looking for this week may have another savings event to look…

Lobbyists for Samsung Electronics Co. deserve to drink magnums of the finest champagne after pulling off a fabulous deal. Taylor, Texas won the the right to host the South Korean giant’s latest semiconductor factory, Bloomberg News reported Tuesday. Locations in Phoenix and Upstate New York…

When I got the invitation from the French ambassador for a black-tie gala called “Améthyste,” I wondered what that name meant. Was it a promotional party for a French jewelry company or maybe a new perfume? I didn’t go to the Thursday fête, because I’m studying for a master’s at Columbia…

A year after President Biden’s election, we’re beginning to see the contours of his foreign policy: He has something for everyone. For balance-of-power realists, he has countered China by working much more closely with “the Quad” — India, Australia, Japan and the United States — and creating a new…

On this day, November 22nd, the Lebanese commemorate their independence from France in 1943. It is the last commemoration of Michel Aoun’s term, and this year also marks the end of the first hundred years since the establishment of Greater Lebanon was announced in 1920. It is perhaps the worst…