World News Insights: Opinion Articles

A breach by Chinese hackers of almost a dozen targets in Taiwan looked, on the surface, like just another ransomware attack: infiltrate a network, encrypt a ton of files, lock the owners out of their own systems, and wait to be paid. But this one was different for what it didn’t contain, and…

As we collectively hurtle into the era of climate change, international relations as we’ve known them for almost four centuries will change beyond recognition. This shift is probably inevitable, and possibly even necessary. But it will also cause new conflicts, and therefore war and suffering. …

A Serb strongman, who for years exploited ethnonationalist feelings to claim more power, publicly pledges to break his country apart, threatening to set off cascading conflict. The West, distracted by its own problems, barely notices. No, that’s not Yugoslavia in 1991. It’s Bosnia and…

A few weeks of improving trends is giving hope to Roblox Corp.’s investors that the worst of the gaming platform’s post-pandemic slowdown is now behind it. They might want to hit pause on that notion. Roblox — known by parents everywhere as the cultural phenomenon whose virtual playgrounds have…

Hype is never far away from cryptocurrencies. Punters taking public transport or navigating social media are bombarded daily with enticing advertising and billboards dangling the next big coin, while self-proclaimed experts and gurus offer hot investing tips before the inevitable tired disclaimer: …

When the issue of the need to confront the extensive role that Hezbollah plays both at home and in the region is raised, a clearly harmful matter impacting internal stability and Lebanon having normal relations with its neighbors and the rest of the world, one hears: this is a Lebanese party whose…

It was supposed to be a five-year «breathing space» in which two belligerent neighbors would resolve their disputes and shape a durable peace with help from their big altruistic neighbor. And yet, just months after the “good news” was spread by all concerned, Armenia and (former Soviet republic)…

No one knows when the pandemic will end. But the worst of it may be over for the United States after this winter. For good reasons — growing vaccine eligibility, boosters and new antiviral treatments — and bad — high levels of prior infections — it’s possible the ongoing Delta surge could be the…

As Democrats haggle over the future of the controversial state and local tax deduction, it’s worth remembering that the current cap of $10,000 isn’t adjusted for inflation. That was by design when Republicans rewrote the tax rules in 2017 and removed what had previously been an unlimited SALT…

There’s no way to dress up the terrible 12 months Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has faced since the aborted debut of its fintech division. But let’s imagine for a moment what might have happened had Ant Group Co.’s dual listings gone ahead, if only to consider where the Chinese e-commerce giant’s…

Most often, Palestinian ethics has opted to use the slogan of liberation rather than that of independence, and whenever it opted for the latter, it was a matter linked to the decision. During a stage of broad and accelerating revolutionary escalation, one of whose most vital ground was the…

It looks as though the White House may have finally figured out the obvious: It’s time to roll out Covid-19 booster shots to everyone, ASAP. Medical specialists are still debating the extent to which boosters are strictly necessary, given that one- and two-dose vaccine regimens seem to be…