World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Retirement isn’t always forever. Over the course of a business cycle, about 20 percent of people are working within 12 months after they first report being retired, according to calculations by Goldman Sachs. The question now is how many people who took early retirement because of the Covid-19…

Years ago, long before the iPhone, nobody needed a professional technician to switch out a phone battery. You simply slid open the back, inserted a replacement and the job was done. The first iPhone changed everything. Now you might need a screwdriver, nylon pry tools, a dental pick, a tweezer, a…

Forget about nuclear might. It’s time for the United States to talk to China about mutual vulnerability. It’s clear that Beijing is rapidly expanding its nuclear arsenal. Commercial satellite images suggest China is building more than 100 new intercontinental ballistic missile silos. Reporting…

Many things have changed since the departure of Jeremy Corbyn’s populist Leftist leadership of the British Labor Party, in 2020; following its crushing electoral defeat in 2019. Neutral observers and rational party members had expected such an outcome. Labor’s share of the vote dropped to 32% -…

During the epoch in which Arab nationalist rhetoric mixed with a form of leftism was dominant, many political statements and speeches began with a phrase warning us from “the vicious attack... on our nation and people...”. That is, according to popular folktales: the wolf came. The wolf attacked us…

Toshiba Corp is self-medicating with a dose of activism. Nice try, but the almost century-and-a-half-old company will need something a lot stronger. After a run of accounting scandals, a near brush with bankruptcy and scathing findings earlier this year that Toshiba had worked with the…

Is there any way this stand-off at the border between the European Union and Belarus can still end well? Put differently, how bad could it get? Unfortunately, the answer is: really bad. The scenarios include the death of the migrants, and even a wider war. A recap: The crisis was manufactured by…

Big numbers can lead to big misunderstandings, and the US Defense Department budget is almost unfathomably big. Hence some canards and exaggerations such as the $600 hammer and $125 billion in waste. Most of confusion stems from the opacity of the Pentagon contracting process, which is also pretty…

In April, scientists discovered an asteroid that had a roughly 1 in 2,500 chance of colliding with Earth in six months’ time. As the weeks passed, and observations improved, they determined that the space rock — perhaps 2,200 feet across — was on target for central Europe, potentially putting a…

Two opinions emerge from the recent Lebanese crisis with the Gulf States. The first, which is generally that of the concerned Gulf governments, says that the Lebanese must confront the hegemony of the Hezbollah militia, which is hijacking the government’s decision and using the country within a…

Human sufferings in one part of the world cause chain reaction of events beyond the borders. Among many other things, they lead to political crises between countries and even carry the risk of direct conflict. When in 2020, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko was re-elected, opponents…

Amazon.com Inc. won a crucial court case to halt billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s planned $3.4 billion purchase of an indebted Indian retailer, a big boost to the global e-commerce giant’s ambitions of dominating the country’s $1 trillion retail market. On Friday, a two-judge bench of India’s Supreme…