World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Facebook Inc. managed to distance itself from the most damning document leak in its history by renaming itself as Meta Platforms Inc. last week, but that doesn’t mean it won’t face greater regulatory scrutiny around the world. Where will it get the most heat? My bet is the UK. After blundering…

It started with an innocuous question from a town hall audience: A student asked President Biden whether he would vow to protect Taiwan from China. Mr. Biden’s response — a quick “yes,” then “yes” again when pressed by a CNN anchor — was instant breaking news globally. The White House almost…

Vaccines to protect young children from Covid-19 are likely soon on their way. The Food and Drug Administration has authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in children ages 5 to 11. If the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signs off, vaccinations could begin next…

On May 14, I went for a jog, amazed at my newfound freedom. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had just signed off on the vaccinated shedding their masks outdoors. In Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, on a cloudless spring day, I pondered what seemed like a miraculous paradigm shift: Apparently…

The 200 kilometers that separate the Lebanese coast and Cyprus is no longer merely distance. It is a hierarchical system that arranges the two countries’ choices. Let us imagine, for a moment, Cypriot youths deciding to behave as some Lebanese youths do, or the way they say they behave:…

After a long endurance - like ‘the patience of Ayoub’ - Saudi Arabia finally did it and decided to correct its relationship with the captive Lebanese state, summoning its ambassador from Beirut, and asking the Lebanese ambassador to leave Riyadh. The use of Ayoub’s metaphor came because of…

The Arabs have become angry with the Lebanese state and they have the right to be. They have for years demanded that it act like a state. For it to defend the rights of its citizens and to deal with brotherly Arab countries based on real interests and Arab agreements and international norms. The…

Pools and tools were hot sellers at the peak of Covid-19 as forced time at home made many people want to upgrade their living space. Some 18 months into the pandemic, case counts are trending down in the US; restaurants, movie theaters and concert venues are open again; and demand for domestic…

A "complex, coordinated and deliberate attack" was how John Kirby, the Pentagon press secretary, on Monday described a recent drone assault on a US military outpost in Syria that helps train local allies to fight ISIS. It was conducted with as many as five Iranian drones, launched by Iranian…

Lebanon has always been an arena of confrontations; used by the Nasserites for a certain period against the opposite Arab axis. After that, Lebanon came under the control of Palestinian militants who were serving the agenda of the two conflicting Baathist regimes in Syria and Iraq. After Israel…

Tesla Inc. seems to have gotten it right. The usually fantastical Elon Musk is set to give the electric vehicle market and its various players a reality check. At its third quarter earnings call, Tesla said it’s switching to a less expensive type of battery – the central part of the vehicle –…

I titled my medical misinformation podcast Follow the Science, because it was a popular catchphrase and because science is the best method humanity has found for sorting reliable knowledge from misinformation. But following science is no easy feat when there’s so much contention among professionals…