World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The new scientific evidence that catastrophic impacts of climate change are accelerating fast were not enough to garner general acceptance of the strong climate plan launched by the European Union last month. Those plans were followed by President Joe Biden’s announcement that the share of carbon…

The Ennahda scandal was recently exposed; they had contracted American lobbying firms in an effort to save what remains of their rubble and salvage the attempts to breathe life into the party by applying internal and external pressure…Per the US Department of Justice, which mandates that companies…

A pervasive myth floating around social media holds that lots of people can’t be vaccinated, or shouldn’t be, or are ineligible due to medical conditions. Even the mainstream media sometimes gives us that impression. A recent New York Times opinion essay, for example, proclaimed that in addition to…

With the delta variant surging throughout the US, Biden administration chief medical adviser Anthony Fauci has advocated for more testing — including for the vaccinated. More testing is essential, but how we test is important, too. The US is testing fewer people than it did in previous Covid…

What difference could a few thousand US troops possibly make to the outcome of a decades-long war in a broken country? That question constituted President Joe Biden’s central argument for withdrawing from the conflict in Afghanistan. Now, unfortunately, we have our answer. Those troops were the…

What’s the cost of a good suit these days? At NASA, apparently, it’s about $500 million. That’s according to a new audit of the space agency’s 14-year quest to design and build a new generation of spacesuits. Without major changes to the program, the new duds will take at least four more years to…

At home, my mother lit a kerosene lamp after she had been without any electricity for 10 hours. Government-supplied electricity is close to nonexistent; as for the private sector, as in the generator mafia, they have stopped providing electricity to their clients after fuel became scarce, with the…

Right after the Tokyo Olympics came to an end, the season of diplomatic tours for Japanese politicians started. Japanese Foreign Minister MOTEGI Toshimitsu will make a diplomatic tour of the Middle East from Sunday August 15 through August 24. He will visit 7 capitals of the countries of the…

At a Florida port, the US Coast Guard drops off $1.4 billion worth of cocaine and marijuana seized in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. The haul, the fruit of nearly 30 incidents and boarding operations by the US, Canada and the Netherlands, contains nearly 60,000 pounds of cocaine alone. No,…

For much of the pandemic, Covid-19 posed the biggest risk to adults — particularly the elderly and those with preexisting medical conditions — with children making up a small subset of the severely affected. But the emergence of the highly transmissible delta variant has increased infections and…

The White House will soon be sending invitations to world leaders for its “Summit of Democracy,” currently scheduled for Dec. 9 and 10. It promises to be a grand and noble affair, with participants working to “build a shared foundation for global democratic renewal.” So it’s worth asking if…

The past four decades in which the Khomeinist ideology has dominated Iranian state structures, a new breed of “Iranologists” has emerged in Western academic and media circles. Most old “Iranologists” saw Iran as a glorious but long dead civilization distinguished by religious tolerance, ethnic…