World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Australia is joining the list of countries refusing to provide a home to the proceeds of foreign political graft. If the changes are to do any good, it’s going to have to take a harder look at the corruption in its own backyard, too. The country will introduce laws this year to impose Magnitsky…

Sometimes I remember how I tried to comfort my children when they encountered a setback or were disappointed that a dream they were nurturing had not yet come true. “Life’s a long process,” I would say, echoing my father’s reassurances. “There’s still time.” But that was long ago, when I was…

TikTok made a big announcement last year. The company would open a Transparency and Accountability Center, giving the public a rare glimpse into how it works, including its algorithm. These AI-driven systems are usually black boxes, but TikTok was committed to “leading the way when it comes to…

Rising geopolitical tensions with China and the pandemic’s economic disruptions are prompting the US government to shorten supply chains and bring manufacturing closer to home. In this quest to promote “friend-shoring,” the US can have few better partners than its southern neighbors, which enjoy…

Nothing better exemplifies the gaping political divide in this country than our embarrassing and asinine vaccine response. Donald Trump’s scorched-earth political strategy has fooled millions of Americans into flirting with death. And now thousands are once again dying for it. Almost from the…

The August 4 port crime, whose first anniversary went by last week, is the biggest and most dangerous of a series of various crimes that have been and continue to be committed against the country during the “strong reign,” which has been surpassing all precedents. There is no disagreement that…

The countries bordering Afghanistan are preparing to coexist with a devastating civil war on its territory after the completion of the withdrawal of US forces, or with Afghanistan residing in the grip of the Taliban movement. Nothing suggests that Kabul will be immune to the movement. President…

The US economic recovery is being threatened by the Covid-19 delta variant. Increasing vaccination rates is the most important thing the US can do to sustain the economy over the next few months. Beyond that, however, full recovery might require creating new vaccines against delta and other…

Misinformation, or even mere scientific confusion, can cause a lot of trouble when it appears to come out of the Centers for Disease Control. That is what happened when a leaked CDC document helped send a misleading message that vaccinated people spread the new delta variant as readily as the…

The pandemic catapulted Zoom Video Communications Inc. from a scrappy upstart into a more than $115 billion video-conferencing behemoth, central to the lives of millions of remote workers and other socially distant users. Now, as Covid-19 vaccination rates allow for more of a return to normal, the…

At first glance, it seems a strange or contrived comparison, as there is no link, neither in terms of context nor content, between the Cairo Agreement signed in 1969 and the blast that went off a year and a few days ago. Sponsored by Gamal Abdel Nasser in all his glory, the Cairo Agreement…

Global investors are shocked to have discovered that China is run by Communists. Shares of online education companies collapsed last week after the government all but outlawed the industry, and internet behemoth Tencent Holdings Ltd. shed more than $50 billion of value at one point on Tuesday after…