World News Insights: Opinion Articles

It seems that the doors have been closed to the Muslim Brotherhood [MB]. Even its alternative capital, Istanbul, no longer welcomes Brotherhood fugitives. Following in the footsteps of Egypt and Sudan, Tunisia announces the death of the MB’s dominion. Tunisia, which was the first gateway for the…

As countries around the world attempt to reopen their borders, officials have come up with an ever-changing list of labyrinthine polices to allow travel. A range of entry restrictions have been deployed, from home quarantines for vaccinated adults to spending up to three weeks in government…

England, we are told, is free. The government has lifted the country’s remaining Covid restrictions — on social distancing, on face masks, on numbers for gatherings, the lot — effectively leaving protection from the coronavirus to vaccinations and, er, the goddess of chance. (Scotland, Wales and…

We were just getting used to the idea of a global economic recovery, an expansion replete with eye-popping numbers seen once every few decades. Too bad it may have already peaked. Trouble appears to be lurking just beneath the surface of the International Monetary Fund's forecasts showing a hale…

Republicans who have been hoping that former President Donald Trump will somehow just fade away got a glimmer of hope Tuesday. In a House special election in Texas with two Republicans competing in a runoff, the Trump-endorsed candidate was defeated. Now, measuring the effects of endorsements…

What ever happened within a few months that made it possible to overcome the obstacles preventing the formation of a new Lebanese cabinet? Is it possible that compassion just happened to overwhelm the previously cruel hearts, so they reacted positively to the pain of the hungry and the sick who are…

In the axis of resistance’s lexicon, terms mean the opposite of what they are supposed to. The matter has become comical when it comes to day-to-day rhetoric, especially the terms victory and defeat. Recent developments enrich this ridiculousness and feed it. How so? A few days before the…

The damage from the opioid crisis extends beyond the harms of addiction and overdose. Some doctors say it also hurts people with chronic pain by derailing research intended to help them. The need to help people suffering chronic pain seduced some researchers into believing misleading claims of…

Representative Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican, is a controversial former police officer and car dealer. The “Cajun John Wayne” is neither a virologist nor an epidemiologist, and he has disclosed that he contracted Covid-19 (or what he calls “the CCP biological attack weaponized virus”) for…

The surge in the Covid-19 delta variant worldwide is raising concerns about the robustness of what has already been an uneven and uncertain global economic recovery. The extent of this worry speaks to medical and economic policy issues, dealing both with factors that we seem to know a lot about and…

What would it sound like if a country were getting ready to shatter the long period of great-power peace humanity has enjoyed since 1945? It might sound a lot like the ominous noises coming from Beijing today. Recent pronouncements by the Chinese Communist Party have had a distinctly martial…

From the US to the European Union, governments are clearly uneasy with the pervasive power of Big Tech: The influence of their social media platforms on elections, the security of the vast amount of consumer data they store, and the exploitation of gig economy workers who don’t enjoy health…