World News Insights: Opinion Articles

“I had to get out of America. It has gotten so ugly, so dark and my pessimism had grown so high that I needed to do something different.” That’s how pollster Frank Luntz, currently a visiting fellow at the Center for Policy Studies, explained his decision to spend a summer in Britain studying…

Joe Biden’s approval rating fell to its lowest point during his presidency last month, and he exits the July 4 holiday weekend at just 51.9% approval, close to that June low (as usual, I’m using the excellent FiveThirtyEight estimate, based on an adjusted average of all the reputable polls). At the…

Thursday, July 8, is a critical day for millions of Syrian civilians in the northwest part of the country. The United Nations Security Council is expected to vote on extending the United Nations humanitarian operation that delivers aid across the Turkish border at Bab al-Hawa into Idlib province. …

The centralized software management model is once again under a spotlight after hackers exploited a vulnerability at one vendor, leaving hundreds of companies as victims. Yet it’s this very approach to handling sprawling workforces that has likely prevented even more attacks and makes global…

More than half a million Americans die of cancer each year, matching the toll of Covid-19 to date on an annual basis and making it one of the nation's biggest killers. But now there’s hope that a simple blood test could change that by detecting tumors earlier when they’re easier to treat. …

Apple Inc. is feeling the heat. Regulators and lawmakers are circling the technology giant, threatening to crack down on its business practices and, conceivably, challenge the fundamental nature of how its mobile platform works. The company, naturally, has mounted a spirited defense claiming its…

Germany’s biggest tabloid, Bild, has reported a major hacking attack from Russia on the German banking system and naming “the state Russian hackers from the ‘Fancy Lazarus’ group” as the culprits. If the attack really took place — there is no official confirmation so far — it will, as usual, be…

What happened recently at the Tunisian parliament is infuriating. A parliamentarian by the Name of Sahbi Samara suddenly leaped from his seat. Confident in his stride, he walked towards his colleague, Free Constitutional Party leader Abir Moussi. He took a few steps and then slapped her, hard…

No wonder the world is preoccupied with the centenary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party. It is not simple for Mao Zedong’s bloc to blow out this candle while still in power, even though the last century has crushed many empires, regimes, ideas, and parties. We are talking about a…

Tempers were flaring at a recent summit of the European Union when Mark Rutte, prime minister of the Netherlands, looked straight at Viktor Orban, his Hungarian counterpart, and said what everybody was thinking: If you don’t share our values, you should take Hungary out of the EU. Rutte’s…

The list of what e-commerce platforms aren’t allowed to do in India has been growing for some time, but the latest prohibition on flash sales has simply gone too far. If the rules get implemented, the entire business model of Amazon.com Inc. and Walmart Inc. could come unstuck before their…

True patriotism, especially of the American variety, comes from questioning the history you were born into. As July 4 came, we should all keep this in mind as we question some of the fundamentals of the American story — and we should ask ourselves not whether these reconsiderations are justified,…