World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The world is gearing up for a titanic battle over semiconductors. To secure its position in this most strategic of all industries, the US will have to weigh its strategy carefully and learn the lessons of the past. The right balance of support for both production and innovation will distinguish the…

"Follow the science" has been a consistent refrain during the pandemic, and it's usually a core mandate of the Food and Drug Administration in evaluating medicines. But when it came to one of the agency's most consequential decisions — the approval Monday of Biogen Inc.'s controversial Alzheimer's…

I have news from the world of cryptocurrency: After many years of doubt and uncertainty, a killer app has finally been found. That’s why crypto prices, in spite of numerous plunges, have remained much higher than many skeptics expected. The core use case for crypto is called DeFi, a recently…

Yes, the consumer-price index on Thursday came in high. On the other hand, economists have been warning for some time that we should expect some real but transitory inflation this summer — and also that year-over-year numbers would be skewed by prices plunging last spring due to the pandemic. Yet…

If Toshiba Corp. tried to bully hedge funds through the government, that’s a bad look all around. The only parties who come off well are the activists the company allegedly aimed to suppress. The Japanese company — beset by a series of troubles over the past decade, from an accounting scandal to…

GameStop Inc. has been best known lately for the excitement it has generated with the Reddit crowd, and as one of the first of the big meme-stock winners. But for those willing to take a deeper look, there is something more going on: Its promised transformation is taking shape and making…

The United States of America, as the White House announced, is going to buy half a billion doses of the Pfizer vaccine and donate them to 90 countries around the world. Its president, Joe Biden, has called on “the world’s democracies” to do the same. Britain complied, donating 100 million jabs. …

The director, who planned President Joe Biden’s first foreign appearance, is not lacking in skill. The European trip represents a challenge in the COVID-19 era, which forced presidents to stay behind their masks and their office walls. It is the first world appearance after the global war, which…

One of the biggest questions hanging over the US economy right now is whether the government is spending too much money. Some prominent economists are warning it's time to pump the brakes. President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package came on top of $3.1 trillion in similar outlays…

President Joe Biden’s visit to Europe has prompted a flood of enthusiastic rhetoric. This reflects the relief shared in most of the continent’s capitals about the change of White House tenant. “Today is a good day for Denmark and for transatlantic cooperation,” exulted the Danish foreign…

This is one of a series of interviews by Bloomberg Opinion columnists on how to solve the world’s most pressing policy challenges. It has been edited for length and clarity. Sarah Green Carmichael: With the pandemic subsiding in the US, the great workplace transition has begun. Many companies,…

Our country has boasted libraries from the early days of its history. It boasts the library of Makkah at the Grand Mosque, which was established 1,282 years ago, private libraries and public ones, which have flourished since the reign of the founder in the late 1920s. In 1988, Custodian of the Two…