World News Insights: Opinion Articles

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…

Britain is undergoing a regional renaissance. People have moved to Dorset from London and are holidaying in Suffolk rather than Spain. Call it the legacy of lockdown: Things are finally heating up outside of the capital. Demand for property in outer regions of the UK has surged, as has…

Mercedes-Benz AG recently introduced its Maybach sport utility vehicle in India — right in the middle of a fierce second wave of the pandemic. The 50 cars the German automaker wanted to sell by the end of 2021 were lapped up in a month. It turns out that just as the rich were scrambling to own…

I see symbolism in Joe Biden’s calendar over the coming days — and an opportunity for a new US approach to the European Union. With luck, it’ll culminate in American support for European military integration. Here’s the US president’s line-up: This weekend, he’s in the UK, America’s main ally in…

Earlier this week, Bloomberg columnist Michael R. Strain spoke with Dr. Scott Gottlieb, his colleague at the American Enterprise Institute and a former head of the Food and Drug Administration, about Covid’s variants, vaccination rates and coming risks. In this installment, Gottlieb, who is author…

Warren Buffett, until last year a devoted shareholder of big US banks, has moved on to their challengers. Does that spell the end of his faith in the traditional financial sector? This week, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. poured $500 million into Brazil’s Nubank — the fintech company’s largest single…

Those of us who’ve dreamed of extraterrestrial life since sci-fi-drenched childhoods are awaiting the federal government’s forthcoming report on UFOs. And yet the report is unlikely to change any minds. Which makes the controversy over unidentified flying objects a lot like everything else these…

Current labor shortages might be temporary as workers re-enter the labor force over the next several months, but the higher pay they're earning won't be, given the tendency for wages to be sticky. That's going to make this economic expansion different than the last one. An expansion starting…

I have been four-eyed since I was 19. My prescription for nearsightedness was so mild, however, that I could manage without glasses if I wanted to. Over the years, my myopia needle moved only slightly, generally hovering around -1.0. A slight reading prescription was added in middle age,…

SPACs are striking in their herd mentality. Once one decides to take a new type of business public, then a whole bunch of similar firms do the same. This happened with electric vehicles and related technology, and now it’s the turn of flying taxis. This week Vertical Aerospace Group Ltd., a…

The Iranian presidential elections have been described as a “one-horse race” by Iranian activists because of the reformists’ exclusion and the support provided to hardliners. A committee subordinate to the supreme leader, the so-called Guardian Council, an unelected body composed of twelve members,…

Joe Biden couldn’t have picked a better time to release his latest executive order than his inaugural trip to Europe as US president. In overturning Trump-era bans on Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s WeChat messaging app and ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok video service, the administration sends a message not…