World News Insights: Opinion Articles

It is worth taking a moment to examine the document entitled “We Choose Life: Christians in the Middle East, Towards Renewed Theological, Societal and Political Options” that was released last week. Launched from Antelias in Lebanon, it was drafted by an independent group of theologians and…

The world is a gigantic machine that does not stop at details. Its memory is selective and forgetful. The train of life cannot wait for the sick countries to complete the dance of their different factions. It also cannot deal with the old dictionaries of their militias. The train is destined to…

The rise of big tech and social media presents a series of difficult, perhaps intractable problems for Western societies. Our internet behemoths are effectively immense media companies pretending to be neutral platforms, feasting on the revenue that once sustained the old media ecosystem while…

The battle lines in the war on COVID-19 have been getting blurrier, as infections surge and studies offer changing and sometimes conflicting data on exactly how much protection vaccines provide. Amid the fog, we mustn’t lose sight of a crucial truth: Vaccines still work, and they’re still a…

America may say that it’s done with nation-building, but don’t believe it. Following a disillusioning war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden declared an end to “an era of major military operations to remake other countries.” It’s a familiar pledge, and one that the US never sticks to for very…

Friday, Sept. 24, was an astonishing day for Iraq. The reactions to the two incidents that occurred that day reflect how unhealthy the situation in Iraq is. General Gholam Ali Rashid, commander of the Khatam al-Anbiyaa Central Headquarters and a senior commander in the Iranian army responsible…

At first blush, Germany’s parliamentary election was a victory for moderates, and a clear defeat for extremists. The populist fringes — the Alternative for Germany (AfD) on the far right and the post-communist Left on the opposite side — both lost seats. The vast majority of votes went to one of…

If the biggest news is what’s not being talked about, then my candidate for the most neglected story would be President Joe Biden’s plan for $3.5 trillion in new government spending. Crazy as my hypothesis may seem, given all the stuff about Biden’s agenda on the internet, there has been remarkably…

Over the past 18 months, humanity has dutifully trooped into lockdown and back out again — offering up a massive amount of personal data along the way. Remote work, Zoom schooling and contact-tracing became part of daily life; even today, in the name of public health, diners in Paris have their…

There it is again: Another automaker makes a big announcement about its electrification plans with a battery manufacturer. Going by previous proclamations, that’s not just ambitious, but it’s also far-fetched. Ford Motor Co. and SK Innovation Co. announced they’re partnering to spend $11.4…

As Facebook weathers yet another scandal, this time fueled by its internal research on the effects of Instagram, I’d like to focus on something slightly different that should be a scandal, too: the quality of that internal research. Facebook has been pushing back against a story in the Wall…

With gusto, US representatives voted on nearly 300 resolutions and amendments, including an amendment to block military, logistic, and arms assistance to Saudi Arabia under the pretext of the war in Yemen. The amendment will later be up for a vote in the Senate. But there are other sides to the…