World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Too many of our digital maps are sellouts. Just like the projection maps we’re all familiar with that inaccurately depict Greenland dwarfing South America, the digital maps that orient our lives on smartphones and laptops are the result of a series of compromises or half-truths and don’t always…

We start from Italy, with the developments that must be recalled at every conversation about judges: When the Cold War ended and the traditional parties and their ideologies fell after successive collapses, there was also an explosion of civic ties, economic cooperatives, and non-governmental…

In Washington, the Democratic Party’s internal division about foreign policy is growing, and the American military presence in Syria last week was a clear proof. It was bizarre to hear President Biden tell the United Nations on September 21 that the United States for the first time in twenty years…

Make no mistake. This is a crisis, not a spat. The new partnership announced last week between the United States, Britain and Australia, in which Australia would be endowed with nuclear-powered submarines, has left the French angry and in shock. And not just because of the loss of their own deal…

This was a good week for anyone enthused about relitigating the 2020 election. First there was new evidence, reported in a new book about the Biden family from the Politico writer Ben Schreckinger and in an Insider story on an abortive Libya-related influence operation, suggesting the famous Hunter…

The cryptocurrency crowd has wasted no time in dancing on the grave of China’s “FUD” (internet speak for fear, uncertainty and doubt). Last week’s move by the People’s Bank of China to ban crypto transactions and mining dented the prices of Bitcoin, Ethereum and other digital currencies, but…

The newsworthy story and the momentous political development is not the exit of France from the newly formed pact—which it considered as a stab in the back - after its exclusion from the anti-China strategic alliance and the lucrative military deal. The more important headline is the formation of…

The wave of the “Arab Spring” that we have been reeling from since 2011 has left the region facing a series of disasters and afflictions that have had unprecedented negative ramifications on its political, economic and social stability. Here, we must be honest with ourselves and take distance from…

Nine months after the arrival of President Joe Biden into the White House, a new American foreign policy “philosophy” for the Middle East is beginning to emerge. Several previous administrations have sought to “pivot away” from the Middle East, but in doing so, they have disengaged too quickly and…

The United States did not directly mention China in announcing its historic new security partnership with Australia and Britain last week, but it didn’t have to. The defense deal is a clear escalation and indication that Washington views Beijing as an adversary. It also has thrust Australia into…

US Navy recently stood up a seagoing task force that it hopes will sail into not just the Arabian Gulf but also the future. The question is whether the service, and the Pentagon as a whole, can put its focus and money into the weapons of tomorrow and not those of the past. Instead of the…

There’s finally a decision on which Americans should get booster shots against Covid-19. Unfortunately, some of the new federal recommendations go well beyond the data and foist the decision of appropriateness onto individuals and their doctors. And by expanding booster eligibility to a huge swath…