World News Insights: Opinion Articles

It seems a difficult time to write about the Gaza war, as the wounds have yet to heal, and spirited slogans celebrating what they consider a divine victory are brimming with accusations of treachery directed against whoever expresses a different opinion. However, several days into the cease-fire…

“The advanced bunker of the Resistance Front”. This is how official media in Tehran describe the Gaza Strip as it emerges from its latest mini-war against “The Zionist enemy”. Needless to say, regrading itself as leader of the “Resistance Front” is already looking forward to the next round of this…

India’s vaccine strategy has flopped. A dismissive attitude toward the second Covid-19 outbreak that has raged uncontrolled, and a mistaken belief that indigenously made shots would be equal to the task of inoculating a billion adults, have left the nation scrambling. Efforts are under way to…

The news that some employers have started handing out cash rewards to workers who are vaccinated against Covid-19 warms my libertarian heart. Yes, the idea is controversial; yes, there are legal implications. But providing incentives to get people to do what others think they should is almost…

The rollout of Covid-19 vaccines developed by AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford and Johnson & Johnson has been marred by rare but serious blood-clotting side effects that resulted in some deaths. Now, scientists in Germany say they have uncovered the cause of the clotting condition and…

We and the world will remember the revolt of Al Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah’s youths against being banned from praying at the Aqsa Mosque and against the attempts to force the Arabs out of Jerusalem and seize their properties. We will also remember the war waged against Gaza’s youths, seniors, women,…

Even by the standards of Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko, effectively hijacking a flight between two European Union capitals in order to arrest an opposition journalist is an act of unbridled recklessness. Many details are still murky, including what role — if any — Russia played. One…

What a difference a year makes. In 2020, discussing the hypothesis that Covid-19 originated in a Chinese lab could get your video yanked from YouTube. Many journalists dismissed such talk as a conspiracy theory, and many scientists insisted it was fake science. Now these assurances are falling…

Over the past few weeks, I’ve spoken with managers and employees about returning to the workplace. Behind every person’s individual concern is one overarching, almost philosophical conundrum: What’s the point of the office? “That’s the right question,” says Alexandra Samuel, co-author of “Remote…

Some problems fester for decades until a crisis makes them impossible to neglect any longer. In that respect, the pandemic may hold a silver lining for Britain’s troubled rail sector. After years of bitter debate, it’s finally getting a major overhaul. There will be a new public organization…

Biden administration officials last week claimed they had a key role in establishing the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Of course, the Americans played a role but the American role in 2021 is not the role of America in the region in 1973 or 1979 or 2000. It is smaller and it will remain…

"We, Israelis, still refuse to realize the time is over in which our power can force a reality that's convenient for us and only for us, for our needs and interests (Novelist David Grossman)." "War is only good for the warlords… for Benjamin Netanyahu, but it's bad for both peoples. There are…