World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Late last week President Biden achieved something I’d thought impossible: He got me to feel bad for Mark Zuckerberg. Sure, it was only a little bad, but that’s no small feat. As I spent the weekend brushing up on funereal dirges to play on my tiny violin, I couldn’t help but marvel at the…

Jeff Bezos stepped down as chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc. earlier this month after one of the most legendary runs in the history of business. The big question now is whether his successor, Andy Jassy, can keep the momentum going. Judging from the company’s latest earnings results, he…

“I’m sad... And it breaks my heart...” This is what a teary-eyed former President George Bush said as he made the claim that the US administration’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan will have devastating effects on Afghan society, especially the women and girls who will again be living under…

It seems that the doors have been closed to the Muslim Brotherhood [MB]. Even its alternative capital, Istanbul, no longer welcomes Brotherhood fugitives. Following in the footsteps of Egypt and Sudan, Tunisia announces the death of the MB’s dominion. Tunisia, which was the first gateway for the…

As countries around the world attempt to reopen their borders, officials have come up with an ever-changing list of labyrinthine polices to allow travel. A range of entry restrictions have been deployed, from home quarantines for vaccinated adults to spending up to three weeks in government…

England, we are told, is free. The government has lifted the country’s remaining Covid restrictions — on social distancing, on face masks, on numbers for gatherings, the lot — effectively leaving protection from the coronavirus to vaccinations and, er, the goddess of chance. (Scotland, Wales and…

We were just getting used to the idea of a global economic recovery, an expansion replete with eye-popping numbers seen once every few decades. Too bad it may have already peaked. Trouble appears to be lurking just beneath the surface of the International Monetary Fund's forecasts showing a hale…

Republicans who have been hoping that former President Donald Trump will somehow just fade away got a glimmer of hope Tuesday. In a House special election in Texas with two Republicans competing in a runoff, the Trump-endorsed candidate was defeated. Now, measuring the effects of endorsements…

What ever happened within a few months that made it possible to overcome the obstacles preventing the formation of a new Lebanese cabinet? Is it possible that compassion just happened to overwhelm the previously cruel hearts, so they reacted positively to the pain of the hungry and the sick who are…

In the axis of resistance’s lexicon, terms mean the opposite of what they are supposed to. The matter has become comical when it comes to day-to-day rhetoric, especially the terms victory and defeat. Recent developments enrich this ridiculousness and feed it. How so? A few days before the…

The damage from the opioid crisis extends beyond the harms of addiction and overdose. Some doctors say it also hurts people with chronic pain by derailing research intended to help them. The need to help people suffering chronic pain seduced some researchers into believing misleading claims of…

Representative Clay Higgins, a Louisiana Republican, is a controversial former police officer and car dealer. The “Cajun John Wayne” is neither a virologist nor an epidemiologist, and he has disclosed that he contracted Covid-19 (or what he calls “the CCP biological attack weaponized virus”) for…