World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Just 18 months ago, Moderna Inc. was an early-stage biotechnology company working on a new way of making vaccines worth $6.5 billion. Today, after it developed and delivered one of the fastest-arriving and most effective shots against Covid-19, Moderna’s market value is approaching $100 billion. …

Trade in coal and steel powered the European Union’s formative years. Now the bloc wants to lead the world on climate responsibility, with a bumper package of proposals from expanding an emissions-trading system to banning fossil fuel cars to reach its 2050 target of carbon neutrality. But for all…

Since earlier this year, protests against the authorities in Iran have been expanding largely. However, they are not large enough to threaten the existence of the regime, despite their diversity, intensity, and wide geographical scope; factors that are set to create more pressures and challenges…

The heated confrontation over the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam would suggest that it is the only source of danger to Egypt’s water security. There is no doubt that Egypt has historical rights to the Nile, upon which its civilization and existence have been built, and that there are legal and moral…

Whether sales are rising or falling, automakers from the US to China have found a catchall explanation: the global chip shortage. For the laggards, the excuse is getting old. In the US, a shortfall of semiconductors has forced manufacturers to shift from making more cars to better ones. These…

The West Coast had a homelessness crisis even before the pandemic. Now it's worse. Fortunately, the solution is already well-established: Just give homeless people a place to live. Republican President George W. Bush helped prove the effectiveness of that simple idea; what we need is a return to…

Even the most adventurous investor would acknowledge that cryptocurrencies are risky. And that saving for retirement should be a search for a measure of safety. Yet salespeople have been blanketing potential investors with email pitches urging them to put Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies into…

Facebook Inc. is betting big to get its piece of the creator economy. But even for a dominant technology platform, money alone doesn’t guarantee success. On Wednesday, the company announced plans to pay more than $1 billion to creators by the end of 2022 for making content on its platforms —…

This is not a frantic defense of the man’s positions, as some friends accused me after the tragedy of Nasiriyah Hospital. Nor is it an attempt to justify his mistakes or those of his team or his government, as all of them bear a certain degree of responsibility. However, it is the political class …

While streaming-video services such as HBO Max, Disney+ and Paramount+ and are still trying to develop Netflix-size followings among TV and movie fans, Netflix Inc. is already on to the next thing: video games. It just might help the streaming pioneer get out of a growth rut. After hinting…

Ukraine may rarely be on the front pages anymore, but it remains one of the world’s most important countries, its domestic struggles echoing far and wide (remember the second Trump impeachment? It won’t be the last such echo). The main reason for that importance is Russian President Vladimir Putin…

This week’s events in Washington have been a good case-study in why the tradition of analyzing a presidency when it reaches the 100-day mark is just a silly media norm. Because here we are, 75 days after that supposed benchmark, and there’s still no way to guess whether President Joe Biden’s…