World News Insights: Opinion Articles

In cities at least, India’s nightmarish second wave of Covid-19 finally seems to be ebbing. Delhi has brought its test positivity rate below 2% for the first time in two months. The pandemic’s scars won’t be easily erased, however — and they should be a warning to other developing nations. Those…

Human behavior during Covid has upended one of the most fundamental assumptions of economics, even if economists haven’t yet come around to admitting it. In sum: People are worse at big, important decisions than previously thought, and better at small, trivial ones. Standard economics theory…

A digital currency issued by the Federal Reserve would revolutionize the US financial industry. Yet while economic and financial digitization is crucial, as Fed Chairman Jerome Powell says, it cannot also be universal. The result is that major economies are going to end up with at least two…

Something seems to have changed in housing market psychology over the past month. Prospective buyers who find themselves in bidding wars might not have noticed it yet, but there are multiple signs that the market is beginning to cool. Last week's consumer-price report, which came in much hotter…

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown us two sides of technological progress. There’s the positive side that’s delivered safe and effective vaccines in record time, helped economies with new stay-at-home online tools and improved disease surveillance and public health. And there’s the negative side…

Even if we never learn whether Covid-19 escaped from a lab or jumped to humans from animals, the public is entitled to a closer look at what’s going on in virology labs. Some scientists worry that laboratory scientists are getting too little oversight on projects that could potentially start…

To fortify Hady Amr’s behind the scenes diplomatic efforts, which had run their course, Washington sent its secretary of state, Antony Blinken, to the region to contain the ramifications of the war in Gaza. The step - though late - indicates that Washington is aware of the dangers of the conflict…

Hotels are nice nations. They are a roof over the heads of strangers, whose goals and nationalities differ. They are optional nations. Your ancestors did not make you suffer the burden of their legacy or curse for your entire life. The most beautiful thing about hotels is that you can run away from…

India’s internet future — free and open, or stymied and controlled — may be decided by a 224-page lawsuit filed by WhatsApp last week. Saying that it wanted to curb fake news, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government introduced new rules in February that would compel social media platforms such…

Epic Games Inc., the maker of Fortnite, may pull out a surprising last-minute victory in its court battle against Apple Inc. with potential wide-ranging ramifications for how millions of iOS app developers make money. First, a brief recap: The conflict that spawned the trial began last August…

Some of the world’s biggest emitters of carbon are also becoming the loudest advocates of climate change, frequently spouting all the buzzwords that go with it: net-zero, decarbonization and neutrality. Most earnings calls and various corporate sustainability reports are now peppered with this…

There is an old joke about an extremely poor and wretched country that has lost any hope of overcoming its poverty. This country’s ruler called on his ministers to deliberate about solutions to bring them out of their misery. The minister of culture, an intellectual, suggested the following plan:…