World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Following the cruel developments Lebanon is beyond disheartening. Parts of the country have faced sorrows akin to those of Gaza: homes turned to dust, souls lost to bombardment with nothing left of them but fabric buried under rubble, schools emptied of students of all ages, and hospitals…

This is the mother of all battles. It is more important than the football World Cup final, boxing finals and Taylor Swift’s tours. A few American swing states will determine the fate of the world for the next four years. They will determine security and the economy, and the fate of maps that are in…

Two years ago, a British government rolled out a fiscal plan that rattled financial markets, drove up mortgage rates, torpedoed the pound and doomed the prime minister, Liz Truss, who would later resign after less than two months in office. Nobody expects a repeat of that calamity when the new…

Control of the House is on a knife’s edge, with Democrats and Republicans from the liberal coasts to the nation’s heartland running neck-and-neck in the key races that will decide which party will hold the majority in the next Congress. Public and private polling, as well as interviews with…

After Sheikh Naim Qassem was appointed Hezbollah Secretary-General, some showed an interest in the man's ideas and values in the media and on social media. He has a reputation, because of the things he has written and said, for his exuberant conservatism that places him on the further end of the…

As we move closer to Election Day, most Americans are angry, exhausted and dissatisfied by the current state of our politics. Only 4 percent say the political system is working “extremely” or even “very well.” Sixteen percent say they trust the federal government always or most of the time, a…

A year after the war Israel launched on the Gaza Strip- a genocidal war of ethnic cleansing, as attested to by the International Court of Justice- a Saudi initiative has given rise to the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution with the aim of establishing a Palestinian…

For decades at least until the early days of the current century a saying attributed to a19th century vaudeville troupe was often used to assess the prevailing political mood in an imaginary “average America”: See how it plays in Peoria! I first heard the phrase in 1974 from Thomas Philip (Tip) O…

Many people in Sudan, and of course outside the country, had not heard of the village of Seriha, in Al-Jazirah State (central Sudan), before the massacre it witnessed a few days ago, during the assault of the Rapid Support Forces. All kinds of crimes and human rights violations were committed…

Amid a pressing need for new arguments following the collapse of the theory that Hezbollah provides Lebanon with "protection" and "strength," a talking point is being echoed by those who defend this same party: The Lebanese did not build a state, and they did not do so because of sectarianism and…

The American people and the rest of the world will know which candidate will win the presidential election in just a few days. To an outside observer, it seems that the Earth has stopped turning in anticipation of the results of this election. Most of the reporting in the US on the November 5…

Optimism based on wishful thinking suggests that the Israeli military campaign against Lebanon may end “in a short period...” as military and political sources in Tel Aviv are saying. However, the problem, based on readings of the past “clashes” between Lebanon and Israel, is that optimism…