World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The guiding principle in our region, historically shaped by the Arab-Palestinian-Israeli conflict, was once “land for peace.” This concept served as the legal interpretation of UN Security Council Resolution 242, which was seen as a foundation for peace. Today, however, we face a new reality: …

Under the patronage of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the third Global Artificial Intelligence Summit will take place in Riyadh on Sept. 10-12, featuring more than 300 speakers and the participation of some of the most prominent experts in the field worldwide. Saudi Arabia’s interest in AI…

In one of those outbursts that he specializes in Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s nominee for the US Presidency, called his Democrat rival, Vice-President Kamala Harris, a “Communist.” Since I doubt that Ms. Harris has anything but the faintest notion about Communism, a zombie ideology that…

The seven southern towns that were cut off of Lebanon during the French Mandate, and have now become Israeli settlements, remain in the Lebanese collective memory, particularly that of the South. There are several reasons to remember these towns, given the emerging threats to geographic integrity…

For two years, a rural town in the middle of Michigan has been embroiled in a civil war over plans by a Chinese-owned electric vehicle battery company to build a $2.4 billion factory. On Tuesday, the local furor collided with presidential politics as the Trump campaign sought to leverage anti-China…

Sometimes, we are seized by a moralistic tendency to generate an ideal version of reality in which good unites with good to confront evil which, in turn, also unites with evil. On both sides, what is smaller and belongs to lower rank lines up behind what is larger and of a higher rank. However,…

Even before Ronald Reagan's campaign manager, William Casey, who would later become among the most prominent intelligence chiefs in the US, coined the term "October Surprise" in 1980, the concept had already been a reality on the ground. In the fall of 1956, the Suez War and the Hungarian Uprising…

This June, I was invited on a friend’s podcast to answer a question I’ve been asked over and over again in the Trump era. Are Christians really persecuted in the United States of America? Millions of my fellow evangelicals believe we are, or they believe we’re one election away from a crackdown…

Iraq is undergoing a significant transformation in its foreign policy, with a focus on achieving national sovereignty, economic integration, and diplomatic balance. Prime Minister Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani’s administration has embarked on reshaping Iraq’s role in the region, positioning the country…

According to yesterday’s (Monday) important statements by the EU's Red Sea naval mission "Aspides,” the Greek-flagged oil tanker Sounion is still in flames after the Houthi attack. While it confirmed that there have been no clear signs of an oil spill so far, the attack, along with previous…

The Democratic National Convention ended yesterday, weeks after the Republican National Convention concluded. To many observers, neither of the two conventions brought any surprises, even after the Democrats’ candidate, President Joe Biden, withdrew from the race and the vast majority of his…

For all the talk about how Kamala Harris may become the first woman of color elected president, one person most definitely isn’t talking about it: Kamala Harris. Not on the campaign trail, where her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, continues to lob racist and sexist attacks her way. And not in…