World News Insights: Opinion Articles

The plan to suppress students at American universities and paint them as "anti-Semitic" had been almost fully developed before they began protesting against the Gaza massacres. Israel has been preparing this plan for a long time, and it never lost sight of these crucial sites that cultivate opinion…

The concept of "Global South" (as opposed to the "Global North") gained another boost in popularity with the war on Gaza. Language often tries its best to keep up with the split that divides our world. Initially, it was said that we are split into East and West, a binary that remained in usage…

The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and the United States have announced they are close to putting the "final touches" on a long-awaited bilateral security agreement. It is certainly important for both countries and will doubtlessly have multi-faceted implications for the region. At the World…

If the students back in 1968 were divided into rebellious, longhaired pukes and conservative, close-cropped jocks, with a lot of undecided in between, the current protests at Columbia — and at the growing number of other campuses to which they have spread — have witnessed personal and often ugly…

Storms surround Syria, and some have hit neighboring countries. The latter have felt the impact domestically: Türkiye, its neighbor to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Lebanon to the west. The storms have also hit Israel, as can be seen in the struggle between Benjamin…

When I was a college undergraduate 25 years ago, the fancy school that I attended offered what it styled as a “core curriculum” that was really nothing of the sort. Instead of giving students a set of foundational courses and assignments, a shared base of important ideas and arguments, our core…

The "uprising" we are seeing in numerous US university campuses deserves our attention. It is a phenomenon that should be approached in a balanced manner that does blow these developments out of proportion. Nonetheless, we cannot overlook or fail to learn from them. First, US higher education…

Antony Blinken went to Harvard. In the hallways, he met the shadow of a man who preceded him there by decades. His name was Henry Kissinger. He will meet the same ghost as he passes through the National Security Council as well as the Council on Foreign Relations. The owner of the shadow also…

Over the past few decades, in a surge of bipartisan national self-confidence, the federal government has borrowed a lot of money, sometimes in response to national emergencies and sometimes to do the things people thought were worth doing. We gave ourselves permission to incur all this debt because…

Every politician has the right to gambit, and politics is the art of the possible. However, a particular strategy must be pursued. Regardless of how surprising one tries to make his moves, they must serve a broader goal that every conscious person agrees with. They cannot be volatile reactions that…

The persistence of the Gaza war for many months was a major surprise that the world had not anticipated and accounted for, and there are no indications of when it will end. Even the two parties directly involved, Israel and Hamas, had not prepared for anything more than another cycle of the…

The $20 billion provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency this month to support the transition to sustainable energy in local communities represents a milestone. Until now, the benefits of environment and climate subsidies around the world have been almost limited to the wealthy, who are…