Opinions

The Syrian regime has collapsed. President Bashar al-Assad has left the country and Syrians are jubilant. Images of Syrians liberated from the torturous prisons that instilled fear for decades have…

One of the most salient decisions of last month’s climate summit in Baku was to create a new international carbon market, bringing nearly a decade of negotiations to a close.…

“Now you have a big family that is always by your side,” my Palestinian friend Nathmi Abushedeq wrote to me in September after I helped him with a personal matter.On…

On the morning of December 4, Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare – the largest health insurer in the United States – was fatally shot in New York City. The…

On December 8, after a rapid offensive that lasted less than two weeks, Syrian opposition forces entered Damascus and declared the end of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The Syrian president and…

On November 27, a coalition of armed opposition groups, led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) began an offensive against government-held positions in Aleppo and Idlib provinces in the northwest of…

As Angola seeks a sustainable future, it is evident that the nation’s long-term prosperity lies in its sun and soil rather than its oil.Its future lies in harnessing its abundant…

As always, the conventional wisdom is wrong.In the aftermath of the jarring events that rattled South Korea earlier this week, the instant consensus among the instant “experts” who rushed to…

It feels strange to grieve Chef Mahmoud.There is something about mourning a stranger that condemns their real self to obscurity. I hesitate to grieve a brother I never had, a…

Papa Joe Biden is a blatant liar and the embodiment of a perverse lie that sustains America’s phantom democracy.Only the familiar stable of wind-up partisans who appear on US cable…

On November 27, merely hours after a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon came into effect, a coalition of Syrian opposition factions launched their biggest military operation in years. Led…

Over the past month, American and international media has offered a myriad of analyses and opinions on the US elections and Donald Trump’s victory. Pundits have pinned the blame for…