Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has unleashed hell upon Ukraine, and on his own information-deprived people, in a bid to enlarge the world’s largest country, which already stretches across 11 time zones. Closely watching is China’s Xi Jinping, who rules the world’s most populous country with 1.4 billion people, has destroyed…

If nothing else, Joe Biden’s Middle East whirlwind was interesting because of the obsession with his seeming frailty: could the oldest US president muster the minimal stamina needed to project global leadership and enable reelection in 2024? But there policy issues on the table as well: getting OPEC to…

It is no small challenge to praise a party that dragged Europe into Brexit, but Britain’s Conservatives have offered their global cohort a shining example of how a modern conservative movement need not abandon all decency and decorum. It was an internal rebellion by the Tories that brought about…

It is tragically fitting that another gun massacre took place in the United States on the Fourth of July, as the nation marked the 246th anniversary of its founding. This happened days after the country’s Supreme Court made such massacres more likely by further easing what is the developed…

Putting aside the rage over the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, which contradicted what several justices suggested they would do when they were nominees, let’s consider the GOP argument. They essentially say there is no constitutional right to abortion and that the issue is political. …

As no calendar year is complete without an Israeli election, the country will apparently soon hold one. The planned November election would mark the fifth such consultation since early 2019. It’s enough to make Italy look stable, or the United States look reasonable. And it is raising the same…

That the news industry is reeling is not a matter for debate. …

As the Ukraine war drags on journalists are looking for new angles, and so we have reached the point of introspection. Appearing on the Tel Aviv-based international channel I24, I was asked whether journalists have an obligation to be more impartial. It is something I’d often pondered when I…

The gun madness that Americans seem prepared to accept in perpetuity is unique among developed nations and reflects an incredible paralysis in a country that for decades was a beacon of innovation and democracy for the world. And what’s amazing is that this most political of issues carries no visible…