Our device-driven lives depend more than ever on tragedy in the Democratic Republic of Congo
In cobalt mining towns like Kolwezi, children emerge by the hundreds from water-logged huts to climb the rocky, 50-meter pit...
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Opinion: Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron are locked in a post-Brexit duel
The International Organization for Migration said the tragedy marked the single biggest known loss of life on the busy waterway...
Opinion: Where Xi’s China is heading
Their country, home to one of the greatest and most ancient civilizations in the world, long a leader in science...
Opinion: Your rights could be taken away rapidly. I know because it happened to me
My grandmothers had escaped the 1917 Russian Revolution and fled to Iran in search of freedom. And to a certain...
Opinion: My father is imprisoned in Nicaragua. His fate could hang on their upcoming presidential election
Every Sunday night, I would call my father, a horse farmer and part-time political pundit in Nicaragua, who would give...
Supply-Chain Bottlenecks, Elevated Inflation to Last Well Into Next Year, Survey Finds
Uncomfortably high inflation will grip the U.S. economy well into 2022, as constrained supply chains keep upward pressure on prices...
Opinion: Why boycotting the Beijing Winter Olympics could backfire
And with less than six months to go, pressure is mounting on the United States and other democracies to boycott...
Opinion: What’s causing the crisis on the Belarus-Lithuania border?
But its newest "crisis" is being felt on a different front: European Union member state Lithuania, where in late July...
U.S. Economy Likely to Outgrow China’s Due to Contrast in Pandemic Responses
The U.S. and China are trading places in the economic growth race. U.S. gross domestic product rose 12.2% in the...
Opinion: Canada has big decisions to make on China
Meng is wanted by the United States on multiple serious charges, including bank fraud and violating US sanctions against Iran...
U.S. Set to Push Global Economy Over the Recovery Line
The U.S. economy likely returned to its late-2019 size during the three months through June, helping to lift global output...
How China Is Helping to Damp Global Inflation
HONG KONG—As China’s factory-gate prices soared this year, investors worried the country would become a new source of inflation for...
Opinion: Covid has South Africa by the throat. How I dodged its scary grip
I'm also among those fortunate who have been able to continue to earn a living working from home. I seldom...
Opinion: The US should deal with Assad
As many know, I frequently met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad between 2004 and 2009 first to write a biography...
Opinion: Netanyahu just pulled from Trump’s playbook. It won’t help him
"We are witnessing the greatest election fraud in the history of the country, in my opinion in the history of...
Opinion: As the US leaves Afghanistan, it must fulfill its obligation to interpreters
Among those in the second category, we can unfortunately count life-threatening jeopardy to a group of Afghans who hitched themselves...
Opinion: Why teaching the horrors of the Holocaust is vital
That conclusion is borne out in data. A 2020 study by the Pew Research Center found that more than half...
Opinion: The Yemen I know and love
I remain immensely hopeful, even as my fellow citizens suffer in a terrible proxy war involving self-interested nation-states, because I...
