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Exxon Mobil Corp.’s management recently won a round against shareholder activists who want the company to take bolder action on climate change. But...
Less than 15 months after the world’s most recent banking crisis, regulators in the US and Europe are already poised to roll back reforms aimed at...
Steward Health Care System LLC was once thought to be the future. Its chief executive officer, Ralph de la Torre, was named “health care’s new...
Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise that precision-guided NATO munitions have been veering off course and drones are falling from the sky in Ukraine:...
By all appearances, the Republican Party will stick with Donald Trump after his conviction Thursday on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records...
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Congress keeps talking about regulating stablecoins but doing nothing. It’s a lapse that poses growing dangers to investors, the financial system...
Those concerned about the health of China’s economy — which, given its size and importance to global growth, should be everyone — are hoping...
Flaws in President Joe Biden’s clean-energy strategy were apparent before his latest initiative underlined the contradictions. The administration...
Last week, when UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a general election for July 4, he very likely put an end date on his party’s long stretch of...
It’s an abiding challenge: Faced with hard problems, policymakers demand simple solutions, details unspecified. Increasingly, this approach is...
Since the start of the year, a surprising development has taken place along the US-Mexico border: Fewer people are coming across. Encounters between...
With his signature student-loan-forgiveness plan struck down by the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden is pushing to cancel debts by other means. His...
Shadow banking is back. A constellation of less-regulated intermediaries — from insurers to private investment funds — is increasingly taking on...
An end to coal, the world’s dirtiest source of energy, should be in sight. In the eight years since the Paris Agreement was signed, planned new coal...
Although the sale of new machine guns has been banned since the 1980s, automatic firing is now staging a disturbing comeback, thanks to easy-to-...
As the Federal Reserve struggles to make sense of a ceaseless flow of noisy statistics, it needs to keep one question front of mind: Is the current...
Both Congress and the White House are rightly demanding change at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. after a law firm’s investigation confirmed...
Whoever wins November’s election, inflation will present them with an immediate challenge. More than two years after the Federal Reserve started...
Why do particles have mass? That was a question that preoccupied the late Nobel Prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs. His proposed explanation...
Colleges have failed to strike a balance between academic freedom and free speech during this spring’s protests.
Americans can buy almost anything online. Why not new cars? In much of the US, would-be buyers must still visit a dealership. States protect these...
President Joe Biden’s efforts to counter China have been most effective when they’ve enlisted allies and least productive when they’ve pandered...
It probably escaped your attention, but the Internal Revenue Service recently piloted a program to help Americans cope with their notoriously complex...
A barrel of oil fetches about $80 on the global market. Consider the power of that price: It has driven extensive human endeavor, trillions of dollars...
Although college isn’t for everyone, earning a degree still offers a pathway to success for many Americans. Yet each year, hundreds of thousands of...
The rise of index funds has provided millions of Americans with a cheaper and more efficient way to invest. With more than $23 trillion in assets...
The US government has spent $471 billion supporting academic research over the past decade. A troubling proportion of that work, recent reports...
One of the main themes of President Joe Biden’s approach to economic policy is “place-based” programs — bundles of measures to promote jobs...
At the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank earlier this month, the world’s finance ministers and central bankers...
Noncompete agreements, in which employers place certain restrictions on departing workers, have grown pervasive in recent years, affecting almost 20%...
Europe’s goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, a crucial element of global efforts to stop climate change, will require a lot of...
The Federal Reserve’s difficult task suddenly looks even harder. The central bank’s goal has been to restrain demand enough to push inflation...
Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. are two of the great American success stories. Over more than five decades, they’ve built sophisticated payment...
After months of delay, Congress is set to vote on President Biden’s $60 billion support package for Ukraine. The potential withdrawal of vital US...
It was “an absurd notion,” “not helpful to the cause” and “not helpful to the country.” So said House Speaker Mike Johnson, after his own...
President Joe Biden deserves praise for recognizing the urgency of climate change. He has done less well adapting to setbacks and political realities....
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Next time you ask ChatGPT for a lasagna recipe, consider how much computing power you’re using: On a typical day, the AI chatbot handles an...
Though largely thwarted by Israel and its allies, the assault launched by Iran against the Jewish state over the weekend was a powerful reminder that...
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The latest projections from the Congressional Budget Office repeat a warning made many times before: The trajectory of US government borrowing is...
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is rightly being feted in Washington this week as leader of America’s closest ally in Asia. But Japan is...
President Joe Biden’s botched rollout of a revamped financial aid form reveals a stunning lack of managerial competence. It has left colleges unable...
Ever since the Biden administration’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021, US planners have worried militant groups might again use the...
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Ever since the US Navy slashed telegraph links between Spain and Cuba during the Spanish-American War, countries have appreciated the strategic value...
Marijuana legalization is killing a lot of people. Not slowly — though some studies suggest that it may be doing that, too — but quickly, in car...
You might not have heard of Pfandbriefbank. Yet the small German mortgage lender offers a valuable cautionary tale about how global crises happen, and...
America’s approach to health care is an outlier among the world’s rich countries, and not in a good way. Extraordinarily complex and hideously...