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How Arrests of Columbia University’s Protesters Unfolded, in Videos
Shortly after 9 p.m. on Tuesday evening, New York City police officers entered a Columbia University building that pro-Palestinian demonstrators had barricaded themselves inside. Dozens of people were arrested and loaded into buses.
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B-School Blather Can’t Beat Real-World CEO Know-How
Forget the neoliberalism versus DEI-ESG debate. Companies like Vinci SA that toil in the unglamorous real economy hold keys to better management.
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Putin Isn’t Scared of Ukraine’s $61 Billion Boost
The US aid will help Kyiv make it through 2024 but the Russian leader still thinks he can outwait the West.
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Rate-Hike Risk Creeps Up on Emerging Markets as Bond Bets Fizzle
Global investors are unwinding bets on local-currency bonds as some emerging-market central banks come under pressure to raise interest rates — rather than cut them as widely anticipated just weeks ago.
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How Rishi Sunak’s Future May Hinge on the Fate of Two Tory Mayors in UK Local Elections
Between sips of coffee in Banqo Café in the center of Darlington, Catalin Cirimpei lauds the improvement the northeastern town has seen in recent years. Investment has poured in, police response times have sped up and he approves of Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen’s rescue of the regional airport.
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US, Philippines Eye Partnership to Cut China’s Nickel Dominance
The U.S. and the Philippines are in discussions over ways to prevent China from dominating nickel processing in the Southeast Asian nation, a key supplier of the metal that’s crucial for electric vehicle batteries.
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Buffett-Favored Mitsui Announces Share Buyback, Stock Split
Warren Buffett-favored Japanese trading firm Mitsui & Co. announced that it will buy back up to 200 billion yen ($1.3 billion) worth of shares, as it looks to boost investor returns.
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Journalism Is Not a Crime, Even When It Offends the Government
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been imprisoned in London for five years, while Texas journalist Priscilla Villarreal was only briefly detained at the Webb County Jail. But both were arrested for publishing information that government officials wanted to conceal. Assange and Villarreal argue that criminalizing such conduct violates the First Amendment. In both cases, the […]
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No One Can Make Government Work
President Joe Biden says, “I know how to make government work!” You’d think he’d know. He’s worked in government for 51 years. But the truth is, no one can make government work. Biden hasn’t. Look at the chaos at the border, our military’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, the rising cost of living, our unsustainable record-high […]
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Microsoft Concern About Google’s Lead Drove Investment in OpenAI
Microsoft Corp.’s motivation for investing heavily and partnering with OpenAI came from a sense of falling badly behind Google, according to an internal email released Tuesday as part of the Justice Department’s antitrust case against the search giant.
