Opinion

  Last February, a top Russian cyber official told a security conference in Moscow that Russia was working on new strategies for the “information arena” that would be equivalent to testing a nuclear bomb and would “allow us to talk to the Americans as equals.” Andrey Krutskikh, a senior Kremlin adviser, made the startling comments at the Russian National Information ...

  In one of his many imaginary conversations, Willy Loman returns home from a tiring road trip to share a secret dream with his boys, Biff and Happy. “Don’t breathe it to a soul,” says the 63-year-old protagonist of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman. “Someday I’ll have my own business, and I’ll never have to leave home anymore.” These ...

  As Donald Trump is sworn into office as the 45th president of the United States, both his toughest critics and strongest supporters need to take a deep breath and consider where they want to go from here. The critics are correct that Trump possesses troubling characteristics for a president. But the shortsighted response some have chosen — boycotting the ...

  US President Donald Trump’s ‘America first’ proclamation in his inaugural address has left the historic allies, especially Europe, in the lurch. His message was loud and clear — bear your own burden. He said in his speech that a new vision was going to govern America. And if Trump intended to put Europe in notice, he succeeded. Undoubtedly, Brexit ...

  I remember vividly the economic and financial mess President Barack Obama inherited when he was sworn in as the 44th US president eight years ago. Growth and trade were imploding, millions of Americans were losing their jobs, and the stock market was in free fall. This frightful combination was also playing out in many other countries, fueling a sense ...

  Politics and meanness are undermining an attempt to create a new French aerospace champion. Safran SA’s 9.7 billion euro ($10.3 billion) offer for industry supplier Zodiac Aerospace is structured in a way that threatens to give the state a better deal than ordinary shareholders. Safran has secured the agreement of Zodiac’s board for a deal that’s been circling for ...

  The biggest long-term threat to the iPhone isn’t Android, Samsung Electronics Co. or China’s bevy of cheap phone makers. Instead, it’s a deceptively simple idea: Apps work better if you embed them in a single program, rather than let them proliferate across your home screen. WeChat, China’s leading social media app, just launched a new platform with exactly that ...

  The question that swirls around Donald Trump’s inaugural address is whether his aggressively pronounced policy of America First will actually result in America Last — not literally last, but declining in power and prestige because the United States no longer views its role in the world as promoting economic and geopolitical stability for our allies. Instead, he imagines a ...

  As if the bond market wasn’t facing enough headwinds, with inflation starting to stir and the Federal Reserve forecasting a faster pace of interest-rate increases. Now we get news that China dumped more US Treasuries in November than any time since 2011. It’s premature to say the $66.4 billion of net sales were in response to Donald Trump’s election ...

  Chelsea Manning may be getting out of prison in a few months, but the effects of former President Barack Obama’s commutation of her sentence will last far longer. In this case, Obama made a serious error of judgment. Proponents of clemency for Manning, the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst convicted in 2013 of leaking classified material, make plenty of ...