Everyone ‘knows’ that Americans have soured on free trade and globalization, as President Trump keeps saying. But don’t tell the folks at Gallup. They’ve asked the same survey question since 1993: Do people see trade as an ‘opportunity’ or as a ‘threat’? The latest poll, conducted in February, found that 72 percent see trade as an “opportunity” and only …

  Donald Trump talks a good game on infrastructure but so far there’s been precious little action. Not so in supposedly sclerotic Europe, where Italian toll-road operator Atlantia SpA is mulling a multi-billion euro deal with Spanish rival Abertis Infraestructuras SA, Bloomberg reports. Sure, toll roads won’t win any prizes for sexiness. But it’s a good time to be in …

  With her decision to call an election in June, Theresa May becomes the second consecutive UK prime minister to take a gamble with Brexit. Her decision need not prove as disastrous as David Cameron’s, however — especially if she runs the right kind of campaign. May has reason to ask voters for her own mandate as leader of the …