Bloomberg The pictures out of Hong Kong over the past few days have been particularly worrisome: a protester shot by police at point-blank range, an older man set ablaze, a truck driver beaten by demonstrators. While only one fatality has been linked to the protests since they began five months ago, that number could easily be higher. Police and protesters ...

The torrent of astonishing talk from Democratic presidential aspirants has included two especially startling ideas. One is that we are going to die — the climate change crisis is “existential” — unless America does a slew of things that the aspirants know are not going to be done. And the leading progressive aspirant has endorsed an idea that would confirm ...

The European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy — also known as CAP — is a 58-billion-euro system of farm aid that accounts for the bloc’s biggest single budget expense. And it has long been a punching bag for euroskeptics. The UK press for years excoriated the “butter mountains” supported by EU money. Even after production quotas went away, critics accused the ...