The Department of Agriculture’s four-paragraph announcement in the Federal Register of a “revision of categorical eligibility in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program” didn’t fool anyone: The government is proposing to kick 3.1 million people off food stamps. And while the proposal is being attacked for its cruelty, the better argument is that it’s unnecessary. One of America’s oldest social-welfare programs ...

Britain’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, won the job promising to do something Europe’s leaders have long refused to allow: renegotiate the Brexit withdrawal agreement. The EU should think again — not to help Johnson, but for strictly selfish reasons. The constant sticking point in the Brexit saga has been the so-called backstop — the plan to avoid new border ...

Singapore’s malls are showing some resilience to the global hollowing out of physical retail by online shopping. The demographics of the smartphone generation are still against them, though. Suburban middle-class shopping centers put up a strong show in CapitaLand Mall Trust’s quarterly earnings. Their relative outperformance was an overarching theme in the results of Singapore’s biggest mall landlord, which offer ...