Google’s new cloud boss is used to being the underdog, and that’s fitting for the role he’s stepping into at one of the world’s most powerful corporations. The Alphabet Inc. unit has been trying for years — halfheartedly, at least until recently — to leverage its technical expertise in web search into areas such as renting computer power and data-crunching ...

With China posting its weakest growth in a decade, officials have blamed a “challenging external environment” – polite language for the trade war. It makes for a good sound bite with an obvious villain. But in reality, responsibility for the slowdown rests squarely with Beijing’s policies and cracks in the economy. For all the headlines and hand-wringing, the macro-level impact ...

In the hierarchy of pleasures, schadenfreude comes second, so conservatives are enjoying Harvard’s entanglement with two things it has not sufficiently questioned — regulatory government and progressive sentiment. The trial that recently ended in Boston — the judge’s ruling might be months away, and reach the US Supreme Court — concerns whether Harvard’s admissions policy regarding Asian-Americans is unjust, and ...