One by one, some of the most important people in corporate America lined up to criticize the president of the United States. Though many of them didn’t utter Donald Trump’s name, they didn’t need to. Everyone knew they were talking about Trump’s repugnant “both-sides-are-bad” response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend. “What we saw there was domestic …

Morally, the only proper reaction to last weekend’s events in Charlottesville, Virginia, is outrage. Legally, the analysis has to be more nuanced. To help prevent further violence while preserving freedom of speech, we need to distinguish three categories, all of which seem to have been in play in Charlottesville: terrorism, peaceful protest and provocative action aimed at producing street violence. …

Remember that Chinese pet food, laced with melamine, that caused kidney failure in the family European pooch? The horse meat passed off as beef burgers in Britain? Now tainted Dutch eggs are making diners uneasy. There’s something especially creepy about recurring food scandals, even the ones that don’t pose a huge threat to public health. The latest, involving millions of …