Bloomberg Indonesians have declared 117.3 trillion rupiah ($8.9 billion) of assets held in Singapore under the government’s tax amnesty, though only a small proportion of that figure has been brought back home, Indonesia’s Finance Ministry said. Of the total Singapore assets declared to the Indonesian government as of Sept. 15, only 14.1 trillion rupiah, or about 12 percent, has …

  Faced with Russian nuclear threats during the Cold War, the strategist Herman Kahn calibrated a macabre ladder of escalation, with 44 different rungs ranging from “Ostensible Crisis” to “Spasm or Insensate War.” In the era of cyberwarfare that’s now dawning, the rules of the game haven’t yet been established with such coldblooded precision. That’s why this period of Russian-American …

  In the mostly very positive report on U.S. income and poverty in 2015 that the Census Bureau released this week, there was one sour note. As the Wall Street Journal reported: Income gains were spread across nearly all age groups, household types, regions and racial or ethnic groups. One exception: Incomes didn’t rise for households living outside metropolitan areas. …