Sometimes, Brexit seems like it might subsume British public life entirely. So some credit is due to Prime Minister Theresa May, who tried to articulate a broader agenda at her party’s annual conference this week. Regrettably, her policies were a mix of modest improvements and ambitious mistakes — a schema largely out of tune with the challenges the country now ...

Reading Greg Miller’s gripping new account of President Trump’s entanglement in the Russia investigation, it’s striking just how many of the president’s difficulties have been self-created. Trump sees enemies everywhere around him; he should look in the mirror. As the book’s ironic title makes clear, Trump has been ‘The Apprentice’ in the White House. New to government, buoyed by sycophantic ...

Maybe it was inevitable that Facebook Inc. would become the first big target for Europe’s new data privacy rules. After Mark Zuckerberg’s social media giant revealed a security breach last month that hit at least 50 million accounts, Ireland’s data protection authority now says it’s investigating whether its safeguarding measures were compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which ...