Is Mark Zuckerberg “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”? The comparison with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s 1797 lyrical ballad was invoked in the middle of a hearing in Brussels on Tuesday, where he faced questions from a handful of European lawmakers. In the poem, a wizard’s young apprentice is left alone by his master and enchants a broomstick. Before too long, he finds ...

We’re about two months away from elections in Pakistan — elections that are almost certain to be shrouded in controversy, one way or another. And, worryingly for Pakistan, it appears that the economy is weakening, just in time for the instability that might follow from the country’s turbulent politics. Under the outgoing government — led till last April by Nawaz ...

Wells Fargo & Co. has launched a series of advertisements meant to rebuild trust with customers. But the ads, to pull an image from Wells Fargo’s long-ago campaigns, are putting the wagon before the horse. Evidence of that is piling up. The Wall Street Journal reported that Wells Fargo recently discovered that employees were improperly altering the documents of business ...