No doubt about it: Health care is a vexing political problem. There’s a contradiction at the core of our thinking. We want the best care when we or loved ones get sick. It’s a moral issue. There should be no limits on treatment. But the resulting uncontrolled health spending harms the country. It undermines other priorities — higher wages (more ...

Whisper it in the cafes of Silicon Valley, mutter it in the teashops of Shenzhen, yell it from the Austrian mountain top, where only the goats will hear you. The supercycle is dead. I’m calling it. Before Apple Inc. unveiled the iPhone X in September, some investors expected the company’s new flagship product to drive a multi-year growth cycle, much ...

Internet users throughout the European Union – and, in some cases, in the rest of the world as well – are starting to get gently pushed towards accepting various companies’ new service and privacy terms that comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is going into effect on May 25. Trying to deal with it has convinced ...