At first glance, President Donald Trump’s new tariffs on steel and aluminum may look like a repetition of one of President George W. Bush’s mistakes. Bush also imposed tariffs on steel in his second year in office, and like Trump did it in part to keep a campaign promise he considered helpful in the Rust Belt. Bush’s tariffs are generally ...

The most interesting part of the draft Brexit agreement the European Union published on February 28 is its complete disregard for the topsy-turvy mess that is UK’s internal politics. Something has been happening there every day —a major speech, a heated exchange, a clash of ambitions. Yet the EU’s position hasn’t evolved since the preliminary deal in December, and perhaps ...

The digital world relies on data, and no one produces more of it than China’s 1.4 billion internet users. The vast wealth of information these users emit has helped Chinese tech companies become some of the world’s best, and led to speculation that China will inevitably dominate future technologies, such as artificial intelligence. But this is almost certainly mistaken. Data, ...