For decades, workers made do with a smaller share of the spoils of capitalism, and the labour unions who represented them shed members and influence. Now employees are finding their collective voice again, and not before time. Tight job markets and the soaring cost of living are fuelling demands for higher pay and better working conditions on both sides ...

The world’s biggest car company, Toyota Motor, reluctantly released an electric vehicle in May. Weeks later, it recalled 2,700 of them because there was a risk in their wheels — the most fundamental component — would fall off. If that’s the level of quality and safety traditional auto giants are willing to commit to, then investors and regulators should increase ...

  In 2033, a US spacecraft will return to Earth carrying the second cache of rocks ever collected from the surface of Mars. The first cache? It will have been collected by China two years earlier, in 2031, according to plans released by one of China’s top space scientists. Of course, there’s no guarantee that either mission will succeed. But ...