As Twitter users everywhere brace for changes to their beloved platform under new ownership, no group is more anxious about Elon Musk’s intentions than the large and highly influential community of democracy activists and human-rights advocates. And arguably, no other group has more at stake. Certainly, none has a closer appreciation of the platform’s potential — for both good and ...

  Hong Kong has undergone wrenching changes that were all but unimaginable little more than two years ago. The remaking of the city in the wake of pro-democracy protests in 2019 has touched upon areas such as freedom of speech and the legal system that are pillars of its standing as an international financial center. Yet if there is one ...

  In the space of a few short months, the prevailing narrative on US inflation has veered from “It’s transitory” to “We have a problem.” The Federal Reserve took another step towards acknowledging this, raising its policy rate by 50 basis points and leading investors to expect a faster pace of tightening from now on. That’s fine, you might say, ...