Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine has focused Europe’s attention on external threats to its security. A potentially more insidious danger exists within, in Europe’s swelling ranks of Putinist far-right personalities and parties. Even though she lost the French elections, Marine Le Pen demonstrated with her unprecedented vote count the growing potency of one of Putin’s chief allies in Europe. Another ...

East-West relations are a growing problem for HSBC Holdings Plc, the bank with feet planted equally in each hemisphere. U.S.-China tensions have steadily ramped up in recent years. But while geopolitical discord threatens HSBC’s business, splitting the bank into a version of HSBC East and HSBC West — as its largest shareholder, Shenzhen-based Ping An Insurance (Group) Co, has proposed ...

  For many years, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention was known as the world’s preeminent public-health agency. No longer. During the pandemic, the CDC stumbled repeatedly. Accused of incompetence, overreach and muddled messaging, it is now in need of repair. Director Rochelle Walensky was right to order a review of the agency’s operations in early April. ...