Gee, thanks, boss! Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe just made life a lot harder for Haruhiko Kuroda or whoever succeeds him as Bank of Japan governor. Whether Abe gives Kuroda a second term or not, the premier’s planned consumption tax hike fights the central bank’s efforts to rev up the economy and get inflation at least within shouting distance of …

What former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once said about pornography is also true of gerrymandering: You may not be able to define it, but you know it when you see it. This week the justices will be presented with an opportunity to define and thereby limit gerrymandering, the practice of drawing election districts for partisan advantage. They should seize …

Last week, Google complied with the European Commission ruling that hit it with a 2.42 billion euro ($2.85 billion) fine and ordered it to share real estate on its search pages with rival comparison shopping services. From a customer’s point of view, nothing has changed. The historic EU decision punished Google for abusing its search dominance to push its own …