Of all the setbacks during World War II, the one that British Prime Minister Winston Churchill could never really get over was the fall of Singapore. Seventy-five years later, Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s new CEO, shouldn’t even want to contemplate the costs of surrendering the city’s ride-hailing market—for that might mean the beginning of the end of Uber Technologies Inc.’s global …

President Emmanuel Macron’s new government has unveiled its plan to overhaul France’s notoriously rigid labor market. It includes useful measures that should help to boost employment, and it’s a good first step. Unfortunately, though, it doesn’t resolve some deeper-rooted problems, in particular the unduly sharp divide between workers on temporary and permanent contracts — the underlying cause of France’s so-called …

There are, as is often noted, no good options for dealing with North Korea. All the more reason for the US not to make the few it does have even worse. That’s what President Donald Trump is doing by linking the security threat posed by North Korea with his trade agenda. Irked by China’s failure to help the US rein …