Faced with increasingly violent protests, French President Emmanuel Macron has suspended his plan to raise fuel taxes. The climbdown is a concession to political necessity, but it shouldn’t be confused with smart policy, and it shouldn’t deflect Macron from his larger goals. Even in a country with a fabled tradition of riotous dissent, the intensity of the protests in France ...

The uncertainty of the ongoing Brexit drama is taking an emotional toll on the British public. Since the original vote in 2016, there has been a 13.7 percent increase in prescriptions for antidepressants relative to other drugs. Political chaos has consequences for public health. Indeed, the results of a new study suggest that people subjected to long periods of intense ...

What’s a troubled social network to do? Facing a crisis of confidence, Facebook appears to struggle to take actions on its own, whether out of uncertainty or stubbornness, and it’s not clear a divided Congress and the Trump administration could agree on regulatory actions to force its hand. One simple first step would be a bit more financial transparency. Inspired ...