In reimposing travel curbs on Americans, the European Union is sending a message to the US that is as much about diplomacy as it is about epidemiology. Sure, there is data to nominally support the decision. A surge in cases driven by the delta variant’s spread has put the US well beyond the recommended limits for non-essential travel to the ...

To say it’s absurd that an electric-truck maker that hasn’t yet delivered any trucks to regular customers should seek an $80 billion valuation is to state the obvious. That isn’t a knock on Rivian Automotive Inc, which announced that it has filed for an IPO confidentially. From what we can tell, it seems like the real deal. It’s just a ...

One of the less obvious outcomes of the Great Blizzard of 1888 was that, by the following year, crowds of New Yorkers were following workers around yelling “timber!” as they chopped down wooden utility poles. The ferocious winter storm pushed the city to get serious about burying the growing network of power and telegraph lines strung over its streets. Climate ...