When a powerful technology company wants everyone to know it has made large concessions in its business practices, it pays to look at the fine print. Sometimes the details don’t match up with the rhetoric. That seems to be the case regarding Apple Inc’s class-action settlement with app developers. The smartphone giant announced that it reached an agreement, pending court ...

The Bank of Korea (BOK) has become the first advanced Asian economy to raise interest rates after the pandemic. This isn’t a one-and-done. When central banks start cutting or raising borrowing costs, they rarely pause after one move, because a single step gets little macroeconomic traction. Policy makers also face a public-relations debacle if they abandon new strategies quickly. So ...

“The North American cavalry was competent,” Jair Bolsonaro, then a lawmaker, told the Brazilian legislature in 1998. “Having wiped out its Indians in the past, nowadays the country doesn’t have this problem.” Land, he added, should be allocated “in proportion to the population.” Nothing suggests his retrograde views on Brazil’s original inhabitants have changed since he became president nearly three ...