A refrain I’ve heard a lot these past six months is how great it’s been not to have to travel. People who were frequent fliers before the pandemic usually add that they now realise that, thanks to Zoom and its rivals, a lot of travel isn’t truly necessary anymore. Maybe some of it never was. Yes, lawyers need to conduct ...

There’s one surprise entrant in the group of oil companies announcing plans this year for how they’ll reduce emissions: PetroChina Co. China’s oil companies, unlike their peers in the US and particularly Europe, don’t traditionally treat climate targets as a major issue. Beijing, after all, isn’t even promising to hit its emissions peak until 2030. The large fund managers that ...

A spate of looting in Chicago in mid-August should remind us that the problem of concentrated urban poverty still exists in the US. While looting is often an outgrowth of protests — not only in big cities like Chicago, but also more recently in places such as Kenosha, Wisconsin — it also can represent a response to a sense of ...