Bloomberg Trupti Katdare was in a slum in the central Indian city of Indore when the mob attacked. She and a group of other public-health workers had been tracking down a man who might have had contact with a recently confirmed case of the coronavirus. When they found him, he cursed at them, asking why they wanted his information and ...

Because the United States’ unrivaled resources of human and physical capital have only been idled, not obliterated, the recovery might begin with a bang, propelled by a burst of pent-up animal spirits. The recovery could, however, be unnecessarily anemic, for two reasons. First, the receding pandemic (caused by a virus roughly one ten-thousandth of a millimeter in diameter) will leave ...

For a man with a 100-year vision, Masayoshi Son sure seems impatient. We already know that the SoftBank Group Corp chairman wasn’t content letting Adam Neumann be slightly crazy in his plan to upend the short-term office rental market; indeed he encouraged the founder of The We Co to be even crazier. And when a young Ritesh Agarwal was building ...