Since 2016, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced at a prime-time television address that he was withdrawing most of India’s currency overnight, such speeches have been preceded by wild speculation. Modi’s message was even starker than most expected. From midnight [March 24], this country of 1.3 billion will shut down: “For 21 days, forget what going out means.” Modi is ...

It’s no secret that US hospitals are facing a dire shortage of personal protection equipment for their workers. The surgeon general even urged the public to stop buying masks, stating, “They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if health care providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities ...

Boeing Co is the least deserving of the corporate needy in the coronavirus crisis, but the nature of its position means it must get a special cut of a $2 trillion aid package working its way through Congress. As the only US company capable of producing a major commercial jetliner, the country’s biggest exporter, and a major defense contractor, it’s ...