Bloomberg Justin Trudeau had 24 hours to transform his governing Liberals from progressive champions to crisis managers. Canada’s parliament kicked off the week with legislation to ban conversion therapy, a controversial custom. It ended on March 13 with a coordinated effort to prevent the nation’s economy from tumbling into a recession due to the global coronavirus pandemic. Trudeau orchestrated the ...

Amid the chaos of coronavirus, it was encouraging to see a bipartisan, blue-ribbon commission announce a coherent plan for dealing with the next potential catastrophe — a major cyberattack against the United States. Covid-19 has given us all a foretaste of what a crippling cyberattack would look like: Transportation, infrastructure and health care services would all be severely disrupted. We’d ...

Suddenly, every country in the world has to decide whether or not to close schools to slow the Covid-19 pandemic. France will, as of Monday; the UK won’t, and so on. Within federal systems like the US and Germany, states or school districts have to make the decision. In Germany, tiny Saarland is shuttering its schools, while other states are ...