A recent New York Times investigation described how Facebook bungled its response to the misinformation that has proliferated on its platform. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in an interview that the problems his company is grappling with “are not issues that any one company can address.” He’s right: The problem of fake news has become too big for any social ...

It’s true that the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is not independent, but the central bank of the world’s second-largest economy is outgrowing that excuse. There’s plenty it can and should do without explicit sign-off from above. Start by tackling what a recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) paper calls low-hanging fruits. This is basic and important stuff like beefed-up forecasts, ...

Even as politicians in the US and Europe rage about foreigners supposedly swamping their shores, one of the world’s most insular countries — Japan — is on the verge of passing what might be its most sweeping immigration reform to date. Welcome as this would be, the plan isn’t sweeping enough. A bill approved by the lower house of the ...