Democratic rights in Asia have been under threat this past year, as leaders from India to Myanmar and Indonesia cracked down on protests, jailed activists and journalists, and took advantage of pandemic restrictions to stifle dissent. This backsliding on human rights is a key metric of the rising tide of populism that will hang heavily over the region in 2022. ...

You might think that the IPO of electric-truck wunderkind Rivian Automotive Inc — with its valuation soaring past $100 billion on zero revenue — perfectly captured the madness in autos in 2021. It was actually Rivian’s first quarterly results, when the company said it would miss its production target by “a few hundred” vehicles. Ever alert to any ripples in ...

  The Biden administration desperately needs a win on inflation, and cutting the price Americans pay for beef would have an immediate impact on most families. Yet the prescription unveiled by the White House this week to boost competition in the highly concentrated meat sector, while prudent, won’t make much of a dent on meat prices, at least not for ...