Amazon.com Inc’s ubiquitous cloud-computing network, the spine for a lot of digital communications and transactions across the US, went dark for several hours. The cloud has provided bounteous advantages but also excess — a cornucopia of nice-to-haves, much of it silly. Even comparisons don’t truly surface the most substantive threats to consider when digital meltdowns or significant hacks occur on ...

Should the House of Representatives be larger? A new paper by Lee Drutman, Jonathan D Cohen, Yuval Levin and Norman J Ornstein makes the case for a fairly modest increase of 150 seats, from the current 435. But 150? Or to put it another way: The pluses and minuses of expanding the House are pretty clear, but it’s a lot ...

Bloomberg Southwest Airlines Co is frustrated by the slow pace of federal certification of Boeing Co’s smallest 737 Max jet, an issue that could delay the carrier’s commercial debut of the aircraft late into next year. The concern stems from changes by the US Federal Aviation Administration and lawmakers giving regulators a larger role in the certification, drawing out that ...