The world reads current reports from Afghanistan with revulsion: the Taliban’s revenge against supporters of the former government and Western forces, bloody chaos at the Kabul airport, and renewed repression of women. Yet it is also plain that the victorious extremists themselves are daunted by the challenge of assuming administrative responsibility for a nation that is bankrupt without Western financial ...

Space races are supposed to be won in engineering labs or up in orbit. Thanks to Jeff Bezos, the next one might be won in a courtroom or regulator’s office. As Bezos’s companies fall behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the race to return humans to the moon and launch satellite-based broadband services, they’re increasingly resorting to politics and legal filings ...

Leaders of the top US industrial companies gathered virtually for the annual Morgan Stanley Laguna conference. Unsurprisingly, much of the discussion centered around the rising cost of raw materials, labor and logistics and the increasingly difficult challenge of getting enough supply to keep up with demand. “The inflation is unprecedented,” 3M Co Chief Financial Officer Monish Patolawala said at the ...