How Chinese ships wall off the sea This is what it looks like when a Chinese naval vessel bears down on your boat, as experienced firsthand by our reporters, who were on board a Philippine-flagged fishing vessel. They were reporting…
Sept. 24, 2023 12:00 pm ET SUZUKA, Japan—Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen thought this season would be a little closer, if he’s being honest. He expected his Red Bull car to be above the rest of the field, but…
Dana Perino can punch and parry with the best of them. But she could be better at ducking. In 2008, when Ms. Perino was the White House press secretary for President George W. Bush, she got clocked in the face…
Listen to article (1 minute) Hawaiian Electric regularly fell behind on plans to replace tens of thousands of utility poles at risk of failure and spent millions less on upgrades than it planned in the years before a wildfire destroyed…
Higher interest rates are proving a boon to U.K. defined-benefit pension plans, while causing a headache for many of the private-equity firms that manage money for the systems. The steady increase in U.K. interest rates since the start of last…
Sept. 24, 2023 5:30 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) An award-winning Harvard Business School professor and researcher spent years exploring the reasons people lie and cheat. A trio of behavioral scientists examining a handful of her academic papers…
Former president’s effort to reverse his 2020 election defeat drew from earlier claims of rigged campaigns. He’s opening the same playbook for 2024. Donald Trump addressing supporters from the Ellipse near the White House on Jan. 6, 2021. Mandel Ngan/Agence…
She was a trailblazing professor and ethnographer from the Uyghur ethnic group in far-western China who documented the religious and cultural traditions of her people. She was at the height of a career that the Chinese government had once recognized…
It was the tail end of another long, hot Tokyo summer, and salarymen across the city were looking at their wardrobes with dread. Every year from May to September, Japan’s famously conservative corporate workers and government employees set aside their…
Early in the war, the West was shocked at the Russian military’s poor performance. But Moscow has fixed many errors and adapted on the battlefield. Russia’s practice of piling tires on bombers at some of its bases could be an…