The TDs formed an orderly queue at precisely 5.18pm yesterday and with heavy hearts they clambered aboard the ‘Brexit Omnibus’. The full title of this monster draft law – ‘The Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2019’ – is not something you would be advised to venture saying after […]

BANGALORE, India — Fifteen years ago I came to Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley, to do a documentary on outsourcing. One of our first stops was a company called 24/7 whose main business was answering customer service calls and selling products, like credit cards, for U.S. companies half a world away. The beating heart of 24/7 […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good evening. Here’s the latest. 1. The House passed a resolution to block President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency on the Mexican border, with a handful of Republicans joining Democrats. The resolution will be taken up by mid-March in the Senate. Three Republican senators […]

Dianne Feinstein doesn’t get it. How could she? She’s 85. Ancient. She has had too many decades to resign herself to the status quo, and she won’t be around to watch the fires rage and the oceans boil. Step aside, Granny. Sturdier legs will lead the way. That was the subtext — actually, that was […]

Drug company executives faced tough questions from Congress on Tuesday as they attempted to explain why, thanks to high drug prices, per capita spending on pharmaceuticals in the United States is double the average of other advanced countries. For decades, American drug makers have justified these high prices by asserting that the higher profits they […]

There are more than a million and a half nonprofit organizations in the United States, and more are being born every day. But for all the writing about how nonprofits can be founded and scaled, almost no one publicly interrogates the other end of the life cycle: What happens when a nonprofit dies? The Nonprofit […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – Hyundai Mobis Co Ltd, under pressure from activist investor Elliott Management Corp to address its excess capital and governance structure, announced a smaller-than-sought 2.6 trillion won ($2.3 billion) shareholder return package. The de facto holding company of South Korea’s top automaker Hyundai Motor rejected a 2.5 trillion won dividend demanded by Elliott […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. Surprises from Jeremy Corbyn in Britain, the foreign minister in Iran and astrophysicists all over. Here’s the latest: Labour Party shifts on a second Brexit referendum Facing a rash of resignations from Labour and the prospect of more, the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, […]

It seems the best we can hope for now is to spend months or even years more talking about Brexit. Apparently that’s the “rational” solution at this stage – just a month from the UK’s scheduled exit from the European Union after 46 years. But there’s nothing rational about Brexiteers who are determined to get […]

To many Roman Catholics worldwide, the very fact of senior bishops listening to victims of clerical sexual abuse and the pope condemning the evil in vivid language no doubt came as a shock. The main body of the church has long shifted away from the United States and Western Europe, and the faithful in Africa, […]