Business and Economics | Opinion

Default settings on devices allow the tech industry to keep collecting and using data as it wants.

Silicon Valley has immersed us in an expensive, pervasive and perennially annoying type of automated capitalism.

In a break from the past, the Western world’s wealthiest people no longer try to support the societies they live in.

The Justice Department has been losing ground in the fight against financial fraud for years.

America needs to invest in mining and build resilient supply chains for the building blocks of electric batteries.

The justices should remember that the First Amendment’s highest purpose is to protect the speech that’s necessary to democracy.

By doubling down on fossil fuels, Exxon Mobil is choosing to profit through the most harmful way to the rest of us.

Political repression can’t save the Chinese economy.

As China stumbles, Ohio rebounds.

What Sohrab Ahmari’s doubts say about his former cause — and about the economy and culture.