Peter Brooks spent three years building a thriving business as a consultant to startups, helping them hire marketing teams and design sales-and-growth strategies. Then 70% of his business vanished during a week in March as…
White House Considers Broad Federal Intervention to Secure…
Trump administration officials have talked about inserting the federal government deep into the private sector to stiffen global competition against Chinese telecom giant Huawei Technologies Co. The ideas, discussed intermittently with U.S. tech giants, private-equity…
Photos: Black Lives Matter Murals Painted Across America
Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Shutterstock In addition to approving the mural project, the city also renamed the area Black Lives Matter Plaza. The local Black Lives Matter chapter, however, on Twitter, called the mayor’s actions a stunt…
Train Drain
As coronavirus-related restrictions are lifted around the world with the reopening of economies, authorities face a new challenge: how to enforce social distancing and prevent new outbreaks while allowing more people to return to mass…
Coronavirus Is Taking a High Toll on Sweden’s…
When 81-year-old Jan Andersson fell ill with Covid-19 at a nursing home in the Swedish town of Märsta, a doctor consulted by phone ordered palliative care, including morphine, instead of trying to help him fend…
When Workers Can Live Anywhere, Many Ask: Why…
Gillian Holdstein and Jarred Roth were both in California for business in March when the pandemic hit. So the New Yorkers decided to stay for good. The couple chose to move to Sonoma about four…
Opioid-Addiction Treatment Is Limited by Shortage of Authorized…
For most of their medical care, 169,000 residents of Kenosha County, Wis., don’t have to go far. There are three hospitals and more than 75 primary-care physicians practicing in the county, which fronts Lake Michigan…
Photos and Voices of the George Floyd Protests:…
Allison Zaucha for The Wall Street Journal “We deserve to be heard and that we're tired. We're tired of all the things that we've seen and that it hurts us. We're tired of people just…