Global investors are shocked to have discovered that China is run by Communists. Shares of online education companies collapsed last week after the government all but outlawed the industry, and internet behemoth Tencent Holdings Ltd. shed more than $50 billion of value at one point on Tuesday after…

A pandemic that’s killed close to 3 million people worldwide and shut down entire economies was always going to force a fundamental re-evaluation of life goals and priorities. The death of the office and the hollowing out of city centers are just two of the possible aftereffects that have loomed…