Lukas I. Alpert formerly covered newspapers and digital media for The Wall Street Journal in New York. He previously was a correspondent in the Moscow bureau.

One of the lessons of “‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer,’” Mary Beth Norton’s delightful compendium of 17th-century advice to the lovelorn, is a sobering one to us today: Things that we ...

As we approach the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day on Thursday, we are reminded of a pivotal moment in history when the Allied forces accepted Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender ...

Breaking news and daily updates will not be a priority for ... The digital launch comes alongside the continuation of the weekly print edition of The Observer, with the first edition under ...

In a 2022 article in Daedalus, Erik Brynjolfsson argued that today’s key challenge is steering ... Published in the print edition of the April 21, 2025, issue, with the headline “Luddite ...

The skilled labor shortage not only hampers reshoring but could have long-term consequences for the U.S. economy. The Manufacturing Institute forecasts a workforce shortage of 1.9 million people by ...

Journal Editorial Report: Can President Trump blame Joe Biden for a shrinking GDP? Readers of this paper know better than anyone: Wall Street has experienced historic success over the last four ...

Follow for live updates on stocks, bonds and other markets, including the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite, as Trump's tariffs and the trade war with China continue to affect ...

President Trump insisted that the U.S. economy is ‘going to do fantastically’ during an interview with NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’ Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images WEST PALM BEACH, Fla ...

He helped design and implement the survey from 2010 to 2018, a period when many Americans were shifting from paying in cash to using electronic payments for even their most mundane daily purchases.

The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ...

Has King Dollar been dethroned? Harvard economist Ken Rogoff joins WSJ’s Take On the Week Podcast to talk about why he thinks the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar is in decline, what this could ...