India Is on a Hiring Binge That Trump’s Tariffs Can’t Stop

India Is on a Hiring Binge That Trump’s Tariffs Can’t Stop

In India’s most advanced cities, American companies are racing to set up more and bigger offshore campuses: fully staffed offices with high-skilled Indian professionals, performing functions vital to global business. The concentration is most stark in bits of Bengaluru. Apul Nahata of RapidAI, a Silicon Valley-based medical technology company that …

Read more

FDA Approved Artificial Blood Vessel Despite Warnings

FDA Approved Artificial Blood Vessel Despite Warnings

When the biotech company Humacyte designed a study to see if its lab-grown blood vessel worked, it decided to measure whether blood was flowing freely through the high-tech tube 30 days after it was implanted in a person. As those days passed, some of the 54 patients in the study …

Read more

Trump Did What Castros Couldn’t: Take Radio Martí Off the Air

Trump Did What Castros Couldn’t: Take Radio Martí Off the Air

Journalists from Radio Martí, the U.S. federally-funded news outlet aimed at communist Cuba, were in the middle of interviewing a Cuban activist in Miami on a recent Saturday when bleak looks suddenly came over their faces. The 40-year-old news agency, designed to send uncensored news in Spanish into Cuba, had …

Read more

Taiwan President Takes Tougher Stance Toward China

Taiwan President Takes Tougher Stance Toward China

After Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, launched a broad drive this month against what he warned was expanding Chinese subversion and spying, the backlash was swift. Across the Taiwan Strait, Beijing hit back, sending a surge of military planes and ships near the island and warning that he was “playing with …

Read more

Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say

Trump’s Judicial Defiance Is New to the Autocrat Playbook, Experts Say

President Trump’s intensifying conflict with the federal courts is unusually aggressive compared with similar disputes in other countries, according to scholars. Unlike leaders who subverted or restructured the courts, Mr. Trump is acting as if judges were already too weak to constrain his power. “Honest to god, I’ve never seen …

Read more