Editor's Briefing
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (April 1–April 7)
This week in political economy.
Facebook acknowledged this week that the Cambridge Analytica data breach affected 87 million users (reportedly including 2.7 million Europeans)—37...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 24-March 31)
This week in political economy.
Still mired in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook’s terrible month became worse this week after BuzzFeed published a 2016...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 17-March 24)
This week in political economy.
The “techlash” against digital platforms went into hyperdrive this week, as Facebook became increasingly embroiled in the Cambridge Analytica...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (March 3-March 10)
This week in political economy.
ProPublica has created a searchable database of 2,475 political appointees by the Trump administration, the result of “a year...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 17–Feb. 24)
This week in political economy.
Is the US economy being strangled by a lack of competition? In the Harvard Business Review, David Wessel provides...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Feb. 2–Feb. 10)
This week in political economy.
India’s competition authority imposed a 1.36 billion rupees ($21.1 million) fine on Google after it found the company guilty...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Jan. 20–29)
This week in political economy.
The world's political and business elites gathered in Davos this week for the annual meeting of the World Economic...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Jan. 13–20)
This week in political economy.
The backlash against big tech that began in 2017 continues in earnest. The Economist’s cover story this week: “How to...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Jan. 5–13)
This week in political economy.
Facebook is embarking on a radical overhaul of its news feed, emphasizing status updates from friends and family and...
Editors’ Briefing: On Our Radar This Week (Dec. 16–22)
This week in political economy.
Eric Schmidt is stepping down as executive chairman of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. Schmidt, who joined Google...
