Europe is getting tough on the unvaccinated and protests are spreading

Elijah Cummings Includes a Concept for Republicans’from beyond the grave’

Elijah Cummings has been born to sharecroppers from the Jim Crow South. His narrative, similar to the real history of the USA, is lengthy and complicated, filled with dark stains but finally bending toward faith. “People who knew him knew that it had been worth and patriotism that mattered to himnot politics or party,” writes […]

Stocks’ worst start in 20 years challenged traders on Monday

The stock market’s record altitude was no deterrent to individual investors last month, who in true 2020 fashion ended the year snapping up shares. Their optimism was being tested again on Monday. Clients at both TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. and E*Trade Financial were upping their market exposure as 2020 powered to a close, buying shares […]

Trump is trying to cement his anti-China legacy. Will Biden dismantle it?

This is the web version of Eastworld, Fortune’s newsletter focused on business and technology in Asia. Subscribe here to get future editions in your inbox. Well, it has been an eventful week in Washington. And yet, amid the chaos, President Donald Trump on Tuesday found time to sign an executive order banning transactions with eight more Chinese […]