Taylor Swift's juggernaut global tour has hit Asia, causing tensions between Singapore, the only Southeast Asian stop on her itinerary, and neighboring countries like Thailand, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
The deeply sad and dark news of Alexei Navalny's death at a Russian prison in the arctic made me remember my own run-in (alongside my former WSJ colleague Jacquie McNish) with Navalny via the private intelligence firm Black Cube.
