Celebrity is cool. But being a lady boss? That’s hot. Paris Hilton may be America’s most underrated businesswoman. The 37-year-old became a media darling almost 20 years ago with partying antics painstakingly chronicled in the tabloids. She then grew a love/hate relationship with audiences through “The Simple Life,” a reality TV show in which she played a ditzy blonde who seemingly didn’t know what Walmart was. For better or worse, the show—and her signature phrase “That’s hot!”— defined the...

SINGAPORE — This wealthy Southeast Asian city-state is trying to flatten the curve of new coronavirus infections, for the second time. As recently as late March, Singapore was lauded as a success story in the battle against the coronavirus. Two months after recording its first COVID-19 infection on Jan. 23, Singapore registered just 509 cases and two deaths. It had done so without instituting a lockdown, drawing praise from the World Health Organization for an approach based on targeted...

SINGAPORE — An expenses-paid fortnight’s stay in a four- or five-star hotel in downtown Singapore sounds like an extravagance in the midst of a global-health emergency. But that was the situation I found myself in last week after returning to Singapore, the country where I grew up. The Southeast Asian city-state, long a paragon of globalization, had started restricting entry to citizens and a select group of foreign residents. By late March, it was also ordering people with a recent history...

Dispatches from a Pandemic Cleaners trained to sanitize medical facilities are getting more shifts, but that comes with its own challenges. ‘I’m not going to be rich, but I can manage to live,’ says hospital cleaner Don LeBlanc, Jr. As health-care systems worldwide continue to battle the novel coronavirus pandemic, doctors and nurses are deservedly seen as heroes. But hospital cleaners, who also serve on the frontlines, don’t get nearly as much acclaim. While cleaners suited up in surgical...