Two weeks before President George W. Bush takes office, the uncertainty that surrounded his election has been replaced by concerns about the…

Like everything else in our world, change in population is swifter than ever. The most profound changes in population, however, are not demo…

CAMBRIDGE: America’s long boom is at risk. Signs abound of an impending slowdown, even of recession. These dark clouds are gathering as tran…

PRAGUE - A dominant feature of Prague is the Gothic tower of the Cathedral of St. Vitus, St. Wenceslas and St. Adalbert. That tower is now …

“First thing we do,” wrote Shakespeare in Henry VI, Part II, “is kill all the lawyers.” Nowadays, the first thing countries trying to get ri…

China’s tortuous road toward membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO) is winding toward its end. Before China joins, however, the fi…

MOSCOW: Abuse of shareholders by managers and majority owners cripples foreign investment in Russia. No surprise, then, that improving corpo…

Can genes predispose a person to crime? Some American lawyers are now using such a “genetic defense” as mitigation for convicted murderers. …

KIEV: Chernobyl, the world’s most notorious nuclear power plant, will be shut down today, fourteen years after it spewed clouds of radioacti…

CAMBRIDGE: Without warning, Turkey dove into financial crisis. Within days, $6 billion in foreign exchange was lost defending the lira. Only…

WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Nice summit of EU leaders achieved few of its aims, but it did push the creation of a military identity for the EU, th…

LONDON: A hundred years ago, the humorous English magazine Punch carried a cartoon which depicted a young and nervous curate eating breakfas…

All the fashionable talk nowadays about computer “viruses” explains what these culprits do by forging an analogy to their biological namesak…

MOSCOW: Today, many people see Russia as undeserving of Western help, due to the chaos, corruption and defaults of the Yeltsin years, but al…

CAMBRIDGE: With Vincente Fox assuming Mexico’s Presidency on December 1, Mexico celebrates much more than a simple leadership transition. Fo…

MOSCOW: Being president of Russia is often caricatured as being like a tsar, but the powers of President Vladimir Putin are more constrained…

Who lost Russia? This question remains hotly debated in media and policy circles across the West. The question seems to presuppose, not only…

CAMBRIDGE: Efforts to make the world safe for investment bankers are underway once again. The IMF is preparing a bailout estimated at $20 bi…

The fall of Milosevic does not cure the political woes of the Balkans; indeed, it raises their urgency. Yugoslavia has disintegrated, but th…

BUCHAREST: “Paris,” Protestant King Henri of Navarre quipped before ascending the throne of Catholic France, “is worth a mass.” Is EU member…

SOFIA: Residents of the sleepy town of Schengen, near Luxembourg’s border with France and Germany, would marvel at the hatred in which their…

BEIJING: Continuing suppression of members of Falong Gong, a movement whose supporters continue to “step forward” to respond to their leader…

MILAN: Will books, through the power of computers and the internet, be transformed into boundless “hypertextual structures” in which the rea…

CAMBRIDGE: Debates about supply side reform often come down to slogans: flexible labor markets, deregulation, and more competition. Even whe…

BOSTON/ROME: Any reader of non-US newspapers could draw two conclusions about America’s electoral campaign: 1. that there is little differen…