Why has the US stock market done so well in recent months--the Dow increased over 30% since its low on March 11, 2003, and closed above 10,0…

George W. Bush has done more to wreck US economic policy than any other President in American history, exceeding even his mentor, Ronald Rea…

Georgia will receive its Christmas and New Year's present late this year, but the wait will be worth it. For the presidential election to ch…

What will the next year bring for the world economy? What will happen to production in the developing world, and in the rich industrial core…

In the 1990's Latin Americans were patted on the back for ridding themselves, at long last, of the military dictators that had blighted the …

Now that Saddam Hussein has been captured, the world's attention has turned to his trial. Should Saddam be tried by Iraqis in Iraq, or shoul…

So far, al-Qaeda has successfully inflamed the dreaded "clash of civilizations." When its terrorists struck America in 2001, they seemed to …

Today few scientists doubt that Earth's atmosphere is warming. Most also agree that the rate of heating is accelerating and that the consequ…

"We must see to it that the pig--this animal that we, the Romanian nation, cannot afford to live without--is not wiped out." So a socialist …

A few years ago, a local Internet entrepreneur was arrested in Ghana, her employees jailed and her computer equipment confiscated. Her crime…

Why do popular and elite perceptions of globalization clash? People in the rich world think globalization resembles an implacably malignant …

How do we judge the quality of public services? That question is far trickier than it appears. In some cases the answer seems simple enough:…

For many Africans, the current impasse in WTO negotiations is an old, familiar story--the wealthy family that neglects its rural relatives--…

The Franco-German axis is proving a nightmare for European unity. Within a single month, Gerhard Schroeder's Germany and Jacques Chirac's Fr…

The European summit in Brussels this weekend was intended to equip the European Union with a constitution that would enable it to handle the…

Despite occasional grumbles from politicians, no one seriously doubts the European Central Bank's independence, or that monetary policy with…

Proposals for economic reform of Continental Europe keep coming. The process does not constitute a unified, reasoned debate so much as an on…

Long before Russia's Duma election on December 7th, one could predict the outcome: victory for the Edinstvo (Unity) party, President Vladi…

For over a decade, American strategic thinking has focused on China's emergence as a great power in East Asia. Such thinking is passé. China…

In progressive liberal circles, the demand that the Preamble to the Constitution of the European Union include a reference to God and/or the…

Around the world, there is concern about the arrest of Russian oil billionaire Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The worry is that Russia may be backtra…

Money and its role in American politics is a subject of constant debate. Despite many attempts at reform, the funds spent on US national ele…

After eight years of explosive growth, there are now almost as many internet users in China as there are members of the 70-million-strong Co…

In 1897, the House of Representatives in the US state of Indiana unanimously passed legislation that redefined the calculation of the value …

Elections in Russia usually somehow signal a political crisis: Boris Yeltsin's re-election as President in 1996, for example, seemed to hold…