There is little doubt that Sarbanes-Oxleyis causing a huge wastage of shareholders' money under the Orwellian motto of protecting the shareholders.

When candidates flip-flop, their poll numbers suffer, but when countries flip-flop, entire economies suffer. This scenario is playing out in India after the government flip-flopped on its decision to allow retail giants such as Wal-Mart to own a majority 51% stake in joint operations with a local partner.

This book argues that water markets introduce flexibility, reduce waste, allow fairer distribution andmore rational development of new resources, and therefore smaller environmental impacts.

If the World Health Organizationfumbled with Roll Back Malaria, why should they be trusted in the pole position of the latest global campaign, to treat three millionAIDS patients by 2005?

How will the administration's big bet with India pay off in the future?

Renewed fighting in Afghanistan could call for a new strategy.

Reaffirming the principle that nascent life not be destroyed for the sake of research,Bush chose to permit federal funds to be used for research only on already existing embryonic stem cell lines.