Leaders

Agreeing to be nice does not solve America’s problems

Yes, yes, but sometimes it really is gold. And risk takers, including those who snapped up the shares of Bre-X, should be applauded not jeered

More than ever, foreign ownership of media businesses is the friend of pluralism. Legal barriers to foreigners should be scrapped

And the will to enforce them

Surprising its friends as much as its foes, Britain’s new Labour government has begun boldly, by giving independence to the Bank of England

Labour’s landslide

IBM’s chess-playing computer may see beating Garry Kasparov as a leap forward for artificial intelligence. Sucker

Constitutional reform, not an army coup, is the way to do it

A chance to even up old scores

A good idea eventually, but not now