The many uses of democracy
The G7 countries and the Commonwealth have now made democracy and human rights a professed plank of their foreign policy, and are ready to condemn military coups and the like with greater alacrity.

Benign Bush, grumpy Gore?
As someone said, the rest of the world should have votes in the US presidential election considering how much, in international terms, hangs upon who sits in the Oval office.

Doing business the ethical way
The idea that big business should have a social conscience and help provide public services smacks all too readily of 19th-century philanthropy.