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Yvonne roberts To vote out the government now would end the dreams of a better society for all of us Perhaps the media are to blame or it might be [...]

America denies a visa to an extremist 'HE MAY be a mass murderer,' opined Vir Sanghvi in the Hindustan Times, the newspaper he edits, 'but he's our mass murderer.' Mr [...]

The politician and the snow bunny learn a harsh lesson HE WAS arrested for one offence and apologised for two. Kazuyoshi Nakanishi, a member of parliament for Japan's ruling Liberal [...]

A tale of two countries, one doing badly, the other well WHEN Czechoslovakia broke up in 1993, the fate of its successor states seemed obvious. Slovakia would drift deeper into [...]

Byline: Daniel Klaidman For Sen. Joseph Biden, it was a small bit of desert diplomacy, a chance to burnish foreign-policy credentials with Libya's flamboyant Muammar Kaddafi. (Kaddafi had just abruptly [...]

There is a new breed of politician in New York state these days-the fakers. These are legislators who have marched in lockstep behind Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority [...]

AU CONTRAIRE, GRAY LADY: An item in Tuesday's New York Times suggested that, while correct in spirit, WWD was wrong in fact in reporting that Stefano Pilati's debut Yves Saint [...]

Be nice to politicians. They live in a different world and need your help to understand this one. A governor asked a friend of mine for advice. 'Barry, when you [...]

The skills required to win power rarely come with those needed to wield it effectively. It is an irony Marx would enjoy (Groucho, not Karl). While corporate AGMs are becoming […]

Byline: Salem, Marc They're all accused of it. Here's how to identify it As we enter debate season, the credibility of the candidates is uppermost in everybody's mind. Sure, most [...]

TWO'S TROUBLE: 'Welcome to total chaos.' That was Georgie Frasch's reaction to having given birth to twins last Thursday at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. The set of babies, Honor [...]

The author explains how political candidates appeal to common sense while justifying their policies. An appeal to commonsense is usually an appeal to popular prejudice.

Byline: ALICIA MUNDY Will a man who cheats on his wife cheat on the public? Virginia voters faced that question a decade ago after enduring a stream of reports about […]

The model of public policy studied in this paper has heterogeneous citizens/voters and two public goods: one (roads) chosen directly by an elected policymaker, and the other (pollution) stochastically dependent on the amount of roads. Both a onecountry and a twocountry version of the model are analyzed; the latter displays externalities across the countries which create incentives for free riding and strategic delegation. The welfare effects of providing the policymaker with information about the relationship between roads and pollution are investigated, and it is shown that more information hurts somesometimes even allcitizens. In particular, the opportunity not to create an institution for information gathering can serve as a commitment device for a country, although with the unfortunate effect of making the overall outcome even worse. Implications for the welfare effects of 'informational lobbying' are also discussed.

Have you ever wondered what became of Sir Humphrey Appleby KCB, MVO, MA (Oxon), the Yes Minister master of doublespeak and creative policy that achieved the status quo? Current evidence [...]

WE HOPE THE sorry spectacle that took place during a House Ways and Means Committee vote on pension reform legislation does not impede further congressional action on the much-needed measure. [...]

When was the last time your 10-year-old eagerly read an 870-page book? It sure beats playing videogames like Grand Theft Auto Vice City. C.W. Bush = Saddam's alive, the Mideast [...]

Nothing and no one was sacred to the Brogan & Partners Convergence Marketing gang as they assembled their third 'Polisticks'' booklet for the Detroit Regional Chamber's Leadership Policy Conference on [...]

THERE IS ONE THING -- and sometimes it looks like the only thing -- on which Peter MacKay and Scott Brison agree. The rivalry between them is 'all business,' says [...]

It's Code Orange. The market's down even more. Deficits as far as the eye can see. NATO's on the rocks. Wind chill's way below zero. Help! C.W. Bush = War [...]

LEADERSHIP CONTESTS are often gory, internecine battles that nevertheless manage, somehow, to make the family stronger by generating new ideas and garnering attention. That hasn't been the case for the [...]

For our political system to work properly we all need to take a personal interest in the work product. It's called personal politics, and it's practiced most effectively by folks [...]

Fancy a nice cup of cocoa? British politicians should stick to the cocoa and biscuits SAD but typical. That is the fairest verdict on the frenzy surrounding Edwina Currie's diary, [...]

OF THE ISSUES that regularly confront Maclean's editorial staff, politics often results in the most pronounced divisions. Not, mind you, in the traditional sense -- with some people arguing in [...]

Their economy needs a firm hand. His has been that. Will they be able to vote for it to be so again? 'IT WAS very important to me to be [...]

Lorne Nystrom, 56, the former boy wonder of the NDP, who was first elected to the House of Commons when he was 22, has entered the race to replace Alexa [...]

BLINK LAST WEEK, and you might have missed him, even those of us nearby in the closely knit rural community where my family and I spend as much leisure time [...]

With Bush's poll ratings beginning to slip, the CW wonders what the prez will do to get his mojo back. It won't be giving SEC chief Harvey Pitt a raise. [...]

George W. Bush ordered the CIA to conduct a wide campaign of covert actions against Iraq, including using lethal force to capture dictator Saddam Hussein. 'It is not a silver [...]

Byline: Anna Quindlen In the 1970s the president of Haverford College became a totem for those who believed there was a schism between one America and another. John Coleman was [...]

Myanmar's military junta released opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after 19 months of house arrest. The move, which came as a result of secret talks launched by a UN [...]

Jean-Marie Le Pen's emergence as the sole challenger to President Jacques Chirac in the second round of France's presidential election has proved to be a Rorschach test for political journalists. […]

Small-l liberal journalists and politicians are quick to condemn conservatives whenever they uncover an example of what they deem to be 'intolerance.' But an incident last month, involving heckling in [...]

Pol Pot, the murderous Khmer Rouge leader, died in 1998 and was cremated on a pile of old trash in Anlong Veng. Now Phnom Penh officials hope to turn that [...]