British prime minister Tony Blair’s Berlin summit last week with French president Jacques Chirac and German chancellor Helmut Schroder raised fears in other European Union members that the three leaders were about to form a “super-core” that could preserve Franco-German dominance of the EU’s agenda even after the EU expands to 25 members in May. […]

Thursday’s announcement that a South Korean team has cloned human embryos and grown them to the point awhere they could be implanted in a surrogate mother makes one thing clear. The religious scruples of the George W. Bush administration, if continued, may prevent the United States from participating in the next economic “Big Thing.”

The George W. Bush administration’s 2004 Budget announced Monday aroused the ire of many conservatives and led me to wonder: if that archetypal small government Republican Calvin Coolidge were brought back to us in 2004, which way would he vote?

The International Monetary Fund announced Wednesday that it had voted to release $350 million of a $13.3 billion program to roll over outstanding IMF loans to Argentina. That decision reportedly met with considerable opposition in the IMF’s board, since Argentina is currently attempting to default on about 90 percent of its private sector outstanding debt, […]