Leaders
America and the UN
Shameful all round
Voting the United States off the UN’s Human-Rights Commission is bad for human rights, bad for all concerned
Tony Blair’s challenge
Britain’s election drama
The conclusion may look foregone, but Tony Blair has much to prove in the run-up to June 7th
Israeli settlements
Stop building, please
The Mitchell report links Palestinian violence to Israeli settlement-building
Europe’s capital markets
Takeover troubles
The disarray over the EU’s takeover directive bodes ill for completion of its single financial market
Conservation
Saving the rainforest
Tropical forests need protection—and proper exploitation is the way to deliver it
Letters
Europe
Italy’s general election
Will Silvio Berlusconi romp home for the right?
Russia’s faltering economy
The glow begins to fade
Spain’s Basques go to the polls
Once more for the nationalists?
Germany’s pension reform
Go private, says the state
Germany’s poor east
More cash, please
France’s shame over Algeria
The chagrin and the belated pity
Italy’s dogged independents
Squeezed out?
Charlemagne
Bernard Tapie
Britain
Marginal seats
Swinging in Stroud
Shopping
The towns fight back
Campaign diary
On the trail
The general election
Now you can make me perfect
Interest rates
Down again
Tactical voting
Where has all the hatred gone?
Branding
Seeing purple
Scottish Conservatives
The undead
Bagehot
Lend me your ears
United States
The mid-west’s fight-back
Pulling the big bird
A new defence policy
The revolution continues
Talking about history
Kalamazoo, forsooth!
Lexington
A tale of two dynasties
Timothy McVeigh’s execution
A covenant with death
California’s power crisis
Praying for a cool August
The Americas
Canadian politics
British Columbia’s Liberal landslide
Venezuela and Montesinos
Spy’s rest home
Brazilian politics
Cracks open up beneath Cardoso
Corruption in Mexico
A pact with the angels
Asia
Chinese arrests of academics
When scholars become suspects
Unconvincing reform in Japan
Eyeing the debt mountain
Islam in Indonesia
God’s warriors and Wahid’s
Caspian pollution
Oil, caviare and worried eagles
China and Hong Kong
Jiang almost meets the Falun Gong
The Philippines’ election
The charm after the storm
International
West Africa’s three-country war
Diamonds are a war’s best friend
Iran’s clerics
The clergy in defence of their own
Syria and Judaism
The disappearance of the Jews
Zimbabwe’s judges
Standing firm, at least for now
Wagner in Israel
To play or not to play
Nigeria and Shell
Helping, but not developing
Development in poor countries
Not by their bootstraps alone
Business
Software
An open and shut case
Multinationals and lobbyists
Firm resolutions
GE/Honeywell
Turbulence
The satellite industry
Wounded birds
The Philippines’ San Miguel
An alcohol-fuelled fight
Publishing
Journal wars
Airlines
A crunch in the cockpit
Face value
Poacher or gamekeeper?
Shareholder activism
Europe’s revolting shareholders
Finance & economics
Asian currencies
Helping themselves
American trade policy
The new cosmopolitan
Economics focus
On the move
The Bank of Japan
Say please
The International Monetary Fund
Strains at the top
Telecoms debt
Unburdening
Human and social capital
What money can’t buy
Science & technology
Conservation in Brazil
Managing the rainforests
Culture
20th-century history
Why Germany made it global
Theatre
Nice costumes, though
New fiction
White on black
American politics
Inside straight
Travels in Central Asia
Monk on tour
Detective fiction