Commentary

Minnesota's newly elected governor, a former pro fessional wrestler known as Jesse ''The Body'' Ven

President Clinton, at the White House conference on women and retirement, delivered two messages: wo

The commissioner shortage at the Surface Transportation Board is reaching a critical stage.T

The information revolution is arriving in Latin America - but it's slow, uneven, and expensive.<

One of the justifications Anatoly Chubais, the most durable of Russia's economic reformers, gives fo

Mention the CIA at any respectable gathering of radicals 25 years ago and, after a surreptitious loo

As the Asian economic crisis spreads around the world, a predictable increase in imports has begun.

The irresistible force of American passenger-vehicle preferences is headed for the immovable object

You're sitting behind your desk trying to get some information on Middlesex County in Connecticut vi

Ever since Neville Chamberlain's famously wrong remark prior to World War II, political and business

Europe's two rookie leaders have the power to steer the region toward a dynamic future or turn it ba

Butcher shops and banks may both sell tainted products. That is why both are subject to public inspe

For the past several years, Egypt has been conducting a quiet and remarkably successful revolution i

Poor antitrust lawyers. Once they were at the top of the heap. They could keep children up late tell

October featured two events of interest to space-travel enthusiasts.The first, John Glenn's

We've been through the Industrial Age and the Corporate Age. Now get ready for the Entrepreneurial A

When Dr. Edward Lincoln of the Brookings Institution made a passing suggestion in a Foreign Affairs

Congress's decision to allow more skilled foreign workers into the United States won understandable

Of all the panaceas currently being prescribed for the world's financial woes, increased transparenc

Nobody is throwing stuff yet, but the fight crowd is borderline ugly, which is good.You want

The young assistant was finishing the brochure, adding some final touches. She liked the look of its

John Glenn's successful return to space last week, 36 years and a career in the U.S. Senate since he

In the U.S. government's unfolding antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., there are many disputed d

American importers just got a bucket of ice-cold wa ter thrown in their collective face. If they had

Exactly 173 years ago this week, on Oct. 26, 1825, the Erie Canal opened in upstate New York.

''Capitalism has failed.'' That's the spin European socialists and American liberals are attaching t

Next month's meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Forum, APEC, was supposed to be a crowning moment

Serious questions arise following a recent U.S. District Court decision invalidating a portion of th

The Brazilian government's announcement of a long-awaited austerity program this week merits two res

President Clinton has unfavorably compared the 105th Congress to the ''Do Nothing'' Congress once ch

Sadly, some of America's political and legal institutions have always had a streak of envy. And so i

Amid these dicey economic times, let us not succumb to the temptation of protectionism as we did dur

Ted Prince's Oct. 15 column, ''Further tales of the drayman'' (Page 7A), was on target in many respe

In his superb book ''The Perfect Storm,'' author Sebastian Junger writes about a confluence of weath

Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed that ''a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, ado

Since 1981, when Ronald Reagan became president, many Americans have believed that ''Big Government'

Bankruptcy reform is dead. Like so many other proposed reforms, it fell victim to political warring

You might think corporations, with their multi-million-dollar information technology budgets, would

The European Union this week put into effect a law prohibiting the buying and selling of personal da

The recent saga of Long Term Capital Management showed both industrial and developing country banks