Commentary

As with all legislation, the devil will be in the details when it comes to judging the merits of th

Coming up at bat in the national opinion pastime is the kinder, gentler Internal Revenue Service.

The stock market decline, which began abruptly in mid-July, is blamed on fears that Asian economic r

I had another encounter today with the math problem. Not my math problem, that is, but the problem t

Europe's single currency, the euro, will have a difficult birth, but it certainly won't be still-bor

As American relations with post-Communist Russia enter a new and more turbulent phase, a new biograp

Strange things happened at General Motors this summer. Huge swatches of its highly paid, coddled, un

You'll note some changes on these pages.Leo Abruzzese's name leaves the masthead after more

Hsiu-Lien Annette Lu has ambitious plans for Taoyuan, where she has served as county magistrate for

Greg Mastel's Aug. 31 opinion article, ''Dumping: Fact and fiction'' (Page 4A), reflects the continu

In what seems at first glance a gratuitous bow to political correctness, the U.S. Department of Tran

Plummeting U.S. exports to Asia will slash corporate profit, depress the stock market and dampen eco

Here are the top 10 non-reasons for a stock market panic:10) Mr. Clinton's presidency is thr

For rail labor, Labor Day 1998 is the best of times and the worst of times. The 180,000 members of m

What unions do - organize, negotiate, strike, engage in political action - is generally familiar; bu

When President Clinton spoke in Moscow of not going back to the past, he forgot to say what past he

Some of the same investors who thought we were living in a world of never-ending growth are now pani

Japan's worst nightmare is that a trigger-happy President Clinton, in a deadly variation on the ''Wa

Venezuela had its own problems before contagion came to its doorstep.In recent years, Presid

As professional football teams conclude their pre-season camps and prepare for the regular season, f

When historians talk about ''High Counters'' and ''Low Counters,'' the subject isn't kitchen design.

The failure of the International Monetary Fund's latest bailout of Russia should finally put to rest

The Fed may be preparing to adopt exactly the wrong policy in response to falling stock prices, rece

Dozens of heads of state and government converged on the South African city of Durban this week for

Much has been made of the fact that the Republicans are considering holding their next national conv

Only a few hours after financial disaster rocked Wall Street Monday, Americans were clamoring to get

The Hong Kong government has bought stocks massively to prevent a wholesale collapse in the financia

It's the credo of the corporate world: To get ahead, you've got to plan. Enter the army of strategic

Is the world headed for recession?Look at the evidence, and it's difficult to draw any other

It looked like countless other bills that arrive in the mail. It was computer-generated, printed on

In the spectrum of reasons for official acts in Washington, veteran observers know that a very small

It is now five years since I visited Russia. Then, as now, the international value of the ruble was

How things change. Two years ago, U.S. gold miners were experiencing steady growth, rising profit an

Germany, Europe's largest economy, is at a political crossroads. Later this month, Germans will deci

The sharp drop in the U.S. stock market and other stock markets around the world is being worsened b

America's Center for Food Safety and Nutrition, one of four critical regulatory units at the Food an

Vice President Al Gore has not yet presented the Senate with the global-warming treaty he negotiated

Marsh & McLennan's announcement of its intention to purchase Britain's Sedgwick Group PLC (''March &

It's pretty hard to ignore the fact that almost all the Islamic peoples of the Middle East fervently

With bomb-blackened Berlin collapsing around him in 1945, Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the dark