Commentary

Few international companies can afford to ignore the potential of the Common Market of the South (Me

Recently, the U.S. Customs Service mounted a major offensive in the federal government's latest brai

''Clerk to produce,'' the overhead voice blares. ''Clerk to produce.''Suddenly my trance is

Two old ghosts have returned to haunt Canada: a falling currency and renewed talk of secession by Qu

You've got to love American companies. Coca-Cola, which has been successful of late selling soft dri

The Congo, perhaps unfairly, has always been a symbol of the anarchic. The horror of Joseph Conrad's

The world has been asking, ''Who will feed China?'' But the answer is already clear. China's rising

PANAMA IS READYTO TAKE OVER THE CANALHolger Jensen's July 31 article, ''Panama's crony capit

The U.S. attack on terrorist sites in Afghanistan and Sudan is dramatic evidence of the new and tort

Union Pacific Railroad, which has been plagued by service delays and congestion for more than a year

Look inside South Korean President Kim Dae-jung and you will find a man who is well-equipped intelle

Now that the Russian government has unpegged the ruble, ordered a restructuring of its domestic debt

Whenever the stock market drops, the pessimists and doomsayers rear up with predictions of further s

Giving children a childhood is a luxury that often separates a developed country from an underdevelo

Pat Buchanan's new book, ''The Great Betrayal,'' is both economics and social philosophy. Reviews of

Nellie Bly rounded the world in 80 days. Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic. Americans put the

The outlook for world financial markets hinges crucially on whether the yen halts its fall and Japan

Has Bill Clinton dodged another bullet? Mr. Clinton still faces serious charges as the Kenneth Starr

Down the street, work crews are renovating the old school building in my neighborhood. The project,

Like a torpedoed ship, Japan is sinking fast. A bad debt crisis has paralyzed its economy, and trill

Recently, the International Longshoremen's Association and the New York Shipping Association have ta

A look across Europe's employment map yields some interesting observations.Clearly, the rate

The United States has an obligation to assist Kenya and Tanzania in repairing the physical damage to

WATCH OUT FORTHOSE WINDMILLSPhilip Klasky's opinion article, ''The 'waste train' '' (July 24

While President Clinton endures the sizzling summer of Monica, Al Gore has become the nation's weath

The overall U.S. trade deficit narrowed a bit in June, but the shortfall with Asia's troubled econom

Support for privatizing Social Security has snowballed during the past year. The famous ''third rail

It borders on the Kafkaesque.The Clinton administration fails to enforce a law the president

With each tremor of the American stock market, heretofore considered immune to the year-old Asian cr

Bill Clinton never used the word ''lie'' in his extraordinary speech Monday evening, but that was th

The New York Yankees are prompting the rhetorical question: Is this the best team in the history of

Europe, the birthplace of political ideology, looks like its becoming its burial ground.The

Brunei is a tiny sultanate on the island of Borneo, awash in oil and satellite dishes, whose absolut

Russia's free fall accelerated Monday when the government effectively devalued the ruble, a new low

With the U.S. stock market's decline in recent weeks, political types cannot resist looking to Washi

AMTRAK CAN PROSPERWITH ENOUGH INVESTMENTIn his Aug. 5 opinion article, (''Amtrak vs. airline

In the midst of a tough re-election campaign, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., is posing as a champion

President Clinton's upcoming summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin comes at a critical moment

Even as Japan pursues broad reforms to reinvigorate its slumping economy, corruption at the core of

Americans, especially politicians, tend to think of China as a rapidly growing global giant, threate