Commentary

Despite resistance, Congress appears to be moving gradually toward a new consensus on unilateral san

If only Postmaster William J. Henderson would get a memo from a staff member that reads like this:

Remember corporate welfare? Republicans in Congress promised a ''frontal assault'' against unwarrant

Libya's Moammar Gadhafi, whose relevance on the world stage has slipped so badly he is reduced to ho

The universal consensus is that Asia is truly a mess. Across the region, one country after another -

Japan's deepening economic and political problems have added a new and frightening dimension to the

The Chinese, it turns out, weren't overly impressed with all the hype about President Clinton's supp

So you step outside on midnight, Dec. 31, 1999, to welcome in the New Year and the new century and a

In an open letter to General Electric employees earlier this year, Chief Executive Jack Welch descri

Americans treasure their independence as a nation and their personal freedom under the Constitution.

Argentine Economy Vice Minister Carlos Rodriguez resigned Wednesday night out of dissatisfaction wit

Foreign policy is often an intangible thing, something that we all know is important to our security

A couple of panels were assembled recently by political consultant Jennifer Laszlo, and the consensu

The Clintons' failure to understand that publicly paid staff shouldn't be conducting private busines

Inevitably, South Africa's currency, the rand, has been caught in the contagion affecting emerging-m

In this era of ''reinventing government,'' the ugly hands of big government often are cloaked by the

In the movie Annie Hall, Woody Allen's character laments living in Los Angeles, where the only cultu

President Clinton's summit in Beijing showed that China is not prepared to negotiate seriously on Wo

The Clinton administration can take credit for encouraging competition in important sectors of the e

The Chinese economy is exposed to Japan through trade, through capital flows and through the impact

MODERNIZE FREIGHTFORWARDER RULESThe battle being waged between large and small forwarders re

Martin Gilman is short, bald and ingratiating. He looks up to Anatoly Chubais, Russia's foreign debt

Is Russia worth it? No country on the road to economic reform has been more disappointing - or more

To understand why so many Americans are cynical, consider the case of John Rambo. The former longsho

Anyone familiar with the shipping industry has heard the sentiment attributed to Thermistocles more

Campaign finance reform is back. Declared dead in the Senate after its supporters failed to overcome

U.S. exports bring in billions of dollars for the U.S. economy and account for millions of high-payi

The very public sight last week of the European Commission sitting in judgment on the business strat

In this year of political brinkmanship, Congress has sent President Clinton a bill he can't refuse -

In late June, the Supreme Court declared the Line Item Veto Act unconstitutional by a 6-3 vote. That

'DUTY FREE' ARTICLEPAINTS FALSE IMAGEYour June 16 article on airport duty-free trade (''Airp

In less than a year, more than 65,000 U.S. industries that use hazardous substances will have to rep

The Caspian basin and its energy resources are receiving great attention from governments and oil co

After he downed a few too many beers with some Bundestag colleagues one night in the 1980s, Gerhard

It was always more a question of when, not if, the International Monetary Fund would provide another

After two years of delay, the proposed alliance between British Airways and American Airlines seems

Supermodel Christy Turlington lowers her newspaper and conspiratorially enlists North Americans to p

If you drew a symbolic picture of the big Citibank-Travelers merger, you might depict two financial

Counterfeit goods entering the United States are a growing problem for law enforcement. When U.S. Cu

The next time you are driving your automobile, check your rearview mirror. The eyes that you see are