Commentary

Economic sanctions rarely make sense, but India's reckless nuclear tests this week justified the tou

LINKING COMMERCEAND CONSERVATIONIn an April 28 article, (''Conservation, commerce can coexis

Among the more ridiculous suggestions for solving Japan's and Asia's financial crises is the call fo

When the Malaysian-flagged tanker Petro Ranger disappeared in the South China Sea recently, maritime

The Group of 7 leaders meeting this week in Birmingham, England, will discuss the problems of global

U.S. employers recognize it takes more than money to attract and retain the best people.Labo

As leaders of the world's seven largest industrial democracies - and Russia - meet in Birmingham, En

If the news from India has been all bad, developments in China are more promising, at least economic

With Asia's financial and economic crisis heating up again, now is not the time to put more pressur

CUSTOMS MISLED EXPORTERSON HARBOR TAX REFUNDSShame on Customs!In a November 1994 Fed

The upcoming U.S.-European Union summit in London (May 18) and the 50-year General Agreement on Tari

The ''Good Friday Agreement'' on Northern Ireland is the most encompassing and promising peace initi

It's becoming clearer by the day that Asia's economic crisis is not over. Indonesia has been in the

Is Boris Berezovsky, Russia's billionaire financier, a schlemiel or a schlemazel? And as political a

Addressing students at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

Forget about markets. Focus on people. Markets exist to serve people, not the other way around.<

Hopeful sales reps of America's ''Big Six'' accounting firms are barnstorming China on what could we

Central Asia is a part of the world little known to most Americans. But the tiny republic of Armenia

Secrecy breeds suspicion, and suspicion is what now surrounds Gus Owen, one of two members of the Su

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment is too important to be allowed to lapse now that ministers

A half century ago, when Soviet forces cut off all land routes to West Berlin, U.S. ''candy bombers'

TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTNEED CLOSER LINKU.S. Trade Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky's comments on

Every self-respecting country should protect and defend its auto industry at all costs, right? That

This year, $20 billion of business will be done on the Internet. That's about the size of the econom

South Africa's gold mines have been on a downhill slide for more than a decade. The price of their p

A ''supplemental'' spending bill for almost a billion dollars in back dues to the United Nations was

Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater issued a strong statement recently saying the administration

TEXTILE PACTFALLS SHORTI am compelled to respond to the letter sent to you by Troy Cribb, th

President Clinton's unfortunate tendency to let base politics overwhelm his higher aspirations to li

The era of big government may be over but apparently not the era of big government buildings.

This year's U.S. congressional debates over funding of scientific research seem to have more to do w

In its third ballot, Russia's lower house of Parliament, the Duma, late last month confirmed Boris Y

Steps taken last weekend by 11 European Union nations toward eventually giving up their own currency

Globalization breaks down borders - sometimes literally in the case of the European Union, andsometi

Does it get any better than this? The U.S. economy was supposed to have long since slowed down, a vi

Nine years after its students rocked China's Communist leaders with their pro-democracy protests at

Should taxpayer money be used to develop technologies that will be licensed to foreign firms? That q

The Federal Reserve is back on center stage. It never completely left the stage, but the spotlight h

What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, as U.S. semiconductor makers absorbed bodyblows fr

Every time a U.S. jury trial ends in a controversial verdict, commentators propose that juries be ab