Commentary

A yogurt container offers ironic testimony to the thesis of Lionel Jensen's new book, ''Manufacturin

With public decorum in mind, the savants of the house of science generally employ silencers and padd

With the rise of the Margaret Thatcher-Ronald Reagan era of the 1980s, a trans-Atlantic conservative

The European Union glimpsed a new golden age when it approved the launch of an 11-nation monetary un

Indonesian officials have fought to maintain subsidies and put off reforms during their Internationa

Are America's 77 million baby boomers actually prepared to retire? Experts say yes, cautiously, but

If Russia's new Prime Minister, Sergei Kiriyenko, is the unelectable stand-in most politicians in Mo

Following last month's Summit of the Americas, many believe the momentum has gone out of U.S. Latin

The Dutch will vote for a new government tomorrow, but apart from the candidates nobody is too worri

Plastic may be the gold standard for a new millennium, but people are very reluctant to give up note

In a season of clashes with Congress, the Clinton administration faces a major showdown this month w

NUMBERS GROWINGFOR CUSTOMS' AES I am writing in response to the March 19 article on Page 1A,

Hong Kong is protesting the U.S. Trade Representative's decision to keep it on the U.S. intellectual

After recording the strongest growth in the Group of 7 nations in 1996, Japan began tightening fisca

In remission after decades of irrational and costly prosecutions, antitrust enforcement is enjoying

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's decision last week to address Beijing's National Judges Coll

The weekly freight index of Maritime Research Inc. (January-December 1972 equals 100 percent) is as

Some business analysts have turned somewhat pessimistic about the U.S. economy recently, on the grou

Trade financing is the lifeblood of international trade. The Asian crisis is a case in point. Many A

Once Northern Ireland was the economic jewel of the Emerald Isle. The six counties had the coal and

Last week's Senate vote to admit Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic into the North Atlantic Trea

The gangplank has been rolled down, but Clinton administration officials apparently aren't ready to

I was standing in front of a bookstore shelf filled with foreign-language translation guides recentl

You almost feel sorry for the $200 billion International Monetary Fund, which times seems answerable

When President Clinton said he would use budget surpluses to ''fix'' Social Security, the ruse was o

The barmaid in the Zlata Ribica bar in Ljubljana's old town was surprised to be asked about Slovenia

The container shipping industry celebrated this week as carriers successfully raised rates in the tr

TOUGHER US LINENEEDED ON PARAGUAYYour article on the informal economy in Paraguay (''Toward

On April 2, the Senate Judiciary Committee by a bipartisan vote approved the American Competitivenes

Today and Saturday, European Union leaders plan to take a step that will either turn Europe into the

When Japan's Ministry of Finance, command center for the world's second-biggest economy, agreed to b

Today, Israel's official 50th anniversary, finds American and Israeli relations at a crossroads. Bot

The U.S. Trade Representative recently released its 1998 National Trade Estimates report outlining f

As Congress debates the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's merits this week, the organization must

The threatened end of a tax break that helps U.S. companies reduce taxes on their foreign operations

East Asia's financial meltdown has policy-makers scrambling for reasons, and solutions. What was rec

Boys at play sometimes divide sports teams between the ''shirts'' and the ''skins.''Those in

Charles Murray swung at a hornet's nest with his 1994 book ''The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class

Mexican officials agreed in Paris on Wednesday to eliminate tariffs beginning Aug. 1 on an estimate

The U.N. Commission on Human Rights dealt the United States a stinging diplomatic rebuff last week b