Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The states of California and Texas - which enroll a fifth of the nation's students - are in the proc

Driven by Asia's financial crisis, our trade deficit will expand significantly this year, perhaps by

The United States and Japan face immediate challenges with major implications for the global economy

World Wildlife Fund President Kathryn Fuller argued in this newspaper (''Green Trade Wanted'' April

Each warm evening this spring, Jordan Street has witnessed the elaborate mating rituals of the well-

President Clinton warned a group of evangelical Christian leaders Monday that the steady rise in U.S

Passenger ships today have a boatload full of technology that makes it unlikely they will ever star

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

Indonesia has taken another step to turn its beleaguered economy around by announcing changes to its

Gilbert F. Amelio is my hero.During his 17-month tenure as head of Apple Computer Inc., the

The recent findings of a World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel involving a U.S. law on s

The first impression of many visitors to Britain is the stretch of badly clogged highway between air

Some time this year, Congress will take up the treaty on climate change negotiated in Kyoto in late

The world watched in horror recently as nearly 100 ethnic Albanians, many of them civilians, were ki

President Clinton is critical of those in Congress in favor of scrapping the federal income tax and

The European Union is poised to launch a single currency, but it hasn't yet forged a proper single m

For years, experts looked upon East Asia as a model for Latin America's economic problems - and righ

The Kyoto treaty to reduce global warming faces stiff opposition in the U.S. Senate, fueled by labor

The Reagan-era philosophy included a strictly interpreted Constitution and a market-driven society p

It was an unusual challenge and one fraught with conflict: Draw a blueprint for building new citizen

Russia's wily President Boris Yeltsin showed anew his ability to gain and hold power through coups,

After years of standing on the shore, executives of Petroleos Mexicanos, Mexico's 60-year-old oil mo

Will he or won't he? The World Trade Organization, for- merly the General Agreement on Tariffs an