Commentary

When the allegations surrounding President Clinton and former White House intern Monica Lewinsky sur

The House this week is expected to pass a bill extending new apparel trade benefits to Africa, ahead

With the next millennium in sight, New Europe is casting adrift from Old Europe.The future w

Britons are famous for their stiff upper lips, but they can also put their stomachs on the line for

U.S. exporters may soon get a tax break, but it's the Supreme Court, not tax-cutting Republicans, wh

Warnings by semiconductor maker Intel Corp. late last week that earnings would drop sent global sto

A CRASH COURSEIN TRUCK STATSYour recent Feb. 19, front-page story ''In high gear: debate ove

It's two o'clock in the morning inside a modest gray-painted apartment in the Swiss town of Berne. T

U.S.-Chinese maritime relations, which have been on the upswing, face another key test in a round of

Big companies regularly get bad press, but they're a vital part of modern economies. In addition to

The container shipping industry needs to take a hard, cold look at itself. For far too long it has s

Less than 500 working days are left to immunize computers against the millennium bug - the potential

Will the economic crisis in East Asia have a silver lining? That depends on whether the blame is u

During the standoff with Iraq, U.S. public opinion was strongly divided on what to do. The president

A common theme running through many of President Clinton's recent domestic policy initiatives has be

Adecade ago, Asia criticized the United States for its laziness and inability to change with the tim

The worst of Asia's financial crisis may be over, but its financial outlook is far from improving. T

China's National People's Congress, which opened Thursday, reeks of Socialist pomp as soldiers march

PHILADELPHIA STORYA BUNCH OF HOOEYYour negative piece entitled ''Philadelphia story'' (Feb.

JONES ACT DRIVESUS JOBS OVERSEASWhat a thrill - Anthony Poplawski's and George Ryan's fictio

BY DENNIS T. AVERYU.S. farmers have suddenly fallen into deep trouble. Washington's turmoil

Mel Gibson's paranoid character in the movie ''Conspiracy Theory'' suggests that the International M

While Washington pats itself on the back for a budget surplus - the real credit should go to a boomi

U.S. trade interests may be facing a new but invisible foe in their battle against unilateral sancti

Contrary to what you've heard, these are good times for American science. But in a departure from re

The many words of Congress are taken down each day by 16 stenotype reporters, transcribed by 50 typi

International expertise continues in great demand as globalization rolls on, but the stereotypical e

When the leader of a small Southeast European country arrives in Washington in the midst of a loomin

Three years ago, in the wake of Republican victories all over the country, much was uncertain about

Bank capital adequacy standards may not be the subject of many best-sellers, but recent events in As

Anyone who has followed developments in Canada for very long should be quite pleased with the econom

Argentina has received strong marks for its 1994 privatization of Puerto Nuevo, which serves Buenos

The Group of 7 came and saw London late last month but failed to conquer it.Sure, they made

Uneasy lies the head that wears a corporate crown. It seems that life in the boardroom and the corpo

As incredible as it might seem, a few important things are going on in the world besides the confron

The sparring over how Denver's Regional Transportation District should be run has obscured a more fu

The continued fallout from Union Pacific's problematic acquisition of Southern Pacific, its systemwi

When the U.S. government created the Internet as a defense-based research tool, it never dreamed t

It is frequently said that we live in an information age, that never before have so much data and an

The recent decision by the Surface Transportation Board to open an investigation into railroad marke