Commentary

There is continuing debate on whether the U.S. government should allow the use of taxpayer money to

The new U.S.-Japan aviation agreement is not an open-skies agreement. It is nonetheless a good deal

JONES ACT REFORMERS WANTTO SACRIFICE AMERICAN JOBSRob Quartel and the Jones Act Reform Coali

Yes, Virginia, there is still a Latin America.Asia has been more than dominating the economi

U.S. high school seniors ranked near the bottom in a recent international exam in math and science,

Recently released reports about health care in New York state should be a cause of concern for Ameri

In testimony before the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee recently, Federal Reserve Chairman

BACKGROUND CHECKSNEED BACKGROUND DATAGreg Johnson's recent column on criminal records of pro

Despite seven years of economic expansion, combined with historically low unemployment, American cou

Insurance fraud is a $20 billion-a-year business in the United States and growing so rapidly that in

''Independence of judges is equally requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individual

With the financial crisis in East Asia winding down, the Congress is considering whether to appro

Employment ministers of the Group of Seven economic powers think they have found the Holy Grail of l

The International Monetary Fund is the world economy's equivalent of our Federal Reserve: a lender o

A Portuguese naval officer in Macau, Fernando Brito, took part in a peculiar ritual. Once a week he

Financial security and direct investment are the life blood of international trade. Thus, the announ

The move toward a European single currency is beginning to resemble a nightmare wedding: the partici

With price inflation virtually invisible in the U.S. economy, financial writers have been working ov

Ever since Asia's financial crisis broke, attention has been focused on short-run cures to stabilize

BELARUS IS NO WORSE THANREST OF EASTERN EUROPEI consider The Journal of Commerce's accusatio

United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has reportedly returned from Baghdad with a credible sol

Five years ago, President Boris Yeltsin used his annual February address to a joint session of Parli

So the International Monetary Fund, the global welfare agent for distressed despots and itinerant in

Despite the alarms of economic disaster sounded by many U.S. business leaders and conservative think

NATO's longstanding goal in Europe has been to keep the United States in, keep the Germans divided a

If your firm is engaged in making or selling hardware or software controlled under the International

Proponents of fundamental Social Security reform argue that the United States should look abroad for

Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., in a classic case of beating a dead horse, has embarked on a 500-mile cr

Brazil appears to have passed China as the chief target of U.S. retaliatory action for maritime poli

The IMF has rejected Indonesian President Suharto's proposed currency board for the rupiah. Although

President Suharto of Indonesia should wake up and smell the java. The world is a dramatically change

President Clinton's State of the Union pronouncement to ''save Social Security first'' by reserving

The Ukrainian government was delighted when South Korea's Daewoo agreed to invest $1.3 billion in th

American businesses have substantial stakes in the outcome of the debate over Social Security, not l

In its more meddlesome moments, Congress has been accused by local governments of trying to act as t

Police in Baden-Wurttemberg are scouring supermarket shelves for baby food poisoned by a blackmailer

One result of the scandal gripping the White House over President Clinton's reputed affair with a fe

America's political leaders are feeling rather proud of their deficit-cutting skills at the moment.

A federal district court ruling Tuesday, which held that Texas beef producers cannot use that state'

Golfer Casey Martin brought the controversial Americans with Disabilities Act to an unusual place: t