Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The projections in the president's new budget indicate that for the first time since 1969, balance i

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

Say goodbye to another pillar of President Clinton's illusory bridge to the 21st century - the Multi

The economic forces of globalization are also leading to political fragmentation that results in mor

Houmani Farahani, a 22-year-old conscript soldier in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, stands in fro

Will the International Monetary Fund have to bail out New York state? New York is hardly the next As

Even the greatest of Russians has been known to make stupid counting mistakes.In his 1834 pa

The United States has led in transforming highly regulated, sleepy industries like airlines and tele

International financial markets are at a crossroads.The decline in Asian emerging equity mar

For the fifth time in 16 months, Richard McDowell is heading to Baghdad - in direct violation of fed

I have been recently contacted by someone who has been looking into the possibility of exporting som

Sea power has long been one of America's strongest assets in maintaining our world leadership. As cu

The first time Boris Yeltsin warned that American air strikes on Iraq could lead to World War III, a

When they're all singing the same lines on Capitol Hill and in the White House about orchestrating g

An independent arbitration panel found U.S. import quotas and duties on Mexican handmade corn brooms

Washington and Tokyo are in a dialogue of the deaf. Clinton administration officials urge Japan to d

Monica Lewinsky has a lot to answer for in Europe.The way continental Europeans see it, Pres

As Bruce Barnard mentions on these pages, British Prime Minister Tony Blair may have been a hit in W

In something of an anticlimax, the White House last week finally admitted that President Clinton has

Japan is down, mired in a returning ''recession,'' though it's not official yet. But being the secon