Commentary

When President Clinton met with his Brazilian counterpart last October, he was told, ''The new globa

The United States, in a move that should be accepted by acclamation, has proposed a World Trade Orga

Raymond W. Kelly, the muscular treasury undersecretary for enforcement, has been a weightlifter for

Long after the rubble has been swept away, residents of disaster-prone areas often face a financial

The middle-aged woman stood in the bitter cold, a small array of cheap barrettes and hairbands sprea

The U.S. economy continues to operate at a robust level of performance, but early warning signs are

The administration's message is getting through to Congress: If the developed countries don't respon

In keeping with the classic form of re-election years, congressional leaders have plans to spend the

As tobacco companies settle multibillion dollar cases with state governments over the health costs o

The recent financial crisis in East Asia has given China's leaders another headache in addition to t

Not long before the First World War plunged Europe into chaos, German novelist Thomas Mann rode a tr

Of all the challenges facing South Korea and the other cash-strapped ''tiger'' economies, none is mo

Recently I was asked by an owner of a 2-year-old health-care software company whether or not the com

Five years ago, when Paul Keating was prime minister of Australia, he firmly informed Queen Elizabet

The use of short-term capital controls to curb ''hot money'' flows to developing countries is an ide

The Clinton administration, applying its theory that all good things should be subsidized with tax d

Everyone has had the experience of hearing something different from what was said, or watching someo

The federal government, chartered by the U.S. Constitution to ''secure the blessings of liberty to o

Aconference last week that at one time was supposed to generate momentum in Congress for ''fast-trac

What gets front-page coverage when Monica Lewin- sky leaves Washington? It's the ''Free the Winnie

Who says there are no second acts in American life? Certainly not the third-generation hopefuls tryi

It was 1986, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood, R-Ore., was desperate to rescue a m

No one can reliably predict our economic or political future because actual events will depend on wh

Just as analysts thought the Asian crisis was over, the word from Seoul is that the Korean governmen

Alexei Ilyushenko, the prisoner the Russian government would rather forget, sits in a three-man cell

Until recently, America's public managers have too often resigned themselves to the legal entrenchme

The United States and Japan reached a historic aviation agreement last week that promises to send mo

Leaving aside increased income inequality, it is widely acknowledged that the last few years have be

One of the great World Trade Organization success stories has been its judicial system, which forces

Boris Yeltsin, the Russian president who thinks Japan and Germany are nuclear powers, predicted Worl

COMPANY REPUTATIONNO LAUGHING MATTER We are writing regarding the article titled ''Happy New

British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives here this week at a time of political peril for his friend

Struck by millennium fever, Sir Leon Brittan, the European Union's top trade official, has a grand v

In his State of the Union speech late last month, President Clinton said the ''overriding'' environm

China is renewing its efforts to woo its most implacable foe, Taiwan, less than two years after test

On Tuesday, Brazil announced a record January trade deficit of $717 million, up from $413 million a

Television's Oprah Winfrey didn't invent the game of scaring people about their food anymore than Bi

People who smoke at work are likely to be marked down on job performance because of it, reducing bot

Customs has a new plan to root out drugs from commercial shipments by helping Latin American enforce

LOWER PORT ASSESSMENTSREDUCE EVERYONE'S COSTSI am writing in response to a letter from John