Commentary

The designation of Guillermo Ortiz as the new governor of the Bank of Mexico has generated a storm o

Other than kangaroos, koala bears and Crocodile Dundee movies, most Americans don't know much about

Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., will be leaving the U.S. Senate at the end of the year, and no one will b

The great debate now raging in Washington over what to do with future federal budget surpluses has a

The myth and mystique surrounding Blackbeard - perhaps the most notorious pirate of all - has done m

Concerns about a shaky Russian economy could derail a U.S.-Russian science experiment that seeks to

For the moment, the luster is off Asia's once-blooming economies as currency and equity market uphea

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was bubbling the other day about the accomplishments of U.S. f

America's East Coast faced another classic environmental crisis last fall. Fish were dying from toxi

Every day, thousands of regulations cost people and companies money, muck up the economy and even th

As Congress reconvenes, it will be considering seven separate amendments to the Constitution. This m

Mercantilists are often quick to point out that ex- porting is a virtuous economic activity, produc

The United States and 150 other countries agreed last month in Japan to reduce global greenhouse gas

A dozen or more studies over the past 40 years have indicted the State Department as an abyss of sci

''Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics,'' the political scientist Walla

On Dec. 28, The Los Angeles Times ran a lead editorial cheering the ban on smoking in all California

There is more evidence that the 1996 telecom deregulation law isn't working. Cable TV companies, whi

With unemployment low across America, employers with the greatest staffing needs are creating unique

Earlier this century, the social stigma attached to psychiatry was so great that patients tried to g

For one of the pioneers of Semtex, the notorious and deadly plastic explosive, it seemed an appropri

In the past, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was a geographical, material and political cente

Most companies will pay skilled computer program mers to fix their millennium bug problems - wherei

Oh, Disney. You've done it again.First, it was the ''adult content'' warning that someone fo

There's too much politics in education,'' observed a veteran researcher in the field recently, and h

Despite worrisome reports about the Japanese banking and financial institutions, the sun is not sett

Massacres of unspeakable brutality have left an estimated 80,000 Algerians dead during six years of

If you opened the mailbox or turned on the tube this holiday season, you learned to expect your loca

In sacking Government Secretary Emilio Chuayffet Chemor on Jan. 3, Mexico's President Ernesto Zedill

With a keen eye for symbolism, British Prime Minister Tony Blair launched his government's six-month

As senior U.S. and International Monetary Fund officials descend on Jakarta this week to address Ind

A phone company in California recently began announcing one-stop shopping for telephone numbers. No

A unique combination of political forces is driving the legislative push to reduce corporate welfare

Top dogs in Congress think it's time to uproot the tax system and rewrite the code. More realistical

President Clinton is reportedly considering raising the minimum wage again. He should reconsider. To

For Republicans in Congress, it was perhaps the highlight of the year, the unveiling of tax cuts wor

Americans have discounted the economic crisis in Asia. The stock market fell sharply in late October

For the first time in American history, nearly half of the population lives in suburbs, and that sim

I don't often write columns wading into the legal aspects of the software wars, but all of us need t

Private credit rating agencies have taken quite a drubbing following the Asian financial meltdown. T

The strains of nativism are being heard again.President Clinton's latest trade initiative we