Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

To Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, it's the ''unholy alliance.''But Mr. Mugabe has done mo

The clock is ticking on two major international trade cases before the Supreme Court this term.<

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

How much is a flashlight worth?In the case of the U.S. Senate, it comes to about $190 millio

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

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

The French unemployed are striking, often violently, for more money. Yes, the 3 million-plus jobless

Arising tide floats all ships, be they yachts or dinghies. The rich get richer, but the poor get ric

If there is one thing the Mexican presidency is good at, it's spin-control.Never mind the re

Six years after the death of the Soviet Union, the United States finally has a new foreign policy fo

As the leading component of the Information Age, the Internet has aroused the curiosity and particip

The recent ouster of the free-market-oriented prime minister of Kazakstan and his replacement by the