Commentary

It has often been said - mostly by lawyers - that the United States is a nation of laws, not men.

FOREIGN CRUISESHIPS UNFAIRIn an editorial earlier this year (Jan. 28, Page 6A) and in opinio

Once again, China is combining puny free-trade concessions with robust rhetoric in its bid for World

Due to an editing error, an opinion article on Oct. 9 on page 8A by Claude E. Barfield, ''Standing f

Hong Kong's first post-colonial administrator, Tung Chee-hwa, has spent his first 100 days in office

The European Union and the United States are in the midst of Helms-Burton Two - a renewal of their l

The U.S. financial services industry is consolidating gradually, but drastically.On the bank

President Clinton arrives in Venezuela on Sunday before continuing on to Brazil and Argentina as par

American women overwhelmingly view the changes of the last few years as positive both personally and

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan caught investors' attention Wednesday when he warned that th

The World Trade Organization is about to be tested again, when a dispute settlement panel rules shor

Are you a victim of merger mania? During the first half of this year, there were more than $418 bill

When Congress passed the big telecommunications act in 1996, lawmakers gave the Federal Communicatio

A shadow hangs over President Clinton's visit this week to South America.As he travels to Ve

Milton Friedman, Nobel laureate in economics, has long argued that government regulatory monopolies

The main objective of the European Union's transport policy is to enhance freight and passenger move

GENERAL ORDERRECONSIDEREDYour editorial about general average on Sept. 25 on Page 8A is misi

When President Boris Yeltsin announced in September, that he will not run for another term as Russia

Switzerland's image has been stained recently by its handling of the Nazi gold scandal, but it has m

Human beings use a reported 5 percent of their brain power. Companies, as any employee can testify,

Ten years ago, in the Majlis (parliament) in Tehran, President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani crowed w

As a part of the current drive to renew the president's fast-track authority, labor and environmenta

While the global spotlight naturally focuses on fast fixes to urgent problems, such as putting out f

Brenda Barnes and Andy Green would seem to have little in common - apart from the headlines they rec

Are American farm organizations derailing their own future with quibbles over ''fast track'' trade-n

In a move restoring some reason to U.S. foreign policy, the Clinton administration is reportedly con

Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is mightily peeved at the French for signing a $2 billion natu

Taking up the most important civil rights case in 20 years, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to dec

POLITICAL POSTURING FROMINSURANCE COMMISSIONERWe wish to respond to a contention made earlie

Remember your economic and political history lessons: colonialism; financial capitalism; economic im

Say ''FBI,'' and most people think of crusading agents in conservative suits swooping down on the so

Normality is returning to Europe just in time.Helmut Kohl, Germany's longest-serving chancel

Some dangerous ideas are being tossed around in the name of cleaning up our campaign finance system.

Taiwan on Monday ordered checks on imported U.S. beef for a potentially lethal strain of E. coli bac

The United States took India to the World Trade Organization Monday in a bid to end Delhi's ban on o

He has been called wily, bodacious, Machiavellian, cunning, aggressive, brazen. While half of Washin

TEXTILE ISSUECLARIFIEDI refer to The Journal of Commerce's article entitled ''Hong Kong laud

One of the lesser-known phenomena on Capitol Hill is the financial triumph of medical research. Cong

Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., may reflect the left wing of the House on trade and labor issues, but la

It's a brave government that opens itself to accusations of ''unilateral disarmament'' from politica