Commentary

The majority of America's work force is facing wage stagnation as companies seek to control costs by

Ted Turner might as well dump his billion dollars in the Zambezi River for all the good it's going t

An amazing fad has captured the imagination of preteens, a fad so mindless, so lacking in humane fea

Teamsters drivers who struck the United Parcel Service in August found strong sympathy among average

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

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

In light of the well-publicized downsizings of Fortune 500 companies, imagine this headline and acco

The Boys of the Sixties reassembled here recently to mark the 30th anniversary of the landmark Kenne

The front page of the Washington Post Sept. 20 was dominated by photographs of Michael Chang and Pet

As if Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party didn't have enough problems these days, a st

The summer of '97, like many before it, provided ample opportunities for outdoor activities, but in

The Surface Transportation Board is facing a decision on whether to grant the Southern Motor Carrier

The Cold War is over and the biggest menace to the United States and the free world - Communism - is

QUESTIONABLEECONOMICSWhatever your position on ''fast track'' authority in negotiating trade

The so-called fast-track legislation now before Congress would probably get more attention if it did

In the context of U.S. national security, the importance of Latin America has almost faded from memo

European leaders gather in Amsterdam today to sign the Treaty of Amsterdam, another truck stop on th

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone has a dilemma. It doesn't like foreign suppliers of parts, preferring

I have spent the past week trawling through the scripted and unscripted utterances of Prime Minister

THE PROUD HISTORYOF S/S AMERICAN VICTORYYour article of Sept. 10 concerning the James River

There are no wars to be fought or dictators to be dared and no communists or Mafia gangsters to be g

Forget that 5 cent cigar. What the world needs are railroaders capable of managing growth. The fello

A college campus filled with teen-agers and twentysomethings on a four-year, all-expense-paid holida

The famed agricultural heartland of Argentina known as the pampas was as impressive as I thought it

Temperatures are rising, and not just in the atmosphere. In capitals around the world, the debate ov

'REFORM' HURTSSMALL SHIPPERSThe recent letter from Donald Cameron, who speaks on behalf of t

Given that the Cold War is over, why do the United States and Russia still flirt with nuclear annihi

I've just done a quick turn through the invisible economy, garage sale division. American trading in

Malaysia's prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, has gone out of his way to argue that currency speculat

NORILSK NICKEL DENIESREPORTS OF CLOSING SMELTERMOSCOW - Officials at the Russian nickel and

FAST TRACKa dodge of responsibilitySusan Ariel Aaronson argues in ''The story behind fast tr

President Boris Yeltsin declared last week that the era of cowboy capitalism in Russia must end. He

As the old saying goes, politics makes strange bedfellows. And they don't get any stranger than duri

Senior European and Asian officials meeting near Tokyo's Narita airport Sunday called for fewer non-

In defending the $14 billion foreign-aid program from congressional budget cutters, the Clinton admi

To understand NASA's decision to risk another astronaut in a long and purposeless ride on Russia's r

In the world of business today, the ''continuous improvement'' approach to management is alive and w

In a sign of Poland's changing times, a noisy disco opened earlier this year in the bankrupt Gdansk

Like the gold rush miners of the 19th century, companies the world over are swarming onto the Intern

In retrospect, Filipinos perhaps made a mistake when they approved a constitution limiting the presi