Commentary

Normally, it is domestic producers who lobby Congress for protection from cheaper, higher quality im

Sabers are rattling again along the world's longest undefended border.The United States and

The application by CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. to divide Conrail poses one critical questio

A number of years ago a movie depicted a phony planetary exploration in which the government conspir

As Americans and their French brethren celebrate a common history of freedom this month, it seems fi

Battlements are coming down and Japan is opening up. To business visitors, Japan today does not feel

The NASA stunt celebrating the nation's July 4 weekend was to revisit Mars, set loose a little robot

The news from famine-stricken North Korea becomes stranger by the day.In what it billed as a

For the first time in history, more than 1 million U.S. households filed for personal bankruptcy in

Top Silicon Valley chief executives came to Washington recently to share their vision of their indus

Princess Diana's navy velvet dress, auctioned at Christie's in New York, went to the highest bidder

CLEARING THE AIR ONALTERNATIVE FUELSI am writing in response to Arthur Gottschalk's extraord

The European Union's top antitrust official, Commissioner Karel Van Miert, was right to reject the F

Japan is entering a new phase of economic development - one of economic deregulation and reform.

As he addressed the nation late Sunday night, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo was in the strange p

France is about to discover whether its special relationship with Germany has passed its sell-by dat

This week marks the 65th anniversary of the low of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the Great Dep

Reform of Medicare - a program that gobbles more than 10.5 percent of the federal budget each year -

It's time to put an end to the duplicity that takes place when members of Congress and the administr

Myanmar's reigning generals have pulled out all the stops in their quest to crush the country's stil

Can the Internet do no right? First it was going to cocoon us all in our houses, then it was going t

Most people realize that entrepreneurship entails taking risks, and assume it requires a particular

One of the more commendable tasks the U.S. Department of Agriculture performs is inspecting imported

A RIP IN THEFABRIC OF NAFTAIf a large portion of your reporting staff was fired and replaced

In a recent opinion article, Paul Hudak of Fuji Photo Film USA argues that the current trade dispute

Counting chickens before they hatch can be a risky business. But that hasn't discouraged a lively de

Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo's reforms deserve much of the credit for the conduct of Sunday's

The Surface Transportation Board, created last year as a successor to the Interstate Commerce Commis

As President Clinton prepares to present Congress with his review of the first three years of the No

NOTHING LESS THAN 100 PERCENT'MADE IN USA' WILL DOThere is a simple answer to the question p

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to the poorest nations in the world. A population of 600 million has attr

The landmark merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas passed an important test last week, winning the

With much fanfare, President Clinton last week unveiled a proposal to keep the Internet a ''tax and

The term ''geopolitics,'' once widely understood, has fallen into misuse as a foreign policy concept

Back in the days when the automobile first rolled onto the U.S. landscape, Henry Ford gave car buyer

THE THREAT TOAMERICA'S FARMLANDIn several recent articles, Dennis T. Avery, director of glob

India has angered its main trading partners with the stubborn refusal to open its consumer markets t

Mexico's traditionally down-and-dirty politics are getting a face lift.This Sunday, Mexican

''No other (business) organization has moved as quickly to become so influential in U.S. trade polic

Once again, the thorny question of gold's role in a modern monetary system has been raised, this tim