Commentary

Do small, state-inspected meat processors deserve the same rights to access markets as their federal

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Seldom has that old saw been more applicable than to the current de

What is most striking about the debate now under way on tax cut legislation is that the interests of

The White House and congressional leaders are trying again to extend the benefits of the North Ameri

This week, Rep. Nick Smith, R-Mich., in an attempt to appease a small but vocal group of foreign shi

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The United States has vowed to keep this wisdom

Russia's youthful First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov may have shot himself in the foot when,

Vaclav Klaus finds it hard to say he is sorry. A notoriously arrogant and strong-minded man, the Cze

It was, perhaps, inevitable that the 25th anniversary of the bungled Watergate break-in that doomed

An important reason for the surprisingly vibrant economic activity over the past year is the unexpec

There's one respect, perhaps the only one, in which Russia's President Boris Yeltsin will outweigh h

Chalk up another victory for talented wordsmiths at a political summit.Faced with a dangerou

Recently, The Des Moines Register ran a praiseful column on Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born wheat bree

Although the Clinton administration insists there is no connection between aid to Russia and Boris Y

In a centrally planned system, banking and finance play a decidely minor role. Since the production

Preparations for next week's Earth Summit Two in New York, marking the anniversary of the celebrated

Israel and Jordan have reached another water agreement, putting to rest a lingering controversy aris

The Federal Trade Commission has become the target of unfair criticism for trying to bring its produ

HARBOR FEE REFUNDS ARELARGER THAN YOU THINKExporters seeking refunds of harbor maintenance f

The annual summit season is upon us again. It will culminate this weekend in Denver where the leader

This is the moment of China. The 1980s may have belonged to Japan and the first half of the 1990s to

Faced with worsening lead, carbon monoxide and other air pollutants during the 1960s, the public rig

In a rare instance of global solidarity, nations of the world joined hands last week in Geneva for a

After the ValuJet accident in 1996, the airline industry developed a plan to prevent similar tragedi

Professional life isn't quite what they told us it was at our college commencement. Hard work, persi

Helmut Kohl's dreams could dissolve into a nightmare by tonight.The German chancellor's life

Leaders of eight Muslim nations met in Istanbul over the weekend to launch the ''Developing Eight''

The clock starts running today on a historic deal between CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. to ac

President Clinton's order banning all new U.S. investment in Myanmar, formerly Burma, is working, ac

Without much fanfare, the administration last month made a decision that will save the Treasury at l

There is nothing like getting older to sharpen your focus on certain issues. As I age (I'm 57), I fi

The long-running feud between film giants Eastman Kodak Co. and Fuji Color Film Inc. could come to a

This week two major railroads, Norfolk Southern and CSX, will ask the Surface Transportation Board f

The current U.S. policy toward Germany is troubling.The Clinton administration seems to beli

I have here on my desk the latest in one-to-one Personal Communications Devices with innumerable imp

Poor Francois Mitterrand used to cut a forlorn figure at Group of 7 summits in the late 1980s and ea

The Russian government is on a borrowing binge that could lead to a financial and economic crisis of

The anti-Cuba hard-liners in the U.S. Congress have struck again.Barely two months after the

The Republican tax package, unveiled this week with much fanfare, was billed as a comprehensive, ''c

So tiny Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern wants to be the third railroad serving the coal fields of Wyomin