Commentary

When the United States imposed its grain embargo on the Soviet Union in 1980, farmers in Canada, Fra

Over the last several years, Vietnam has undertaken an intensive campaign to become ''the next China

Despite continued layoffs, re-engineering and restructuring, corporate America is making significant

President Boris Yeltsin of Russia accomplished a great deal this week. He signed the Founding Act on

Laurent Kabila, the man who was once praised by a fellow Marxist guerrilla for understanding that th

Downsizings, mergers, takeovers, poison pills. With the business news full of public-company turmoil

At a lunch recently with Li Daoyu, China's ambassador to the United States, I made the argument that

China is a Stalinist state, butchers rule in Beijing and the United States has no business trading f

The U.S. Supreme Court is mulling over dealing with pornography on the Internet. The justices may be

The United States should begin a systematic search for alternatives to unilateral trade sanctions as

A major problem facing the global economy - with its increasingly open markets and intense competiti

The chastened leaders of President Jacques Chirac's battered parliamentary majority are pulling out

The United States is making a major move into Africa, calling for an annual meeting with ''reformist

Give Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., credit for tenacity.Several years ago, he tried to convince t

Next week, President Clinton will formally notify Congress he intends to renew for another year Chin

Researchers have been using embryonic cells to clone sheep, cows and other mammals for more than a d

Former CIA Director John Deutch, reportedly President Clinton's likely nominee as his next science a

The issue of American global leadership usually arises in discussions of war, finance or trade. But

SHIPPING INDUSTRY NEEDSA GOOD PR CAMPAIGNDon Becker's notebook in the April 16 issue of the

Much champagne will be spilled this week toasting the Marshall Plan - the $300 billion U.S. effort (

There is a progression in the minds of men. First, the unthinkable becomes thinkable. Then, it becom

In all of nine paragraphs 50 years ago, then-U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall outlined an

The club of developed countries - the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - last y

President Clinton really will feel like the most powerful man on earth today. He will pull off the b

When Rupert Murdoch announced his plans for a new direct broadcast satellite service, cable subscrib

It's Boeing vs. Europe, and you shouldn't bet on Europe.Boeing Co., which hopes to buy ailin

What a sight it must have made, the ''torches of liberty contingent'' at the Easter Parade down New

The European Trade Union Federation estimates the phasing out of the global textile trade restrictio

The maritime industry is facing a major overhaul which will transform its shape and structure over t

To tell America about a major overhaul of its motel chain, Holiday Inn featured a stunning blond tra

Before the Heaven's Gate suicides gripped our attention, the media focused on another variety of hig

IGNORE ANTI-NAFTA RHETORIC:US AUTO INDUSTRY IS FINERhetoric, rhetoric, and rhetoric again. T

It is unlikely that Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born media mogul, has ever sat through nine innin

After a long search, the Clinton administration has discovered a cabal of global economic enemies. T

It's a closely guarded secret, but your supermarket is helping to preserve wild lands all over the w

U.S. national security is under such an ''unusual and extraordinary threat'' that President Clinton

As was amply demonstrated during a recent commercial policy mission through the countries of the Ara

French voters are going to the polls Sunday, in all likelihood to hand the center-right coalition a

At this time, when words mean whatever you want them to mean, when Orwellian logic intrudes on every

India has been pleading poverty for decades, claiming it cannot afford to open its markets to import