Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John McCain deals with adversity better than most. The five-and-a-half years he spent in North Vietn

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

Tempus fugit - time flies - has never been truer than in Canada's odd national election campaign, wh

CONSPIRACY ISN'T BEHINDTHE DEMISE OF US FLEETContrary to Lawrence A. Howard (''Selling Ameri

Zaire disappeared over the weekend. It was discarded into history along with Mobutu Sese Seko, the d

The $60 billion-a-year U.S. consumer electronics market has a hidden ''travel cost'' that's squeezin

An extraordinary amount of attention has been paid in recent years to the idea of ''social capital.'

Psst. . .Want to know a deep, dark Internal Revenue Service secret? The agency can and will forgive

CHINA IS HAVING ITS WAYWITH US GOVERNMENTThe May 14 editorial, ''Bashing Beijing'' (Page 6A)

Relations between Japan and Russia are not back to normal, but there are signs the two are willing t

China's bid to join the World Trade Organization is stalled, hurt by U.S. politics. But there is a p

The recent announcement of Neptune Orient Lines' agreement to acquire American President Lines for $