Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

Assessments of the North American Free Trade Agreement have focused on the relationship between trad

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

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

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

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

With the aging of the American work force, greater numbers of older job candidates will be competing

The Napoleonic wars provided an epic backdrop for Leo Tolstoy's ''War and Peace.'' The French Revolu

Uncle Sam is designing your next refrigerator, whether you like it or not.The humble refrige

President Clinton's recent trip to Latin America makes this a perfect time to think about the North

Competition brings benefits all around. It is the driving force behind improvement and progress. But

As expected, President Clinton announced Monday that he will renew China's ''most favored nation'' t

Less than three weeks after sweeping to power, Tony Blair has already broken an election pledge.

Most critics of NATO's enlargement initially based their case on Russia's reaction. Moscow would r

President Clinton flies to Europe over the Memorial Day weekend to celebrate the 50th anniversary of

Turkey is well on its way to creating another California, at least agriculturally. It is also creati

In their renewed campaign to abolish the Department of Energy, congressional Republicans have the ri

Brazil refuses to negotiate a hemispheric free-trade agreement with the United States until Presiden

It's not even mid-May yet and already Washington seems to be coming down with a serious case of late

Some 85 percent of Americans claim that they are, at the very least, satisfied with the cars they dr

Low-fare airlines have been a blessing for travelers and a curse for the large carriers that compete

Despite years of disinflation here and around the globe, inflation worrywarts are urging the Federal

Imagine that you own a sports equipment store.Your state sues you, arguing that you sell a d

Last week's meeting of the trade minister from the countries of the Western Hemisphere in Belo Horiz

Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John McCain insists he's not trying to grab trade jurisdiction fr

The future competitiveness of U.S. agriculture may well be decided in a matter of days.At st

For over a decade, business leaders have been working to improve public education. We have convened

The North Korean famine continues to worsen, and the time for organized action is now.The Ko

How would you feel if your company used your 401(k) contributions to directly pay the retirement ben

President Clinton, who has exhorted Americans to ''compete and not retreat'' on free trade, seems he

Next week, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman will announce how much U.S. farmland will be taken out

This is payback time for the Bulgarian police.On the roads leading from central Sofia to the

During the 2 1/2 years since the Miami Summit of the Americas, the hemispheric trade liberalization

Oil tankers and their operation can be dangerous. But they are also critical in the distribution of