Commentary

America's foreign trade deficit looks gargantuan. According to 1996 figures released last week, the

The leader of California's successful Civil Rights Initiative is taking the battle to end state-spon

In Germany's industrial Ruhr Valley, 220,000 coal workers formed a 60-mile-long ''human chain'' this

I'm old enough to have used manual typewriters, associated with people who wore green eyeshades and

The Internal Revenue Service has both feet planted firmly in cyberspace.The agency is often

Nearly halfway into his term, James Wolfensohn, World Bank president, last week unveiled a $250 mill

When President Eduardo Frei of Chile comes to Washington this week, one thing that will not be on th

There's an old saying that if the only tool you have is a hammer, then all problems start to look li

America Online is not the only organization that may have more business than it can handle. The Worl

Few could argue with describing today's business climate as ''the age of entrepreneurship.'' While t

When presidential words are at odds with presidential deeds, we are entitled to ask ''what's up?'' A

Gen. Alexander Lebed was in France last week maligning President Yeltsin. Communist leader Gennady Z

A bill to allow software exporters to save about $110 million a year by extending a tax break availa

My home of Washington, D.C., is frequently the object of invidious comparisons with this ancient imp

In the editor's column of Slate magazine, Michael Kinsley has confirmed what Web publishers have lon

You can stop calling Bill Clinton the ''education president.''After blocking the threatened

China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping finally went ''to meet Marx,'' as the Chinese liked to refer

At a time when productivity gains combined with new energy-efficient technologies are increasing the

The unreliability of official statistics is an occupational hazard for economists and policy-makers.

Canadian authors and artists have seldom won wider international acclaim. But even as critics and au

DEFLATING THE TIRADEAGAINST AIR BAG STANDARDSEric Peters may be a veteran reporter but he is

The World Trade Organization has appointed a panel to hear the European Union's complaint against Am

It's there, buried deep in the fine print of the 2,424 pages of President Clinton's federal budget p

As Congress begins grappling with sweeping legislation to deregulate the nation's $208 billion elect

Nicaragua may finally be recovering from the revolutionary turmoil that began in its cotton fields 2

Here's a memo for corporate America: To compete against Japan, do business in Japan. Notwithstanding

During the Brezhnev era in the U.S.S.R., Soviet citizens used to joke about the lack of a work ethic

U.S. consumer groups waded into the proposed British Airways-American Airlines alliance with ademand

Foreign aid plays a small - and diminishing - role in U.S. foreign policy. That's the way it should

In one of his first major speeches since taking office, the new secretary-general of the United Nati

''Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress,'' Mark Twain once began, the

On March 1 each year, the president must, by law, certify to the Congress that certain countries are

The Clinton research budget for next year has got it all wrong again.It proposes to spend mo

America Online, the nation's largest Internet service, might want to reread the recent history of th

Bill Clinton never saw a government intervention he didn't like. Faced with a pilots' strike at Amer

During World War II, Alan Turing broke the encrypted communications of the Nazis. By defeating the G

For the past year - since Jan. 31, 1996 - the Federal Reserve System has pegged overnight interest r

The hard-nosed attitude the United States has taken in the global telecom negotiations has paid off.

LABOR BOARD'S RECORD:LOOKS GOOD FROM WITHINThe op-ed article by the Labor Policy Association

Americans should not allow a natural sympathy for children (so well played upon by the Clinton admin