Commentary

The Federal Maritime Commission said this week that starting April 14, it will slap $100,000 fines o

South of the Rio Grande River, there's a saying: ''Mexico: So far from God, so close to the United S

The day Massachusetts bans goods from, say, Illinois made by a company doing business in Indonesia i

Some members of Congress and human rights activists are pushing the Clinton administration to impose

In addition to dealing with scandals of its own making, the Clinton administration is busy defusing

BRAZIL'S DEFENSE BUDGETIS THERE FOR ALL TO SEEI read with great interest the opinion article

Is this, finally, the Year of the Americas? After a couple of years of hesitation, is the push for h

Hong Kong has waited on tenterhooks for years fearing the impact of Deng Xiaoping's death on the fut

Everyone knows Mexico has dirty cops, but the latest case of corruption involves an army general and

Try as he may, President Clinton has not been able to twist the public's understanding of his tacky

If you care about open trade and free markets, mark Feb. 20 on your calendar in black. The United St

I never know whether to be amused or frustrated by the self-interested pleadings of America's welfar

Deregulation is at last coming to the nation's $208 billion monopoly electric utility industry. Alon

How important can a country of 14 million people be for the United States? Plenty, if it is Chile, t

Now that the question of ship subsidies is settled - sort of - maybe this year Congress can do somet

The futility of America's unilateral export controls was highlighted yet again this week when Russia

President Clinton's favorite boast these days is that ''the economy has created 11.2 million jobs''

When a top business manager declared recently that ''the European Monetary Union marketing campaign

One of the wondrous sideshows of modern medical research is the war on coffee, apparently driven by

OECD SHIPBUILDING PACTIS UNFAIR TO US INTERESTSYour Jan. 28 editorial criticizing Majority L

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

Almost seven months after the TWA Flight 800 crash, we still don't know whether the 230 people on bo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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