Commentary

Administration policy-makers are still a few weeks away from deciding the fate of the Overseas Priva

Negotiations to open the world telecommunications market have entered their critical week. The benef

As President Clinton and the 105th Congress hunker down to the business of ending ''the era of Big G

Last year was a year of turning points for U.S. trade with Asia.America's trade deficit with

All hail the fierce scholars of Spell (the Society for the Preservation of English Language and Lite

While Washington has been sitting on its hands, other nations have been seizing the initiative in

Powerful voices are urging the nation to increase economic growth. Equally powerful is the call for

They call him the ''businessman prime minister,'' not just because Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's next lea

President Clinton's $1.7 trillion fiscal year 1998 budget offers a credible basis for a bipartisan c

Sometimes a tax provision looks too good to be true - and it is.Part of President Clinton's

Take a close look at your phone bill the next time you make an international call. Americans, on ave

US SHOULD CONTINUETOUGH STANCE ON CUBAI disagree with Don Becker's evaluation of U.S. policy

With the 105th Congress under way, a small but vocal minority is calling for repeal of the Jones Act

The Farmington Canal sounded like a great investment idea in 1824, a Microsoft or Disney of its time

Beginning in the early 1990s, price stability became an increasingly important goal of the monetary

Political scandals and back-room intrigues are again swirling through Moscow's corridors of power, s

There are few things in life that Jesse Helms and Jesse Jackson can agree on, but one of them is the

It was just a few weeks ago that a day-care teacher noticed a droopy 4-year-old had a ticklish cough

Biotechnology applied to pharmaceuticals has made signal contributions to our medical resources duri

President Clinton told the nation Tuesday that Washington should set standards for the readingabilit

''Child asthma rates up exponentially since 1982.'' ''At least 60,000 premature deaths associated wi

EX-IM BANK IS NOTCORPORATE WELFAREYour editorial ''Propping up exports'' (Page 6A, Feb. 3) m

In a small row house in Washington's Adams-Morgan neighborhood, Hillary Rodham Clinton recently part

Finance ministers around the world have had a tough time persuading voters that fiscal austerity is

On the dubious assumption that a constitutional amendment will somehow produce fiscal rectitude, con

Take a look at the fringes of the rail business. Now think about what's going on in the shipping bus

Is it safe to send your credit card over the Internet to order shoes from Italy? Unfortunately for I

Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., is once again using his Foreign Relations Committee chairmanship to cause

This month the Clinton administration is expected to decide whether to keep the current ban on advan

CHINA, TAIWAN: PEACEIS A LONG WAY OFFTrudy Robin's op-ed piece, ''The 'one China' fantasy''

The classic definition of a New York liberal is a person passionately committed to solving an urgent

Last year's Republican Congress was so power-mad, it seems, that it conferred upon the presidency ex

In the bitter strife between mainstream science and animal-rights advocates, the scientists have mad

Why did the trading arm of the Japanese firm Sumitomo last year lose more than a billion dollars in

This week, opinion leaders from around the world are gathering in Washington to explore microcredit

That rift between Peru and Japan over the hostage crisis in Lima is confounding pundits who have emp

France has been living up to its stereotype of late, confirming foreigners' perception of a country

Rep. Bud Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation Committee, is under investigation by a federa

It took strong pressure from the United States and Europe, but Japan finally may be moving toward re

WISHING FOR LOWER RATESPOSES RISKS FOR SHIPPERSThe opinion article by Allen Wastler, ''Be ca