Commentary

Researchers this week released the largest and most comprehensive study ever undertaken of K-12 math

When asked in the second presidential debate how he plans to handle the U.S. trade deficit with Japa

So strapped is Moscow for money, it appears to be willing to sacrifice the future of its telecommuni

For months, the Todd family stashed its spare dollars in a sailboat fund. I envisioned something abo

Don't believe everything you hear about the courts' get-tough attitude on white-collar crime.

A federal court in Philadelphia this week has been asked to decide whether Conrail, the subject of a

The economy is off to a slow start in the fourth quarter. Both real retail sales and industrial prod

Imagine an airline that uses faulty instruments for takeoffs and landings. In a competitive market,

In the next few weeks, the quadrennial Advisory Council on Social Security will issue its long-await

USING FOREIGN-FLAG SHIPSWON'T COMPROMISE SECURITYIn his Oct. 22 letter, Maritime Administrat

As the weather turns damp and dreary with the cold winds of Manchuria blowing south, the capital cit

In his campaign speech in favor of road safety and against drugs, President Clinton said his adminis

What is it that Pierre Salinger knows about the crash of TWA Flight 800 that others don't?Ac

In the Babelsberg film studio's golden era, Fritz Lang directed the Expressionist classic, ''Metropo

ADVISORY GROUP'SCLOSED-DOOR MEETINGAs a member of the Railroad-Shipper Transportation Adviso

The on-again, off-again talks between China and Taiwan could be on again, if Beijing accepts a sensi

As part of Beijing's campaign to join the World Trade Organization, a senior Chinese official recent

I'm a mass transit guy, dating back to first grade at St. Louis Catholic School in Virginia, a long

Consultation with fellow seniors confirms the experience: The 65th birthday is a signal event for th

The Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom recently presented Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew its Archit

Hundreds of millions of people, many of them children, are starving. Not because the world can no lo

USTR'S TOUGHNESSON CHINA UNDIMINISHED In his Oct. 31 opinion piece, ''Making bad China polic

Nedlloyd, take a bow.Nedlloyd Lines (U.S.A.) Corp., part of the Dutch transport conglomerate

The federal government has been trying for years to figure out what to do with plutonium, one of the

James Thurber complained that you can fool too many of the people too much of the time. But now that

Eight months after collapsing in a heap, the most important trade negotiations of the year have been

More than 80 ships have been offered to the government for use in its new Maritime Security Fleet,

Reversing a decadelong decline, the U.S. Supreme Court is facing double the number of employment law

There seems to be an iron law of Washington policy-making: If you solve a tough policy problem on Mo

We know that almost three out of five Americans (58 percent) think it's their right to take a keepsa

No sooner did the polls close last week than a wave of political detente and cooperation swept throu

Now that the election results are in from the United States, people here are pondering where the rea

In war, it makes little sense to achieve victory or peace if, in the process, you have ''made a dese

The federal government's entire portfolio of non-grant foreign economic aid, including export loans,

The news for America may be considerably worse than what you've heard.Although Monday mornin

It's Britain against the rest of the 15-nation European Union again, this time over an EU court deci

Federico Pena this week joined the long list of Clinton Cabinet officials headed for the exits. As t

Her left hand shakes from early tremors of Parkinson's disease. She's 58 and dreams of sticking her

The U.N.-sponsored World Food Summit, which opened in Rome Wednesday, is a good idea. The world will

Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor's departure from the Clinton administration leaves supporters of fr