Commentary

Now that the election fanfare is over and the rhetoric has descended to a level somewhat closer to E

Now that this hideous presidential campaign is finally over, let's do it all over again.Mayb

Some of Europe and America's most senior business figures gather in Chicago today to put their impri

RAIL INDUSTRYFACES REREGULATIONWith all of the structural changes occurring in virtually eve

Leaders of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum will meet in the Philippines next week to tak

So what exactly did the AFL-CIO get for its $35 million assault on Republicans? Or was that $60 mill

The sacking of Benazir Bhutto's Cabinet this week ends three years of what many considered the most

Hong Kong media recently reported that the health of Chinese patriarch Deng Xiaoping was deteriorati

Now that World Series fever has abated, attention is slowly shifting back to this season's sports ph

''If shipowners are the lions of the shipping industry, charterers the wolves and cargo interests th

The persistent knock on Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon has been that he is ''weak.'

The postwar consensus on the government's role in scientific research has broken down. A mixture of

Trade ministers meeting in December at the World Trade Organization conference in Singapore will hav

If ever the stars were aligned just right for a politician to win re-election, they were in formatio

Reflecting the current obsession with expanding global trade, government officials thrive in the lim

What do most Americans identify as the No. 1 ingredient of the ''good life''? Is it a successful car

Mercifully, the 1996 election is over. Voters should have had a chance to make some basic decisions

Last week, the International Monetary Fund suspended payment on a $10 billion loan to Russia because

CLINTON ADMINISTRATIONIS NOT SOFT ON CHINAThe Oct. 31 column by John Maggs (''Making bad Chi

Big changes are brewing for Mexico's coffee sector. Unfortunately it brings bitter news to coffee pr

The global telecommunications web grew tighter this week with news of the impending merger of Britis

In the beginning, before Bill Moyers' televised Bible-study class made the cover of Time, even befor

Doctors attending President Boris Yeltsin's seven-hour heart bypass surgery Tuesday reported afterwa

Few words invoke stronger negative feelings among Americans than ''secession.'' But in Eastern Europ

Advocates of congressional term limits are back on the ballot in 13 states today, this time with a p

The annals of scientific fraud have now been enriched by another episode, this one at the illustriou

The image of the American mom standing at her ironing board with a heaping load of laundry at her fe

Establishing a linkage between international trade and environmental and labor concerns has been und

Two years ago, the suggestion that Spain might join Europe's single-currency zone in 1999 would have

Pheeew! Campaign '96 is over, and not a minute too soon. Bereft of inspiring ideas, this campaign wi

Canada, Mexico and the European Union have complained loudly that the 8-month-old U.S. Helms-Burton

Maybe it was this way when Willie Mays played his last game or Bobby Jones hit his last drive or Tos

Big! Bigger than all of the past regulatory battles over phones, airlines and trucking combined. Big

GOVERNMENT IS DOINGRIGHT BY LAKES PORTSA recent article by Mr. David Juday concerned the imp

The Clinton campaign's Asian contributors aside, the most important scandal permitted by America's l

Election day is tomorrow, and the political analysts and poll trackers have no idea who's going to w

I'm in long-distance correspondence with a vegetarian from Melbourne, Australia, about how to feed t

President Clinton is fortunate few Americans will consider his foreign policy record when they go to

As if the United Nations didn't have enough enemies, it has added to their ranks by committing a gen

Ten million new jobs. The lowest budget deficit in a generation. Inflation under control. Strong eco