Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night will keep mail carriers from their appointed rounds, says t

Pity the poor chief executive officer at a transportation company.Rate wars, bankruptcies, t

Four years ago, Bill Clinton won 43 percent of the vote and mistakenly claimed a mandate. On Tuesday

John Sweeney, the president of the AFL-CIO, has been boasting that organized labor will bring an end

Statistics, the science used nowadays to prove just about everything, is being tested in Europe. Tha

If this is the hottest Senate race in the country, it'll be a chilling day for politics when the nex

The Lippo Group is not the only foreign entity to contribute to this year's political process, but t

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

An accident aboard a nuclear-powered warship in the Baltic raises new worries about the security of

Fortress Mercosur is under attack, and rightly so. In a report prepared but not released by the Worl

In a rash attempt to reverse four years of bad China policy overnight, the Clinton administration is

As every environmentalist knows, plans for a potentially disastrous gold mine near Yellowstone Park

ANOTHER VIEW OFAUSTRIA'S ELECTIONSI would like to comment on your Oct. 16 editorial, ''Austr

Halloween seems as good a time as any to consider the monsters our health-care system has created. T

Except for Margaret Thatcher's Britain, Europe never found much good in Ronald Reagan and the polici

Who's been putting the ''suffer'' in suffrage? The 1996 presidential campaign has been one of the mo

One year ago today Canada came close to splitting apart as Quebec secessionists almost won a referen

The European Union said recently it will complain to the World Trade Organization about the way Japa

In early December - after the election, but before the 105th Congress convenes - the Advisory Commit

A commission headed by Vice President Al Gore wants the government to assume primary measures. But t