Commentary

Umberto Bossi, blustery leader of Italy's Northern League, is at it again. Mr. Bossi, who wants nort

Too many governments have a thing about cows.Regions with strong dairy industries, such as N

White House support for congressional legislation that tightens sanctions on companies investing in

Every lunch hour in Manhattan's finest cigar stores, crowds press against the humidor cases, discuss

Stuart Eizenstat, the Commerce Department's undersecretary for international trade, wants to whet U.

The Dayton agreements that brought peace to Bosnia have triggered growing interest by foreign invest

South Africa is moving ahead with plans to privatize its heavily state-controlled economy, but after

Bob Dole, the oldest man to run for the White House, wants to get the American economy moving - an e

What do women want in a president?Bob Dole packed the Republican National Convention with al

''It's been clear for years, after all, that in the world of huge corporations there's nothing more

Last week Telquest Ventures filed an emergency petition with the Federal Communications commission a

TAIWAN DESERVESWTO MEMBERSHIPI agree with Greg Mastel that the applications of mainland Chin

Ross Perot's peculiar blend of populism and poppycock is back on public view. Mr. Perot, who won the

Can a person live on less than a dollar a day? Can a family of five live on less than $5 a day? The

While the world's media zoomed in on the Atlanta pipe bomb tragedy last month, seven workers died an

It is ''economic insanity!'' That is how Delaine Eastin, California's superintendent of public instr

BOB DOLE:''Working Americans are being squeezed by what we call the 'Clinton crunch' of high

The U.S. government has a problem with U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali. Against the adv

Like the headstrong Saxon kings of old, the governor of the eastern German state of Saxony, Kurt Bie

For years, the United States has tried to change the objectionable policies of Iran, Libya and Cuba.

Politics and economics can make for a volatile brew in the emerging markets. Any investor who ignore

The fallout from the Helms-Burton Cuba law continues. The State Department on Monday took steps to b

Bob Dole's swipe at the World Trade Organization during his acceptance speech was a gratuitous nod t

It seems hardly a day goes by without big news of corporate plans on the energy front, as companies

So it just may be a horse race after all. Bob Dole still trails Bill Clinton in the polls, but he ha

The Palo Alto garage that served as David Packard and Bill Hewlett's workshop in the late 1930s has

The air cargo community is bracing for a Federal Aviation Administration directive that would put in

US-FLAG CARRIERSARE NOT COMPETITIVEOur company has experienced the same problem described in

BOB DOLE:''It would be hard to think of an issue on which Americans have heard so much high-

Two recent events, on opposite sides of the United States, signal the end of federal financing of st

Diamonds are forever, and even the diamond cartel, run for the past 60 years by De Beers of South Af

Railroads in America are enjoying a renaissance. Profits are up, as are stock prices, and billion-do

Not so very long ago, European seafarers enjoyed prosperous, happy lives. Well-paid, working in prot

The infamous Delaney Clause is gone.Congress just dumped Delaney and its unenforceable ''zer

During his unsuccessful 1988 presidential bid, Bob Dole used to tell a story about his uncertainty w

Nobody approves of negative advertising - publicly. But almost every candidate and campaign manager

For years, Section 301 was the weapon U.S. trade negotiators brandished to get their foreign counter

More than 100 countries, including most of the world's industrialized nations, recently called for b

Four former Republican secretaries of state gathered here this week to warn of the imminent breakdow

Bob Dole's tax proposal is an important event in the presidential campaign for two reasons: It revea