Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's like a Monty Python sketch:''I need a ship to take my stuff overseas.''''Use a U.S.-fla

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

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

VEGETABLE GROWERS NEEDPROTECTION FROM MEXICANSIn her Aug. 5 opinion article (''Florida's tom

Recent exposes about the use of child labor in factories overseas have raised anew the question of w

The World Trade Organization hasn't done too well in the last 18 months brokering new global trade a

The street is the place in which the city impresses its character on those who live in it. The desig

These are trying times for Japan's financial institutions. This week, a top Japanese bank agreed to

In wars on disease, malaria gets only a skirmish. That's because science and geopolitics don't mesh

Mexico's ruling party has held power for nearly sev en decades, outlasting even Communist Party con

Alexander Lebed, Russia's national security chief, appears to have succeeded in brokering a cease-fi