Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MARITIME GRADUATESARE IN DEMANDDavid Lee's feature on the State University of New York Marit

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

Where do you put your trust? If you're like most Americans, it's probably not with the media, busine

The economic message from the Republican National Convention in San Diego this week was a call for g

The good news is that the world economy is on the cusp of a synchronized economic expansion, the fir

It is convention season and conventional, and often dubious, wisdom is in bloom.Many example

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

Robert Dole's proposed tax cuts have been dubbed warmed-over supply-sideism by his political opponen

Boris Yeltsin rose from the depths of the opinion polls earlier this year to win a new term as Russi

The notorious British disease of the 1970s and early 1980s, labor strife, is making a comeback. Cons

A recent poll by the Public Agenda Foundation found that 80 percent of all Americans believe young p

Let the bells ring, let the people rejoice. For once, economic sanity has prevailed over political p

A West Coast dockworkers' strike was averted last month when management and labor agreed to a genero

Today, some Americans view Southeast Asia through the prism of America's unhappy experience in Vietn

MULTINATIONALSAND LOW-WAGE LABORRegarding your July 29 editorial, ''Hypocrisy and Child Labo

Few pieces of legislation could have as profound an effect on families and local jurisdictions as th

The question of smoking and what to do about it has never had a higher profile - complete with presi

House Democrats refused to bring ethics charges sought by the Congressional Accountability Project a

Seldom has a political party fallen as far or as fast as the Republicans. The Grand Old Party, which

SUGAR FARMERS NEEDPROTECTION FROM IMPORTSDennis Avery's opinion column, ''Limited freedom to

Gdansk shipyard, the cradle of the Polish Solidarity trade union, was declared bankrupt last week, a