Commentary

President Clinton says ''the era of big government is over.'' Yet during the first three and one-hal

First it was the book series that sent, well, goose bumps up the spines of 8-year-olds. Now it's boo

When Republicans seized control of Congress last year, they promised a revolution. Instead, 1995 was

Jim Landry expressed understandable enthusiasm in these pages the other day at the prospect of an op

SPREADING LIABILITYIN TRUCKING ACCIDENTSWe are writing in response to a news story published

Over the past 50 years, an unquestioned consensus has developed among the educated elite in America

Contrary to a report published July 22 (''Washington report,'' Page 6A), the Clinton administration

The appointment of Anatoly Chubais as chief of staff to President Boris Yeltsin may bode well for re

A decade has passed since a suspected criminal's own genetic code was first used as evidence in a tr

Close your eyes and imagine traveling back in time to a quaint place where retail stores close at 8

''Terrorism sucks,'' proclaims a T-shirt worn in Atlanta, as the shock of Saturday's Centennial Olym

A few years ago, the future of work was a brave new world. Instead of long commutes, office politics

For weeks now, the White House has delayed the formal nomination of Charlene Barshefsky to be U.S. T

From its beginning in the early 1970s, the automated teller machine, or ATM, has grown up to become

You probably haven't noticed, but a motion picture recently opened about an alien invasion of Earth

At last, the International Olympic Committee has come to the rescue of surprise winners at the Atlan

Child labor in the poorest of poor countries has become a target of highly publicized and often quit

Export controls legislation is still alive, though just barely. The House this month cleared the mea

The American people would never countenance sending our troops into battle without the weapons and t

The latest reports on Nike's worldwide production facilities have again focused a spotlight on child

ELIMINATE STATETRADING ENTERPRISESYour July 16 editorial on state trading enterprises (STEs)

The recent terror bombing in Saudi Arabia and the news that imported crude oil for the first time in

Hard science is beginning to overcome raw emotion in the debate over silicone breast implants. A ste

More than six weeks after the election that deprived conservative Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus of a p

The political silly season has given rise to some real foolishness about smoking. Bob Dole's equivoc

In its own way, last July 3 was perhaps as significant as the famous day after. According to the Ame

When all else fails, propose a tax cut.Seeking to inject some life into the floundering pres

One quick look at Indonesia shows us why the world's farmers are excited about the potential of expo

When the U.S. hockey team beat the Soviet Union in the 1960 Winter Olympics, I watched with surprise

U.S. airlines have launched a bitter - and hypocritical - attack on one of their own. Chief executiv

NADER ATTACKSTHE WRONG PROBLEMOnce again, Ralph Nader is attacking Congress for all the wron

''I think that of all the things that have ever been done in my country, this is the stupidest,'' Ji

Canada's national unity debate has focused, quite naturally, on Quebec's relentless campaign to sece

Advertising has discovered the extraterrestrial - and it's not always the prettiest of pictures.

The following memo was found in a trash bin outside Dole for President headquarters in Washington.

The newly enacted Helms-Burton law has received worldwide media attention, mainly for the complaints

America's 4 million-mile road network is history's greatest public works achievement. Capped by the

Some of the most flagrant examples of wasteful government spending are federal and state job-trainin

Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin's assurances the government will continue economic reform

Commentators in the East and the West view the approach of an ''Asian-Pacific century'' with a mix o