Commentary

To show how serious it is about waging war against illicit drugs, the Clinton administration has lau

The pledge by South Africa's deputy president, Thabo Mbeki, that his country's government will pursu

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

Having abandoned managed trade in autos and auto parts with Japan last year, the United States is cl

Third-party candidate Ross Perot injected much life into the presidential election four years ago by

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan testified before Congress last week about the outlook for th

Science will provide. That's the confident assurance of the optimists in response to worrisome signs

If some members of Congress have their way, there soon may be relatively few countries in the world

Japan's corporate elite, embarrassed by a series of recent misdeeds within its ranks, is polishing i

A chief executive of a major U.S. company was asked recently about past decisions to move some of hi

On a wooded hilltop in northern Italy, not far from Milan, the message appears suddenly, spray-paint

Thousands of railroad workers nationwide could walk off the job next week if labor leaders can't rea

Between July 19 and Aug. 4, nearly 2 million people are expected to attend the Centennial Olympic Ga

When the school district here made an impassioned plea last spring for donations to avoid laying off

Quiz time! What's the most popular trend in American business today? No, it's not Fortune's 500 bigg

Dear Sir:I am writing in response to the July 15 article by James Tien, a well-known Hong Ko

''Famine Drives Thousands of Somalis from Homes,'' The New York Times recently reported, complete wi

The United States and China will establish early next year a high-level panel to promote closer busi

Now that the anonymous author of ''Primary Colors'' has been uncovered, Washington can return to nor

RECALLING IRVING JOHNSONAND THE EAGLE VOYAGEReading Tom Baldwin's piece on the republishing

So now the U.S. government has completely torn the blanket with Colombia, once one of its staunchest

Russia's recent presidential election cleared up at least one issue: Russian voters rejected a retur

Congress once again is poised to vote on a measure designed to punish an oppressive regime - this ti

Despite the growing U.S. trade deficit, Americans are seeing global trade in a more favorable light

The expansion of the European Union to the east is under way. The first group of new members most li

It's Dapo Olorunyomi's bad luck that he's trying to save a country so few care about.Not tha

It's no surprise President Clinton was able to emerge unscathed from the Cuba quandary imposed on hi

More than a century ago in a tale called ''The Young King,'' Oscar Wilde wrote of the moral awakenin

In the five years since declaring its independence from Yugoslavia, Slovenia has shown an unwavering

After weeks of negotiation, longshoremen and employers on the West Coast finally have settled on a n

House Republicans stormed into the 104th Congress trumpeting their plan to reform four decades of De

How does Bill Clinton get into these fixes? Last November, Mr. Clinton was easing restrictions on Cu

The International Olympic Committee, which has presided over the transmutation of the Olympic Games

Seen at night from space, our planet is illuminated by an uninterrupted river of light flowing aroun

Just how old is ''old enough'' in the United States? Sometimes it is hard to tell.Although 1

The Clinton administration once hailed the North American Free Trade Agreement as a great victory fo

Are American closets too crowded to squeeze in a slinky new sarong? Or is it all the worry about job

US WOOL INDUSTRYNEEDS SAFEGUARDSThere has been a great deal written recently about the U.S.-

Where is the job the skilled typesetter is so well-trained to do? What about the bank teller who rem

The media circus over layoffs due to corporate downsizing has subsided. While magazines like the Atl