Commentary

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

President Ernesto Zedillo's drive to democratize this country's boss-infested political system has,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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