Commentary

The real cost of corporate downsizing does not show up on the bottom line. Indeed, its far-reaching

MORE VIEWS, MOREDEBATE ON JONES ACTYour coverage of the recent hearing before the House Subc

During the 1920s, H.L. Mencken observed that the only part of the Bill of Rights not violated by the

SHIPBUILDERS NEEDGOVERNMENT SUPPORTAs an advocate of the revitalization of the U.S. maritime

If this Congress had a public mandate, it was to lower taxes. That didn't happen, which is sad enoug

Executives in the United States are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with re-engineering, the wide

Freedom to Farm, the legislation signed into law earlier this year, is the most sweeping change in U

Two hundred and twenty years ago, the colonies that were to become the United States of America decl

The European Union is about to launch a probe into airline linkups between the United States and Eur

Last month's soccer hooliganism after England's loss to Germany may have come as a surprise to some,

The next president of the United States will be either an economic illiterate, a shameful political

Russians vote today in the most important election in the history of their young democracy. Boris Ye

The Institute for Policy Innovation and the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution have just released a n

YANG MING TREATEDSTOWAWAYS HUMANELYWe would like to clarify some of the issues raised in All

Many Americans say the Japanese market is closed to foreign trade. Certainly, some segments of the J

Radovan Karadzic, the most-wanted Bosnian Serb, keeps thumbing his nose at the Dayton peace accords,

Some enforcers see it this way: Treat unsafe shipping like prostitution - punish the johns.T

Europe starts and stops, it sputters and staggers - and yet it has continued muddling forward for ne

The nasty debate over U.S. wages and foreign trade that dominated the Republican primary campaign la

In Lyons, France, last weekend, while public displays of affection among the Group of 7 leaders were

As such events go, the summit of the world's seven richest democracies held over the weekend in Lyon

The automobile industry has become truly global. Unfortunately, regulations and testing procedures t

Sometimes it takes a radical idea to turn failure into hope.The state of Wisconsin is demons

With the price of gold back down and prices of most industrial commodities and other inflation measu

The recent upheaval in the Kremlin may be disturbing, but news from another distant land - Ulan Bato

When German Chancellor Helmut Kohl visited China last fall, his agenda clearly was commercial rights

Former Commerce Department Undersecretary Jeffrey Garten had few admirers at the White House during

Eco-labels, those benign reminders of a product's environmental friendliness, are under attack. A ha

Finally, the United States is on the road to prosperity.There can be no doubt. This time it

Less than two years after a feud with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and former Defense Minister Pa

The appointment of two Communists to India's new Cabinet last Friday is unprecedented in the nation'

ValuJet's troubles have been splashed across front pages for weeks now, but the government's handlin

Has the Middle East peace process done anything to help Israel's economy? Time and again, media repo

Imagine that you once tried pot, ducked the draft and faced a string of scandals longer than the Oly

This week's terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia has given Congress another reason for passing a tough s

The last decade has witnessed an explosion in private capital flows to developing countries. In addi

OPENING TELECOMSIN ZIMBABWEI wish to commend you for your June 16 article, ''Cellular firms

Talk isn't merely cheap on the Internet: It's free, much to the dismay of some long-distance phone c

This week's Communist Party Congress in Hanoi is offering little hope for accelerating the slow pace

It's time to bring back economic nationalism - not the grab bag of anti-trade, anti-immigration and