Commentary

Bashing the United Nations is smart policy in Washington. So is withholding the U.S. contribution to

U.S. allies around the world are tiring of America's endless Cuba sanctions.At its meeting t

When President Clinton met with 100 business executives last week to honor corporate responsibility,

BUILDING FANCIFULPORT IN BROOKLYNThe emperor has no clothes, and it is time someone told him

There are some 76 million of us in the United States - baby boomers raised on the milk of unlimited

The Clinton administration should be proud of its China policy. As articulated during the past three

President Clinton pledged to renew China's trading rights this week - as expected. U.S. companies si

India has just concluded its 11th national election, an exciting event for the world's largest democ

American business, which creates most U.S. jobs and most of its wealth, is favored to win the scapeg

Is it possible that America has finally come up with a good farm policy after 60 years of surpluses

The Department of Transportation cleared the way Tuesday for another big quasi-merger in the airline

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is preparing to force public spending cuts and a sweeping deregulation

Peace is the key to economic development in the Middle East. Peace is also the product of economic p

NO FREE LUNCHIN SHIPPINGBravo!I'm glad you expressed your balanced, well-thought-out

It is one of today's greatest and most dangerous ironies: Just as the level of economic insecurity g

The first Republican Congress in 42 years promised a budget revolution and the first balanced budget

Here's a question for anyone careless enough to be born without a trust fund. How are things going b

The World Trade Organization has agreed to set up a dispute panel to look into U.S. complaints again

A major new State Department initiative will make environmental concerns co-equal with national secu

The new U.S. ''open skies'' aviation deal with Germany ''will break the French and their arrogant ne

Chinese leaders can blame only themselves for Washington's threatened sanctions for product piracy.

Watching international trade agreements is like watching hand-to-hand combat, except that the pace c

The U.S. Treasury has taken a calculated risk by issuing inflation-indexed bonds that it hopes will

Soon after Ernesto Zedillo's inauguration as Mexico's president in late 1994, his Institutional Revo

The talk around the table was of the latest disputes on the proper place of dogs in society. Ben, th

JOUSTING FORFREIGHT BUSINESSYour May 7 article, ''Dutch railway soon may use foreign tracks'

It seemed like such a good idea at the time. By running his presidential campaign from the floor of

Ten years ago, few would have believed that in a decade's time every country but one in Latin Americ

Boris Yeltsin has rejected his security chief's suggestion that he postpone the June Russian preside

Finance ministers from 26 Western Hemisphere countries will be the guests of Treasury Secretary Robe

With little fanfare, the Clinton administration has approved one of the largest global ''mergers'' i

With so much attention now paid to gasoline prices, a startling development has escaped public notic

In March, the President's Council on Sustainable Development, made up of environmental, government a

''Cross your eyes and they'll stick that way.'' ''Your belly button's where the angels poked you to

After years of losses, the U.S. airline industry is reporting its first profitable first quarter sin

Bob Dole's decision to resign from the Senate was bold - the first truly bold act of his campaign. B

Nobody likes a sore loser, especially when the loser is the pre-eminent economic power on earth.

The presidential election taking place in the Dominican Republic this week promises great change for

Global integration of the economy is at once the source of the world's economic woes and the solutio

Refreshingly, Congress is sounding less like a broken record on China. For the last eight years in l