Commentary

The United States still has a huge auto trade deficit with Japan, but the momentum in the cross-Paci

Lobbyist Ann Eppard, Rep. Bud Shuster's top political aide, seems intent on trying to ''inoculate''

Twenty-five years ago this month China invited a team of U.S. ping pong players to Beijing, thus ina

IN DEFENSEOF ACADEMIC FREEDOMAfter reading Karen E. King's opinion article on the American e

With fanfare, the heads of government of the 15 nations of the European Union met in a reconverted a

Washington seems to have fallen in love with state governments as the solution to all of the nation'

It is quite apparent that we are running out of nicknames for America's sports teams - or the imagin

When Bob Dole opted to retain his Senate leadership post while continuing his quest for the White Ho

Taking another cue from his spiritual master, Adolf Hitler, Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirin

The need for the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger is as clear today as it was eight months ago

A few months ago, companies like America Online claimed that the new Microsoft Network online servic

It's been almost 10 years since the Chernobyl disaster changed the way the world views the nuclear l

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico James R. Jones possesses the trade credentials, business contacts and poli

The global warming debate is heating up again. This year's erratic weather - including April snows i

While political interest has been focused on presidential primaries and on developments in Bosnia an

''It hath been a general complaint that the poor-house . . . hath been of no benefit to this city, f

Montana has been getting some bad press lately, gaining a reputation as a haven for reactionaries an

Benjamin Franklin remarked two centuries ago that the only certainties in life were death and taxes.

It's a simple story. In a hotly contested presidential election, the administration appeases domesti

LIMITED LIABILITYHELPS SMALL FIRMSWilliam McCurdy Jr. has properly identified the need to ad

North Korea ripped up its 1953 armistice agreement with South Korea over the weekend in what is the

Not long ago, they seemed like the sick men of America. They made steel, autos and textiles.

To listen to the political demagogues, one might think that the North American Free Trade Agreement

Good highways and airports are critical to a strong economy, but are they more important than better

WTO MARITIME TALKSARE MISGUIDEDI hasten to correct the World Trade Organization propaganda c

Jack Shienkman, president of Americans for Democratic Action, thinks the main issue in this year's e

''This administration has two problems. First, it is choking the economy with unnecessary regulation

Florida's agricultural department has stopped inspecting trucks entering the state for e-coli contam

A recent extended discussion between a South African official and a visiting American business deleg

Bill Morton hated to fly. One trip stands out in my mind as having particularly unnerved him. It was

''In climate modeling, nearly everybody cheats a little,'' the journal Science reported in the fall

Is eating British beef safe? That's a question no one can answer for certain. Even worse, the questi

These are scary economic times for many Americans. Although inflation and unemployment are low, poll

It was only an accident of fate that the supertanker Sea Empress went aground February in waters wit

A stone's throw from the highway through what used to be Berlin's Drewitz checkpoint, a concrete ped

''We believe in business. We believe in the marketplace. We know that economic growth will be the be

Reports that former Rep. Dan Rostenkowski will plead guilty to felony charges in the corruption case

SHIP TREATYDESERVES SUPPORTYour April 1 editorial, ''Ratify the ship pact,'' (Page 6A) is ri

As I approach the end of my third year at American University in Washington, I'm beginning to wonder

He was a newsman straight from central casting, down to the pencil tucked behind his ear.Alb