Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

After 17 years of trying, federal authorities finally may have caught up with the Unabomber. In the

President Clinton just authorized an election-year tax increase, but don't expect Republicans to kic

Of the many foreign policy challenges the State Department faces today, one of the most serious eman

Fellow Republicans are accusing Rep. Bud Shuster of leading a misinformation campaign as he tries to

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

As South Korean voters prepare this week (April 11) to elect a new National Assembly, it is worth as

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

The financial community is setting itself a challenging new environmental agenda, although it is kee

Ron Brown was doing what he does best when his plane crashed in Bosnia Wednesday: promoting U.S. com

Eyebrows rose earlier this week when Pacific Telesis Group and SBC Communications announced they wou

For the first time in five years, Japan's politically touchy trade surplus with the United States de

A new law enacting what many consider a linguistic mistake has environmentalists fuming and loggers

The United States is on the threshold of a competitive electricity market. Given all we have heard a

Rarely can a meeting of powerful political leaders have been so rudely upstaged as last week's Europ

When Republicans in Congress have a chance to be both pro-market and pro-environment, they should le

Western lawmakers have had it in for the Federal Reserve since the bank's creation in 1913, so the c

Raising the minimum wage is popular politically, especially when corporate salaries are soaring. But

Sen. Edward Kennedy, a long-time advocate of government-paid health care, was in Montreal last month

RAILROADS RESPONDTO MERGER CRITICSThe front-page story on your March 25 edition, ''Justice s

Britain may be down, brought low by the mad cow disease, but it is strong enough to deal with rebell

To overthrow Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin signed the Belovezhye Accord and dissolved the Soviet

U.S. gunboats have left the Taiwan Strait, but a more parlous confrontation between the United State

Earlier this year, Congress passed and President Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996,

Interest rates rose this winter, mostly on the theory that a rebound in the economy will prevent the

A week before reappointing Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve chairman, Bill Clinton released a provo

Russia will elect a new president soon, but the biggest campaign issue so far is not the recreation

Large pay increases for top corporate executives in the United States have stirred stinging criticis

A tiny piece of this city died not long ago. Brentano's Fifth Ave. bookstore, which opened at the be

When the Commerce Department announced last month that the American work force had grown by 700,000

I want to make a few points about the general reasons why we all worked so hard to create the Urugua

ETHANOL SUBSIDIESDON'T ROB ROAD FUNDHighway Users Alliance President William Fay eloquently

''I have seen America spread out from th' Atlantic to th' Pacific, with a branch office iv th' Stand

House Republicans used their control over a bill implementing a global shipbuilding treaty to ensure