Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A critical feature of President Clinton's trade policy has been an emphasis on monitoring and enforc

As Europe's statesmen gather in Turin for an Intergovernmental Conference devoted to constitutional

A WORLD TURNEDUPSIDE DOWNSo, the new buzzword is ''upsizing'' in lieu of ''downsizing!'' The

Trade is freer today than it has ever been, but the ships that move most traded goods are built in h

''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

Neatness counts.Fair or not, this is one of life's truisms. And as the ocean container shipp

Last month, Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Horn invited experts of Hungarian background from around

A STORM IS GATHERING in the corridors of Washington. In the eye of it is not the balanced budget or

Western Hemisphere trade ministers met in Cartagena, Colombia, last week to discuss the Free Trade A

BRITAIN, THE CRADLE of parliamentary democracy, suffered another blow Wednesday when the European hu