Commentary

THE MUCH-MALIGNED Postal Service made a $1.8 billion profit in the 1995 fiscal year. It is well on i

CHILE'S PENSION SYSTEM UNTESTEDThere are many things we should recognize and even emulate ab

RACKED BY STRIKES AND DEMONSTRATIONS, France seems to be collapsing in a heap. Bad news? Far from it

The impending retirement of Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., after nearly a quarter-century in the

The Czech Republic, together with other Central and Eastern European countries, has a unique opportu

PAYING TAXES is an unpleasant business. Shuffling through thickly worded forms and undecipherable in

The long, powerful surge in the stock market suggests to many people that the American economy has e

Study and work hard and you'll get ahead. That traditional formula for success still packs the unive

It has been more than a year now since leaders from the Middle East and North Africa gathered in Cas

U.S. NEGOTIATORS scored two impressive victories in trade talks with the European Union last week. A

CHINA AND VIETNAM have agreed to reopen rail border crossings to handle what is shaping up to be a b

The United States faces a growing paradox: A simultaneous rise of isolationism amid the increasing g

HAITIAN PRESIDENT Jean-Bertrand Aristide's decision to leave office next February, as he had origina

What on earth has happened to those nice, compassionate Canadians? In just the past month or so:

Over the last five decades, the alliance between the United States and Europe arguably has been the

BILL CLINTON officially ended the 1973 energy crisis last week. By signing a bill that lifts the 22-

TRANSFORMING the world's trouble spots into prosperous places will always require more than diplomat

Despite early promise, regulatory reform is all but dead in this session of Congress. Senate Majorit

Administration officials are reportedly using a proposed $1 billion aircraft parts financing package

Subcommittees in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives have proposed bills to fix the trouble

Considering the budget impasse between Newt Gingrich, who is inciting a revolution, and Bill Clinton

FRANCE IS EUROPEAN, it seems, as long as Europe is French. The less it is, the more upset the French

SUNDAY'S TRANS-ATLANTIC SUMMIT in Madrid is being billed in Europe as the start of a new era in U.S.

Any lingering doubts of the importance of foreign investment - both inward and outward - to the nati

ALL ABOARD THE GRAVY TRAINIn a recent editorial, "The ICC Reborn," you derided the ICC Termi

CHINA'S GLOSSY NEW PACKAGE of trade reforms, unveiled last week by President Jiang Zemin, has Wester

THE NATIONAL 55-mph speed limit has been a hallmark of federal paternalism. Begun in 1974 to save fu

KEEPING QUEBEC'S FRENCH CULTURE ALIVEMax Schulz's denunciation of "cultural tyranny

With much grumbling from retailers and consumers, Britain moved a step closer in October toward the

On Dec. 1, Mexico's center-right National Action Party (PAN) - long dismissed as the Avis of Mexican

PEACE IN BOSNIA can be enforced, but it will require more than just NATO troops. Western reconstruct

COMPLETING A CIRCLE that began after World War II, the Czech Republic Tuesday became the first commu

Fidel Castro claims Cuba's economy has bottomed out and is now on the path to recovery, growing at a

David E. Bonior of Michigan, the second-ranking Democrat in the House of Representatives, wants to s

Two weeks ago an out-of-town friend stayed at my house because she had to be at the airport early th

Just a few yards from McDonald's and squeezed between shop fronts, the modestentrance to 150

Yes, we do have bananas - at least 10 acres worth - according to Mickey Kantor. The U.S. tra

WANT A REFUND? FILE A LAWSUITIn its recent landmark decision, the U.S. Court of Internationa

REPORTS PUBLISHED in the British tabloids say Prime Minister John Major plans to appoint Princess Di

AMERICANS are growing more protectionist by the day, yet no one in government seems to care. Even wo