Commentary

Foreign aid is a major target of Washington's budget cutters. Indeed, two goals tend to drive this d

WASHINGTON got its first taste of America's newly aggressive labor movement last week. Thirty railro

AT A TIME when principle is in short supply in Washington, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bill Ro

If there ever has been more anger and fear among American workers than right now, aside from the Dep

SHIPPING BILL WOULD NOT DEREGULATEYour recent editorial, "Shipping and Antitrust," (Nov. 7,

Federal Reserve actions have resulted in a major slowdown in monetary growth since early 1994. Both

POLAND'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION on Sunday, which installed a former communist in office, sent hardly

It is hard to imagine President Clinton and his administration mishandling relations with Asia any m

NAFTA IS HARMFUL FOR US EMPLOYMENTYour Oct. 20 opinion article, "Nafta Hasn't Cost America J

LUCIEN BOUCHARD, the charismatic Quebec separatist who nearly succeeded last month in splitting Queb

Germany is beginning to flex its muscles and that's good for Europe. Finance Minister Theo W

SEN. HOLLINGS: LEAVE ITC ALONESen. Ernest F. Hollings' Nov. 16 letter to the editor shows th

RUSSIA'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS will go ahead next month as planned now that a constitutional chall

SUNDAY'S AGREEMENT to reopen the government produced no clear winner in the face-off between Republi

One key to the tax reform debate now raging in Washington is the issue of fairness. Many opponents o

Attention, presidential candidates. Looking for a campaign issue? Privatizing Social Security is goi

SUNDAY'S ASIA-PACIFIC economic summit - the one President Clinton did not attend - concluded as all

RICH PAY MORE; SHOULD GET MOREI agree with some of your objections to special subsid

SOME poll-conscious lawmakers, anxious to escape blame for the government's shutdown, have demanded

The government shutdown has captured the attention and time of everyone on Capitol Hill - and that c

Through a heady mix of boneheaded negotiating tactics and heartless accounting, Newt Gingrich and Bo

BILL CLINTON and congressional Republicans agree on very little these days. They are united, however

NEWT GINGRICH admits he is only human. So when President Clinton told him to leave by the back door

As a political gimmick, Goals 2000 was genius. As a shield to deflect criticism about the nation's d

Having taken a breather of several years, North American companies across many industries are back i

FOLLOWING THIS YEAR'S Paris and New York fashion trend, the look for the upcoming APEC summit in Osa

STRAIGHT SCOOP ON VLADIVOSTOCKI enjoy your frequent coverage of developments in Russia and t

Congress and the administration are at loggerheads over legislation needed to lift the $4.9 trillion

NIGERIA'S DICTATORS dismissed worldwide pleas for clemency in executing Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of h

The movement to make English the official language of the United States is gathering steam, having b

The time is ripe to lay the groundwork for a trans-Atlantic free trade agreement (Tafta). Such an in

FEDERAL EXPRESS is best known for its overnight deliveries in the United States, but the company is

The Federal Budget Follies are Washington's longest-running situation comedy. The Budget Follies pro

STATE AND LOCAL OFFICIALS like to lure sports teams by promising tax dollars for new stadiums and ro

I'm standing naked on Platform One of Northern Japan's Kamisuwa Japan Rail train station. The photog

MEXICO'S Institutional Revolutionary Party has been in power for more than 66 years, but serious new

MUCH OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is likely to shut down today, and the U.S. Treasury is painfully clos

The principal labor law that governs workers and employers was adopted with two goals. The first was

CHANGE CULTURES FOR SHIP SAFETYI read with great interest Jerry Aspland's "On the Waterfront

The National Labor Relations Board needs to address a pressing problem in U.S. workplaces: how worke