Commentary

Ask a Canadian what happened on Nov. 25, 1976, and chances are you'll draw a blank stare. On

THE TIDAL WAVE of crime and corruption in Russia has claimed another victim. Top banker Mikhail Zhur

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES have been the mainstay of foreign shipbuilders for decades. That has been a goo

To help clean up the air over America's metropolitan areas, should we quit expanding highways? That'

Once again, America is focused on the sorry state of its race relations. There has been endless comm

TURKEY, long known as the sick man of Europe, has been doing little lately to heal itself. A

What to do about Cuba? It is a question that has bedeviled seven presidents, innumerable experts in

I recently had my bicycle fixed in Tokyo. After finding a shop that could do the work, I brought it

COMPELLING ISSUES FOR BANKS, THRIFTSIn his Oct. 4 article, "The Disappearing Thrift Industry

GERMANY is gradually opening once-closed monopolies to foreign competition. In the case of its telep

JAPANESE OFFICIALS clearly were irked this week by the newest report of how the CIA spied on Tokyo's

A striking aspect of the new global economy has been the exclusion of Sub- Saharan Africa. While Eas

It doesn't rank alongside the fall of the Berlin Wall, but last Sunday Finns celebrated the first an

HIGHWAY USERS PAY THEIR OWN WAYThe seemingly endless debate over who really pays for using t

HISTORY RUNS STRONG in the maritime industry. Nearly every major metropolitan area on the East Coast

LYKES BROTHERS, one of the nation's oldest shipping lines, has been walking afinancial tight

When I was a college student during the 1960s, Keynesian economists boasted of their ability to micr

THE HEYDAY of the British Empire is long past, but some of its better traditions endure. Consider th

Government is supposed to be a matter of laws, not men, but you can't excludefrom the equati

Shortly after Mexico became embroiled in the peso crisis, India's finance minister, Manmohan Singh,

POWERFUL COMPUTERS can be assembled today almost as easily as a child assembles Tinker Toys. That's

THE SPRATLYS, a cluster of islands and reefs in the South China Sea, have long loomed as a potential

On Oct. 30, the citizens of Quebec will vote in a referendum to decide whether to remain as a part o

How long can the United States continue to provide global political leadership when it fails to pay

DON'T LISTEN TO THE PIG FARMERSFollow the money. That simple Watergate-era admonitio

The long national obsession is largely over. Civil suits will be fought, defense lawyers may

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE has triumphed over the centrally planned economy, right? That's the message that

Long considered among the more erudite of American politicians, presidential candidate Adlai Stevens

As we approach the new millennium, doomsayers predict disaster and devastation. But there is another

THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION has been criticized by Pat Buchanan as the forerunner of a global gover

It's a quarter to six on a crisp autumn morning, the sun is still pale brass and "Stardust," as swee

Just as the nomadic Somalis have 45 names for the camel because of its central role in their lives,

AUSTRALIA SENT A STERN WARNING to South Korea and Japan this week, one both countries would do well

Politicians are always on the prowl for opportunities to offer the voters a free lunch - programs th

AMERICA'S TRANSPORTATION NETWORK has always been vulnerable to terrorist attack - only until this we

MEXICAN PRESIDENT Ernesto Zedillo arrives in Washington this week on a tide of good wishes. American

It was only a few years ago that Vladimir Shirochenkov was a mechanic on a Soviet ship, stuck in mid

August 1995 witnessed a sea change in global currency markets. The U.S.dollar, which had bee

PRESIDENT CLINTON, like most politicians, has a habit of straddling sensitive issues, and his new Cu

With the Republican landslide last year, the American foreign aid bureaucracy has become the target