Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE UNITED NATIONS, which has promised to move beyond the tired North-South debates of the past, has

MANY HARBOR BOTTOMS at U.S. ports are contaminated by toxic chemicals, which makes the safe disposal

With the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund beginning next week,

PROCUREMENT ISN'T FAA'S REAL PROBLEMI agree with most of your observations in "Bring

Saturn was a grand experiment, a major innovation in automaking. But did GM executives really think

WHEN SEN. BILL ROTH succeeded Bob Packwood as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he had a clo

GENERIC DRUG MAKERS WANT BIG WINDFALLYour article on legislative efforts to undermin

The advent of cross-border alliances is the most important change in the aviation industry in recent

The Reagan administration, in its sunset years, had words for it. "Criminal," said Secretary

THE FIRST PRIVATELY FINANCED HIGHWAY in the United States this century opened for business Saturday

SUSPECTED CRIMINALS in Russia may have found an innovative way to stay out of jail: Run for Parliame

CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS are taking a bold stand on a difficult issue that offers nothing but painf

Following recent trends, the Supreme Court's labor docket in the just-opened session is light. As th

Echoes from the great savings and loan debacle of the 1980s still reverberate through the U.S. finan

Cotton is king again in Congress. Not since Sunny Jim Eastland of Mississippi and other long

THE LOWLY BANANA is getting some high-level attention in Washington. Last week U.S. Trade Representa

WASHINGTON may soon start to ease controls on exports of high-powered computers, a move that is long

The World Bank's campaign for continued U.S. funding apparently has paid off. The U.S. Senate has ju

The Western democracies may have "won" the ideological struggle with aggressive communism that domin

A CLOSER LOOK AT THE JONES ACTI read with great interest your Sept. 12 article, "Hog

DON'T WEAKEN NAFTA DISPUTE SETTLEMENTI wish to respond to the Sept. 8 opinion article, "Fix

U.S. trade officials insist that their South Korean counterparts remained convinced up to the deadli