Commentary

American voters sent Bill Clinton to the White House largely because he promised to create "good job

After basking in the hottest summer in decades, Europe is enjoying yet another unexpected treat: eco

DREDGING NEEDS REALISTIC SOLUTIONYour recent articles discussing the endorsement by environm

As school bells ring across the country, it is an appropriate time to reflect upon the plight of Ame

THE LAST 10 YEARS have been volatile ones for the European Union, lurching as it has from Single Mar

It has become a cliche among political analysts that the old ideological categories don't mean much

Last week's national elections here produced an emphatic victory for Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon,

BY ANY MEASURE, public education in the United States is a big business. It employs 2.5 million teac

There's growing talk that Rep. Sam Gibbons, D-Fla., may not be anointed as expected next year as the

THE SOO LINE RAILROAD, which crisscrosses America's Midwest, is in the 43rd day of an increasingly b

EMBARGOES are only as strong as their weakest link, as Canada's thriving trade with Cuba is proving.

What will Washington turn to once Congress and its staff have recovered from their labors on the cri

China's leader Deng Xiaoping celebrated his 90th birthday this month, even as the "news"that he is c

Mexico's President Carlos Salinas ends his six-year term this year by adding democratic reform to hi

Argentina finds itself uncomfortably in the international spotlight - not for battling hyperinflatio

FISHING FLEETS around the world are busily working toward their own demise. For years, scien

Russian television has been blanketed for months by the happy financial exploits of LyonyaGolubkov,

This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the Bretton Woods conference, where the framework for the

Action by the Federal Reserve System to boost short-term interest rates will make a tight monetary p

It's 4:30 in the morning as I emerge from my tent at a mountain pass just below Okuhotaka, Japan's t

HOUSE REPUBLICANS cried "Pork!" during the crime bill debate, but another brand of bacon _the highwa

American industry is making the painful but necessary transition to a more competitive global market

"The final insult" was how one senior British maritime industry official privately summed up his vie

TRUCKERS FIGHT FUEL TAX EVASIONI am writing in regard to your Aug. 11 article, "US Steps Up

SOUTH AFRICA'S democratically elected government is a welcome change after decades of white dominati

The fate of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which regulates the nation's trucking and railroad i

THE BIG TELECOMMUNICATIONS BILL moving through the Senate would boost competition for industries onc

THE UNITED NATIONS does many things well, but regulating private markets is not one of them.

Every six years Mexico goes through a political upheaval in which a new leader is selected for the n

As Congress gets down to the wire on health care reform, most Americans find themselves dismayed at

Pressure is growing in Congress for withholding repayment of some $450 million owed Canada in a long

MEXICO'S HISTORIC ELECTION this Sunday is shaping up as the cleanest in its history. That hardly mea

Unless the Virgin of Guadalupe intervenes to prevent it, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, presidential

We've been hearing, with an intensifying drumbeat, how Asia-Pacific is tomorrow's market. Well, not

YOU CAN TAKE French-speaking Canadians out of Acadia, but . . . This month, for the first ti

Despite last week's stunning blow to the crime bill, President Clinton is still hammering on Congres

Mexico's 47.5 million registered voters go to the polls on Aug. 21 to elect a president, 96 senators

During last year's Nafta debate, the Clinton administration promised that free trade between Mexico

FOR MANY AMERICANS, Latin America is still an economic backwater plagued by widespread poverty, runa

Lacking the compass of macroeconomic policy, the Japanese economy drifts in a vicious circle of yen