Commentary

Confederate and Union soldiers mingled in Marion, Ark., one afternoon several days ago beside an Ark

he U.S. Export-Import Bank last week approved a $490 million package of loan guarantees for the Russ

young doctor has filed a $10 million suit in New York against the Nike running-shoe company. Accordi

It seems hardly a day can go by without a news item on China's campaign for World Trade Organization

It is high time for U.S. policy makers to begin to think about fashioning workable, national policy

There is a message for the West Coast in the recent string of news stories concerning the all-water

movie star, President Clinton and a television network teamed up under the flag of environmentalism

In an article on March 22 (''South Korea to take case to WTO after meetings fail to end EU feud,'' P

oshiro Mori went to work this week at a job that faces pressures from two huge and conflicting issue

The Congressional Budget Office recently published a compendium of 250 specific policy options for t

If there has been one surprising development in the glamour surrounding the e-commerce explosion, it

Today, the public associates America's unprecedented prosperity with e-commerce and high technology.

Bill Gates is at it again.''Innovation will continue to be the No. 1 priority at Microsoft,'

As a small manufacturer in Illinois, I'm often asked why I care about being able to sell my gear mot

Next week the International Intermodal Expo will be held in Atlanta. The event, which comes at an in

here's outrage in France and French-speaking Canada over the decision by Air France to require its p

hree U.S. nuclear power plant manufacturers - ABB Combustion Engineering, General Electric and Westi

Now what? Now that Taiwan has elected Chen Shui-bian of the Democratic Progressive Party as its next

I've been working on ways to speed up my computer. As all computer geeks know, speediness is next to

A few days ago, a news story on the national wire reported that U.S. taxpayers are likely to get stu

The effort of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. and Canadian National Railway Co. to combine has mo

It would appear from reading Ted Prince's opinion of the Jones Act (''Spotlight focuses again on the

o matter how and when the sad tale of Elian Gonzalez concludes, it graphically illustrates two thing

n investment Web site in the Netherlands was flooded with e-mail from would-be investors Saturday af

LOS ANGELES TIMES:. . . For more than five years, Rep. Edward Royce, D-Calif., chairman of t

From his vantage point above Prague's timeless spires, Jaroslav Drobnik takes the long view of the s

mid all the ballyhoo about creating a ''new'' economy for the 21st century, it's easy to gloss over

f nothing else, you have to give the governor and legislature of New York state credit for single-mi

Of all the cynical gimmicks that politicians can generate during an election year, the current propo

Along with protecting the environment, the realization of human rights has become the new global ide

In the 13th century, when Venetian trader Marco Polo returned from a decades-long trip to the Far Ea

It could be regarded as ironic, but last week's Medtranspo Conference in Genoa, hosted by The Journa

One sometimes wonders if China's communist leaders know what they're doing.As Congress prepa

It will take the new president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, at least another month to decide whom he w

Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., an outspoken critic of the United Nations, sat down last week on Capitol H

ooking at the numbers, it's hard to see why shipping lines would care whether they retain immunity f

We have read in your March 13 issue the article ''Vexing problems, common factor: new ships'' (opini

The White House and the business community are pushing for an early vote in Congress on permanent no

If South Korean parliamentary elections were to be held tomorrow instead of April 13, the party of P

t's exactly the kind of thing summed up by the adage about the questionable wisdom of cutting off yo