Commentary

ore than 1,000 dockworkers converged on Califor- nia State University in Long Beach last month in

Washington is in the midst of celebrating something that was unimaginable only a few short years ago

When he left the White House after being defeated in 1980, Jimmy Carter found himself suddenly at a

With the 1990s winding down and the new millennium looming, a review of this decade is in order. Man

Herbert London's opinion piece on China as a military threat (''China no military threat to US,'' Ma

oliticians of both parties will be tempted to compete with each other in shows of righteous wrath

Hurricanes Georges and Mitch were disasters of biblical proportions. They inflicted tremendous damag

The Asian financial crisis: Just how did so many nations in Southeast Asia get into this mess? How c

''Happiness is multiple pipeline routes. That slogan, plastered on a paperweight on a former U.S. am

I've got a secret, but, if you promise not to tell anyone, I'll share it with you.The folks

Having been soundly and deservedly criticized for the Social Security sham that is the centerpiece o

he Irish Republican Army, under fire for its refusal to disarm, would be smart to begin laying down

American men are allergic to supermarkets, while in Europe women still take most of the responsibili

Since the maxi-devaluation of the Brazilian real in mid-January, the U.S. press has been full of sto

n a sign of how difficult life has become in Russia, Reuters reported that a retired soldier took a

Farmers, this is our opportunity to send a message to Uncle Sam, the Farm Bureau, farm organizations

Britain tried to lead Europe last week but didn't fool anyone.Prime Minister Tony Blair lect

irst it was Europe's farmers in revolt against pro- posals to cut their subsidies. Now it's the tur

Amid a blizzard of favorable economic reports, many 1999 economic forecasts have been revised from h

I was checking a couple of facts for a newspaper story and getting nowhere. I found details about he

Two years ago in the tiny Sudanese village of Akak, an exhausted woman stumbled, bleeding, into the

Even as the media, government leaders and major trade participants around the world trumpet the vict

t's curious to watch the nation's leaders deal with the subject of trade. They dearly love the econo

A few weeks ago, it was Mission Not Impossible but Most Unlikely. Now, it's Mission Well, Could Be.<

After a year of obsessing on trying to remove the president from office, now Congress finally might

s horrifying as the savage butchery of foreign tourists was in Uganda last week, the response of t

It's time to get even with the idiots.And these idiots are the worst sort.They're not your m

Alan Greenspan recently told the Senate Banking Committee of the urgent need to remove barriers that

For the gadget freak who has a copy/fax/scanning machine, digital day planner, battery-powered dog b

Don't let the politicians try to steal credit for the country's current prosperity.They've g

In case you were out at sea and missed hearing about it, the world is coming to an end in nine month

petty-sounding spat over bananas took a nasty if not unexpected turn this week, pushing Europe and

erhaps there's a deep cosmic significance to be attached to an anniversary that passed this week. Pe

Although China will commemorate 50 years of Communist Party rule this year, communism is dead in the

In response to Ambassador Diego Ramiro Guelar's letter (''Ministry provides Argentine health data,''

The state of the Saudi Arabian economy is ringing alarm bells in the West and rightly so.As

The earliest signs of human plant breeding - cereal plants bred to hold onto their seeds instead of

They call it the killer app. For the first IBM PCs with their clunky DOS interface it was the spread

In responding to demands for steel protection, the Clinton administration is missing a historic oppo

wo reports in the news this week should raise eye brows and concern. Both covered so-called sport u