Commentary

When Dr. Edward Lincoln of the Brookings Institution made a passing suggestion in a Foreign Affairs

The young assistant was finishing the brochure, adding some final touches. She liked the look of its

John Glenn's successful return to space last week, 36 years and a career in the U.S. Senate since he

In the U.S. government's unfolding antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., there are many disputed d

Congress's decision to allow more skilled foreign workers into the United States won understandable

Of all the panaceas currently being prescribed for the world's financial woes, increased transparenc

Nobody is throwing stuff yet, but the fight crowd is borderline ugly, which is good.You want

Exactly 173 years ago this week, on Oct. 26, 1825, the Erie Canal opened in upstate New York.

Amid these dicey economic times, let us not succumb to the temptation of protectionism as we did dur

Next month's meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Forum, APEC, was supposed to be a crowning moment

The Brazilian government's announcement of a long-awaited austerity program this week merits two res

''Capitalism has failed.'' That's the spin European socialists and American liberals are attaching t

Serious questions arise following a recent U.S. District Court decision invalidating a portion of th

President Clinton has unfavorably compared the 105th Congress to the ''Do Nothing'' Congress once ch

Sadly, some of America's political and legal institutions have always had a streak of envy. And so i

The European Union this week put into effect a law prohibiting the buying and selling of personal da

Bankruptcy reform is dead. Like so many other proposed reforms, it fell victim to political warring

You might think corporations, with their multi-million-dollar information technology budgets, would

In his superb book ''The Perfect Storm,'' author Sebastian Junger writes about a confluence of weath

Ted Prince's Oct. 15 column, ''Further tales of the drayman'' (Page 7A), was on target in many respe

Since 1981, when Ronald Reagan became president, many Americans have believed that ''Big Government'

Ralph Waldo Emerson once observed that ''a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, ado

I am writing in reference to the article by Bill Mongelluzzo titled ''Custom's ACS system running ou

Increasing numbers of executives are worrying about the inevitable downturn in the economy. Inside l

A critical package was left behind last week when the 105th Congress pulled up the gangplank and s

Environmental groups are up in arms over the decision by the World Trade Organization's appeals cour

The recent saga of Long Term Capital Management showed both industrial and developing country banks

Turkey and Pakistan - both Islamic nations, both Sunni and both friends of the United States - are e

I'm so excited, I can hardly contain myself! Something actually worked - as advertised - right out o

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences acted wisely when it chose the economist and philosopher Amart

In a sign of someone's times, Club Med is turning away from an emphasis on exotic fun and frolic and

Vice President Al Gore, in his environmental zeal, has banned the federal government from scrapping

U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky's trip to Europe last week must be termed a success, i

Call them alliterati. People are charmed by Marilyn Monroe and Cal Coolidge and others with allitera

From his vacation villa, Josip Broz Tito used to gaze across Lake Bled toward the 15th-century churc

Large international financial institutions always challenge conservative sensibilities. But that was

Twenty years ago this month, Congress took what was characterized as the bold and ambitious step of

Ask American workers if they intend to stay with their company for the next several years, and you m

We jellyfish in the media have lacked the courage to hold the so-called ''environmentalists'' to a s

A few days ago, Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov appointed as his legal adviser a man who, un