Commentary

Britain is facing one of the knottiest questions in its long history of dealing with its neighbors:

If bandits staked out a U.S. business district and obstructed customers, there would be hell to pay.

Once again, as has happened almost annually since Iraq lost the Persian Gulf War, we are on the brin

GOLD BUGSDON'T SHINEThe letter published Dec. 8 on Page 6A written by Alfred Peterson in res

The rise in residential telephone rates as an outgrowth of the telecommunications act has caught law

After D-Day in 1944, Winston Churchill said, ''This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of

We should have seen the Asian crisis coming. You do not have to be a financial analyst to know that

CUTS IN PORT ASSESSMENTSLOWER COSTS FOR EVERYONEIn a letter to the editor on Jan. 22 (Page 6

Week two of the Monica Lewinsky vs. President Clinton affair, and already the media feel huge remo

In spite of the best efforts of Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan to maintain consumer price s

In today's debates over tobacco control, it's easy to mistake tactics for goals.Tactics are

As the 15th People's Congress approaches, the Chinese government stands at a crossroads. The directi

Organized labor, which defeated the White House on ''fast-track'' trade authority last year, has bee

War has a way of claiming innocent victims, and the new ''war on drugs'' declared by the Customs S

Last week, Lee Siu-wo decided to stop struggling. The 48-year-old unemployed transport worker leapt

There are two ways to look at President Clinton's State of the Union speech. It was either a blatant

What if you had found yourself living in Weimar Germany in the late 1920s, knowing what Hitler and t

East Asia's rapid credit deterioration over the past six months with previous investment-grade count

Top officials at Japan's most powerful agency are dropping quickly. Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzu

There is growing evidence that Asia's impact on U.S. corporate earnings will be offset by a cyclical

Look who's getting hooked on tobacco.Uncle Sam, after fighting tobacco for years, has sudden

Poor Fidel Castro.He scores a tremendous coup by getting the pope to come to Cuba, only to h

Forget the Asian debt crisis. To understand the truly crippling effects of too much foreign debt, th

As NASA journeys into space in the interest of science, businesses are doing their own exploring in

When the Justice Department urged the Surface Transportation Board in 1996 to ''just say no'' to the

Washington takes pride in being a place where tax increases become ''revenue enhancements,'' where p

For the first time in ages, President Clinton provided a strong counterweight Tuesday night to many

It is ironic that the International Monetary Fund has figured so prominently in the Asian economic c

The unconfirmed reports did not make the front pages or the evening news. But the buzz among the tra

Manhattan leads the country as the most popular destination for international students, with nearly

Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Mass., wants President Clinton to submit the new climate change

Going back to Palestine is like going back to Cuba.If Fidel Castro's successors scrap commun

President Clinton has rightly emphasized open trade as key to U.S. economic prosperity.Yet,

Despite the booming economy and national mood of optimism, U.S. savings rates are abysmal. In fact,

The good news for Indonesia, says local mystic Permadi Satrio Wiwoho, is that after the turn of the

There are many things wrong with the World Trade Organization basic telecommunications agreement fin

On one of the millions of Web sites out there in cyberspace is a cartoon of a woman stuffed into a g

Few anecdotes about the low level of American basic education would surprise us. But the revelation

The fate of the European Union's planned single currency hinges on a straight answer to a simple que

As the financial crisis continues destabilizing East Asia, Japanese politicians warn that elements o