Commentary

Taiwan on Monday ordered checks on imported U.S. beef for a potentially lethal strain of E. coli bac

The United States took India to the World Trade Organization Monday in a bid to end Delhi's ban on o

Normality is returning to Europe just in time.Helmut Kohl, Germany's longest-serving chancel

Say ''FBI,'' and most people think of crusading agents in conservative suits swooping down on the so

Remember your economic and political history lessons: colonialism; financial capitalism; economic im

Some dangerous ideas are being tossed around in the name of cleaning up our campaign finance system.

The majority of America's work force is facing wage stagnation as companies seek to control costs by

An amazing fad has captured the imagination of preteens, a fad so mindless, so lacking in humane fea

Teamsters drivers who struck the United Parcel Service in August found strong sympathy among average

Although violent crime has decreased in some cities, poverty, homelessness, racism, drug abuse, teen

Ted Turner might as well dump his billion dollars in the Zambezi River for all the good it's going t

Luxembourg, which assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union last summer, has the unenvia

It's a brave government that opens itself to accusations of ''unilateral disarmament'' from politica

Rep. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., may reflect the left wing of the House on trade and labor issues, but la

QUESTIONABLEECONOMICSWhatever your position on ''fast track'' authority in negotiating trade

In light of the well-publicized downsizings of Fortune 500 companies, imagine this headline and acco

The Surface Transportation Board is facing a decision on whether to grant the Southern Motor Carrier

As if Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party didn't have enough problems these days, a st

The Cold War is over and the biggest menace to the United States and the free world - Communism - is

The summer of '97, like many before it, provided ample opportunities for outdoor activities, but in

The Boys of the Sixties reassembled here recently to mark the 30th anniversary of the landmark Kenne

The front page of the Washington Post Sept. 20 was dominated by photographs of Michael Chang and Pet

The so-called fast-track legislation now before Congress would probably get more attention if it did

In the context of U.S. national security, the importance of Latin America has almost faded from memo

European leaders gather in Amsterdam today to sign the Treaty of Amsterdam, another truck stop on th

I have spent the past week trawling through the scripted and unscripted utterances of Prime Minister

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone has a dilemma. It doesn't like foreign suppliers of parts, preferring

Forget that 5 cent cigar. What the world needs are railroaders capable of managing growth. The fello

There are no wars to be fought or dictators to be dared and no communists or Mafia gangsters to be g

THE PROUD HISTORYOF S/S AMERICAN VICTORYYour article of Sept. 10 concerning the James River

The famed agricultural heartland of Argentina known as the pampas was as impressive as I thought it

'REFORM' HURTSSMALL SHIPPERSThe recent letter from Donald Cameron, who speaks on behalf of t

A college campus filled with teen-agers and twentysomethings on a four-year, all-expense-paid holida

Temperatures are rising, and not just in the atmosphere. In capitals around the world, the debate ov

Malaysia's prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, has gone out of his way to argue that currency speculat

I've just done a quick turn through the invisible economy, garage sale division. American trading in

Given that the Cold War is over, why do the United States and Russia still flirt with nuclear annihi

Senior European and Asian officials meeting near Tokyo's Narita airport Sunday called for fewer non-

President Boris Yeltsin declared last week that the era of cowboy capitalism in Russia must end. He

As the old saying goes, politics makes strange bedfellows. And they don't get any stranger than duri