Commentary

Three times since March 1996 President Clinton has denied Americans the right to sue foreign compani

A little over 20 years ago (Sept. 7, 1977), the Panama Canal Treaties were signed in Washington, tra

At a time the U.S. Treasury is redesigning America's currency to foil the fine art of high-tech coun

First, this basic fact about unilateral trade sanctions: Overwhelmingly, they do not work. Also they

October brings the Nobel prizes, and with these most celebrated awards come real but rarely asked qu

The director general of the World Health Organization, Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima, said recently that larg

China's long history of central leadership struggling to control a far-flung empire has often left s

The European Union's 15 member countries are wrangling over future budgets, a sure sign that interna

Let's assume for the moment that Madeleine Albright somehow gets the Israelis and Palestinians talki

FEINSTEIN'S CUSTOMSCHOICE DISPUTEDThe Pacific Coast Council's endorsement of California Demo

''Our best price is guaranteed. We will not be undersold! For a limited time, get 20 percent off the

As the White House searches for votes in Congress to secure ''fast track'' trade negotiating authori

Japan's collapse in the early 1990s came as a major surprise. A country that had lectured the United

Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto has positioned himself as a champion of political and econ

Absurd jury verdicts in product liability cases once were rare enough to be considered an aberration

Republicans are now debating what to do with the budget surplus that they and others see in the fisc

OCEAN SHIPPING REFORMBRINGS BENEFITS TO ALLMartin Lewin makes a ''lawyerly'' case for why th

The collapse of Baring Brothers bank involved a British rogue trader in Japanese securities in Singa

High employment should not lead us to ignore the growing threat of structural unemployment.C

Last month, Moscow impressed Russia's trading partners by extending a generous trade liberalization

The federal government is happily enjoying the political pleasure of cutting taxes. But on the horiz

In school, September meant writing themes on ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation.'' The congressional e

At the NATO summit meeting in Spain this summer, the momentous decision was made to expand the allia

Most treasuries around the world sell their securities using auctions in which each winning bidder p

This week, President Clinton presents legislation asking Congress for ''fast-track'' authority. Unde

Everyone agrees that ''soft money'' is sleazy and corrupt, that businesses, unions and fat cat contr

Many Wall Street analysts and commentators have their noses pressed hard to their grindstones lookin

CSX and Norfolk Southern, the two giant railroad companies that propose to split up Conrail, love co

Despite predictions of instant competition in local telephone markets, the over-hyped Telecommunicat

US SUPERCOMPUTERSUNDER ATTACKThere is no need to ''reinstate'' Japan's access to the U.S. ve

The United States is no longer generous when it comes to sub-Saharan Africa. It is not offering bill

Recent financial turmoil in Southeast Asia and stock and currency market jitters in Brazil and South

Former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Begum Khaleda Zia is pleading with Washington for higher quotas

Frank N. Wilner, no stranger to these pages, has completed a prodigious effort in his ''Railroad Mer

LEARNING WITHOUT BASICSIS A TOOLBOX WITHOUT TOOLSYou carried an article by Bruce Alberts Sep

Downsizing. Re-engineering. Total quality management. These techniques are all the rage in America's

The administration's two-year push to gain ''fast track'' authority has been neither fast nor on tra

Anyone who has traded Mexican pesos or invested in Mexican stocks and bonds knows how it feels to sw

The night was hot and muggy. The air conditioning in the ballroom of the Mayflower Hotel had lost it

Tell me the sort of state legislature you would like to have, and I can tell you how to get it.<