Commentary

Back in the days when the automobile first rolled onto the U.S. landscape, Henry Ford gave car buyer

Sub-Saharan Africa is home to the poorest nations in the world. A population of 600 million has attr

The term ''geopolitics,'' once widely understood, has fallen into misuse as a foreign policy concept

With much fanfare, President Clinton last week unveiled a proposal to keep the Internet a ''tax and

Census fights are as old as the Republic, and aren't likely to disappear any time soon.When

Three years after the launch of Brazil's real stabilization plan, the hyperinflation beast of the pa

India has angered its main trading partners with the stubborn refusal to open its consumer markets t

Once again, the thorny question of gold's role in a modern monetary system has been raised, this tim

''No other (business) organization has moved as quickly to become so influential in U.S. trade polic

THE THREAT TOAMERICA'S FARMLANDIn several recent articles, Dennis T. Avery, director of glob

Mexico's traditionally down-and-dirty politics are getting a face lift.This Sunday, Mexican

The Fourth of July is the year's deadliest holiday travel period.Based on past statistics fo

Just before Canada Day, Ottawa received unwelcome news from a World Trade Organization panel: Canada

Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto commented late last month about ''the temptation to sell o

As part of the fiscal 1998 budget, President Clinton pledged his commitment for a program to expand

For all the furor on global warming, there has been surprisingly little attention given to the role

HOW TO MAKE SHIPPINGMORE COMPETITIVEYour June 25 article, ''Agricultural group backs reform

President Clinton has put his imprimatur on a sweeping expansion of the regulations governing air po

Ever heard of the Market Access Program?You should.It is going to cost you $346 million over

Last week's collision of a trash-carrying spaceship with the Russian space station Mir dented not on

A good way of looking at China and its ''reacquisition'' of Hong Kong is through the eyes of others.

The restoration of Hong Kong to Chinese sovereignty after 156 years of British rule is the occasion

Forget the ''giant sucking sound'' - the southward whoosh of U.S. jobs predicted by former president

Polls indicate that most Americans favor privatizing Social Security, which would allow workers to i

''Germany's future is on the seas!'' declared Kaiser Wilhelm II a century ago as he scanned the hori

One sure way for a business to lose money is by messing up on reassuring the public about the safety

The World Trade Organization's dispute-settlement institutions have proved themselves capable of ''d

The 15 European Union member governments have come to an informal agreement to stop competing with o

Washington's annual debate on extending most-favored-nation trade status to China has become more pr

The United States and Britain, outraging Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp, have put business first and

Barely two hours after labor patriarch Fidel Velazquez died in the morning of June 21, the Gayosso S

Listen closely and you can hear the mewling from a mile away. The looney left, always opposed to the

The United States took a drubbing at last week's U.N. Earth Summit in New York for failing to commit

The British have taken down their union jacks and said their toodle-oos and the Hong Kong Chinese (7

The way I understand the tobacco settlement, it goes something like this: ''We agree to stop marketi

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is one of a half-dozen senators who will be raising a glass this we

Ending a monthlong battle within his administration, President Clinton this week sided with environm

Companies are positioned to enter a new phase of cost cutting, and American workers should not expec

It is always easier to spend other people's money than to give it back, and that's the lesson of the

DON'T SHORT-CHANGETHE IMFThe June 6 opinion article by Bryan Johnson and Brett Schaefer (''E