Commentary

It's almost the best of all possible worlds. The nation's first-quarter economic growth is close to

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Seldom has that old saw been more applicable than to the current de

Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski, defying his own former communist allies, has signed a law re

As a pediatrician, I've never had a parent complain that the air was too clean for their child to br

This week, Rep. Nick Smith, R-Mich., in an attempt to appease a small but vocal group of foreign shi

Chalk up another victory for talented wordsmiths at a political summit.Faced with a dangerou

The more things change, the more they stay the same. The United States has vowed to keep this wisdom

Vaclav Klaus finds it hard to say he is sorry. A notoriously arrogant and strong-minded man, the Cze

An important reason for the surprisingly vibrant economic activity over the past year is the unexpec

It was, perhaps, inevitable that the 25th anniversary of the bungled Watergate break-in that doomed

Russia's youthful First Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov may have shot himself in the foot when,

There's one respect, perhaps the only one, in which Russia's President Boris Yeltsin will outweigh h

Although the Clinton administration insists there is no connection between aid to Russia and Boris Y

In a centrally planned system, banking and finance play a decidely minor role. Since the production

Recently, The Des Moines Register ran a praiseful column on Norman Borlaug, the Iowa-born wheat bree

The annual summit season is upon us again. It will culminate this weekend in Denver where the leader

Preparations for next week's Earth Summit Two in New York, marking the anniversary of the celebrated

HARBOR FEE REFUNDS ARELARGER THAN YOU THINKExporters seeking refunds of harbor maintenance f

Israel and Jordan have reached another water agreement, putting to rest a lingering controversy aris

The Federal Trade Commission has become the target of unfair criticism for trying to bring its produ

Helmut Kohl's dreams could dissolve into a nightmare by tonight.The German chancellor's life

After the ValuJet accident in 1996, the airline industry developed a plan to prevent similar tragedi

Faced with worsening lead, carbon monoxide and other air pollutants during the 1960s, the public rig

This is the moment of China. The 1980s may have belonged to Japan and the first half of the 1990s to

Professional life isn't quite what they told us it was at our college commencement. Hard work, persi

In a rare instance of global solidarity, nations of the world joined hands last week in Geneva for a

The clock starts running today on a historic deal between CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. to ac

Leaders of eight Muslim nations met in Istanbul over the weekend to launch the ''Developing Eight''

There is nothing like getting older to sharpen your focus on certain issues. As I age (I'm 57), I fi

I have here on my desk the latest in one-to-one Personal Communications Devices with innumerable imp

President Clinton's order banning all new U.S. investment in Myanmar, formerly Burma, is working, ac

Poor Francois Mitterrand used to cut a forlorn figure at Group of 7 summits in the late 1980s and ea

The long-running feud between film giants Eastman Kodak Co. and Fuji Color Film Inc. could come to a

This week two major railroads, Norfolk Southern and CSX, will ask the Surface Transportation Board f

The current U.S. policy toward Germany is troubling.The Clinton administration seems to beli

Without much fanfare, the administration last month made a decision that will save the Treasury at l

The ''Insurance on the Internet'' column that appeared Thursday, June 5, on Page 8A, should have sta

The Russian government is on a borrowing binge that could lead to a financial and economic crisis of

Recent U.S. court rulings interpreting the Warsaw Convention on airline liability are good examples

''I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it s