Commentary

It's noon in Nanjing and the downtown McDonald's is packed with people - students, shop girls, execu

When Garry Kasparov walked away from his last chess match against the IBM computer in high dudgeon

Investors beware. Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, seems determined to end wha

The effort to bring Spain into accord with the requirements of the Maastricht agreement for a common

If government is neither the problem nor the solution, as President Clinton has suggested, then what

American farmers are wailing about rising imports of Canadian cattle, hogs, beef and pork. They beli

The countdown to a pilot strike at American Airlines two months ago, delayed by government intervent

There has been much hand-wringing over whether environmental initiatives by corporations, either vol

In the course of his visit to Mexico, President Clinton was at pains to reassure Mexicans that the U

In 1994, President Clinton and other regional leaders boldly declared plans for a Free Trade Agreeme

The Philadelphia Stock Exchange has announced it will quote stocks in increments of one-sixteenth of

When Bill Clinton won the 1992 presidential election, Germany's luckless Social Democrats hailed the

In a book published more than 20 years ago, ''Small World Long Gone: A Family Record of an Era,'' Av

Only days old, Asia's first life reinsurer is looking at wider horizons than its Malaysian birthplac

Guatemala, the largest country in Central America, is about to attempt the largest-scale privatizati

Rarely does Congress get the opportunity to resolve two separate public policy problems with one pie

Another of America's kept anti-communist dictators has gone sour - looting, butchering, oppressing h

There's a lot of ways you could describe ocean shipping tariffs: impenetrable, eye-glazing, convolut

The odds are mounting against House Speaker Newt Gingrich's proposal to limit China's trading privil

If we Americans want to end the era of big government, each of us must do more of what we have previ

The World Trade Organization's decision condemning the European Union's ban on the import of hormone

With much fanfare, the Federal Communications Commission last week announced a series of what it c

During the 1990s, each of the former communist bloc countries has seen its economy shrink as it has

In American public life today, sons rarely appear with their mothers. Oddly, one of the few forums i

The balance of payments is one of the least understood areas of the economy and the recent rise of t

Companies break into foreign markets by offering customers better products at better prices - at lea

Britain's Labour Party, which stormed into power May 1, got off to an impressive start, giving the B

Rapid improvements in the information sector offer the potential for a new medium for the delivery o

How would you feel if you spent a lot of time and money organizing a fancy party and then found out

DEFENDING NAFTAIS DEAD WRONGWrong, wrong, and wrong again. That's the best way to characteri

U.S. trade negotiators must be feeling an extreme case of deja vu. Once again, Tokyo is balking at r

The Clinton administration is getting high marks from the computer software industry for its diligen

The United States may be on the verge of a major enhancement of its national security, no thanks to

Last fall Californians surprisingly defeated ballot measures aimed at controlling the methods manage

News reports speculating on links between Muslims and violent disasters have contributed to a hostil

''In the Matter of International Settlement Rates, IB Docket No. 96-261.'' Now, if this title doesn'

At no time in recent memory have the perils and promise of Sino-American relations been cast in such

A recent front page headline in The New York Times screamed out its urgency: ''Enormous Plume of Ant

The recent agreement between President Clinton and Republican leaders to balance the federal budget

Philadelphia's retail magnate John Wannamaker reportedly once expressed the conundrum of advertising