Commentary

The British electorate has done it again. Beating in the May 1 general election even the most extrem

Charter schools may be the most vibrant force in American education today.This is the conclu

With the eyes of the world focused on the crisis in nearby Zaire, rumblings of a similar nature have

President Clinton and 13 U.S. Cabinet members are scheduled to arrive in Mexico City this afternoon

The meaning of a word can be easily altered in the lexicon of U.S. public policy, including the word

REP. LEVIN'S NEW THEORYOF EXPORT PROTECTIONISMRep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., cites a recent stu

The style columns of business journals catering to plutocrats have been fussing about a worrisome ph

EXAGGERATING FEDEX'SLOBBYING PROWESSI am writing to correct errors in an article in your Apr

''Mr. Y'' may be one of Japan's ''sokaiya'' (gangsters), but he talks like a corporate activist.

The fate of America's economy in the 21st century depends in large part on what we do about our publ

By definition, volunteerism is an act of kindness performed out of compassion, done willingly and wi

The partial settlement reached this week by Washington and Brussels over meat inspection standards h

All Americans are health-care patients whose lives and well-being will undoubtedly be affected, for

The just-concluded International Monetary Fund-World Bank spring meeting peaked before it began.

Former President Reagan would be a popular figure in Russia today. His tax-cut philosophy has become

For many years the United States poured billions of dollars into Central America in financial and mi

It's hip to help.This week's ''Presidents' Summit for America's Future'' was a showcase for

Whither the president? Will he bow out, as the constitution requires, or wangle a second term? This

The city of New York is embroiled in an epic struggle over economic regulation. The battle has broad

Technological advances over the last 50 years have changed the way insurance companies work.

For centuries, May Day has been a day to celebrate nature and fertility in humans and animals. The f

DON'T DISPARAGE THESTATE MARITIME ACADEMIESI would like to comment on your April 8 articles

A key assumption of international trade is that countries manufacture products based on their resour

The information technology industry scored back-to-back trade victories in recent months. First, nat

The question ''Who should make America's liability law - courts or legislatures?'' is not academic.

The decade of the 1990s will come to be known as the time when the one remaining superpower on the p

BLUEDON'T FIT THE STEREOTYPEJames E. Challenger's column on blue-collar employment (''Changi

For nearly a decade, Congress dithered over updating Depression-era laws that set up needless barrie

The rapid emergence of China as a potential world power, and expanding American interests in that co

Imagine trying to get government approval to dredge a soybean export canal through a spectacular wet

As they did two months ago in Berlin, finance ministers of the world's seven richest countries made

The so-called Year 2000 problem - widespread meltdown as computers with two-digit data fields can't

AN UNFAIR MEDIA ATTACKON CUSTOMS' WEISERecent segments on the ''CBS Evening News'' and ''60

They laughed 12 years ago - well, I laughed - when a firm of space morticians announced plans for fu

President Clinton's decision to impose economic sanctions on Myanmar, formerly Burma, marks the firs

Next year is the International Year of the Ocean. Yet few in this country have even heard about the

Europe has exposed its myriad national contradictions just as it enters the decisive phase of its po

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment is in trouble, a victim of complacency and politics.

Earlier this month, a U.S. district court declared the Line Item Veto Act to be unconstitutional. Th

Recognizing that financial backing for inefficient state-owned companies is imposing serious burdens