Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Like the mythic Greek warrior Achilles, who was invincible except for his heel, many companies commi

The discovery of a trove of 87-year-old 6th-grade book reports is being treated as a fun story, a go

Whether the cancer overruns his body first or the insurgents take over the capital, it is clear that

Given the public discussion, it is tempting to think of China's campaign to join the World Trade Org

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

A specialized cadre of trade lawyers is locked in an almost theological debate: whether the governme

''Fast track'' is in trouble.To some extent, this reflects Congress' traditional reluctance

After three years, the tide seems to be shifting in favor of an African trade and investment bill -

Today's summit meeting between President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto is bi

The finance ministers and central bank governors of the Group of 7 leading industrial democracies wi

For more than a decade, U.S. trade officials have preached a simple sermon to China: World trade is

Suddenly the most boring British general election campaign in history is becoming interesting.

Like their counterparts throughout the Americas, Mexico's union leaders have watched their ranks shr

As budget pressures and ''compassion fatigue'' erode support for foreign aid among traditional donor

A commercial on TV the other night showed us a young, middle-class couple in the throes of a modern

Private investment into the emerging economies grew at a record pace last year, reaching about $250

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's policy is proof that when a central bank gradually achieve

A recent editorial in The Journal of Commerce suggests that a preliminary ruling in the World Trade