Commentary

Acting in the name of consumer protection, the Federal Trade Commission has blocked the merger of tw

Like other places in this land, Washington is aflower, dazzling in its array of floral hues and form

The deadline for European Monetary Union set by the Maastricht Treaty is approaching. It begins on J

While global warming may not be real, that hasn't slowed the Clinton administration's zeal to sign a

AUSTRIA'S RIGHT-WING PARTYTARGETS AN INSIDERS' SYSTEMIn his March 25 opinion article, ''Aust

Going to court is a fine way to resolve disputes, provided you think you're going to get an answer.

Japan's accident-prone nuclear power program has sustained another embarrassing setback. Officials a

Believe it or not, you have a friend at the Internal Revenue Service. Lots of them, in fact. They wo

Haiti had an election last weekend, but there is no joy on the Caribbean island that was ''liberated

A variety of economic data point to the inescapable conclusion that the U.S. economy is expanding at

The debate over ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention - one of this century's most importa

Like an out-of-shape couch potato promising to exercise eventually, the Clinton administration needs

President Clinton and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien met on Tuesday to celebrate a relationsh

European Economic and Monetary Union is clearly one of the most important political and economic pos

T.S. Eliot said that April is the cruelest month. It certainly will be cruel to a long-awaited propo

In a major policy speech following his re-election last fall, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto of Ja

Trade protectionism, it seems, knows no rational boundaries. Millions of Americans - some estimate 9

In less than three months this city will be linked forever with the birth or the death of the new Eu

With Congress dithering endlessly over proposals to modernize the U.S. banking system, the job has

Since India began its economic reform program in 1991, foreign investors have been waiting for the c

At the beginning of the 19th century, Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that the ''power to tax invo

This is a now-it-can-be-told story about a power struggle inside the Federal Reserve System, a power

Damnation of government as a squanderer of the nation's wealth is so densely woven into political di

Israel's efforts to establish itself as the business capital of the Middle East have been dealt a se

U.S. trade officials and free-trade boosters have been wringing their hands lately over a big Canadi

The Environmental Protection Agency made an odd admission last week. Due to a ''data glitch,'' it sa

Although the overall benefits of airline deregulation are well-documented, a recent General Accounti

Is Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko a buffoon or a new Stalin?It's hard to tell of a

The Brazilian government, taking advantage of the Easter lull, sprung on its Mercosur partners the l

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, already the country's longest-serving post-World War II leader, has a

Fantasizing about breakthrough ideas that will make you the next megabucks Bill Gates? Forget about

South Korea's bulging current-account deficit, a negative ''foreign exchange liquidity index'' and d

In August of 1996, the Food and Drug Administration finalized new regulations curtailing tobacco adv

Congress has found an answer at last to the 800-year-old conflict in Ireland.Golf videos.And

What does your employer know about you? Thanks to technology, just about anything it wants. There is

Vice President Al Gore went to Beijing last week to assure China's communist leaders that no matter

South Korea, recently admitted to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has tak

With retail competition in the electric utility industry a looming reality, one thorny issue that mu

Last month, executives at the Liggett Group, maker of Chesterfield and other brands of cigarettes, a

Earlier this week the European Union took a small, but potentially significant, step toward deregula