Commentary

Deregulation is at last coming to the nation's $208 billion monopoly electric utility industry. Alon

When a top business manager declared recently that ''the European Monetary Union marketing campaign

President Clinton's favorite boast these days is that ''the economy has created 11.2 million jobs''

One of the wondrous sideshows of modern medical research is the war on coffee, apparently driven by

Now that the question of ship subsidies is settled - sort of - maybe this year Congress can do somet

How important can a country of 14 million people be for the United States? Plenty, if it is Chile, t

The futility of America's unilateral export controls was highlighted yet again this week when Russia

OECD SHIPBUILDING PACTIS UNFAIR TO US INTERESTSYour Jan. 28 editorial criticizing Majority L

In Germany's industrial Ruhr Valley, 220,000 coal workers formed a 60-mile-long ''human chain'' this

When President Eduardo Frei of Chile comes to Washington this week, one thing that will not be on th

Almost seven months after the TWA Flight 800 crash, we still don't know whether the 230 people on bo

The leader of California's successful Civil Rights Initiative is taking the battle to end state-spon

America's foreign trade deficit looks gargantuan. According to 1996 figures released last week, the

The Internal Revenue Service has both feet planted firmly in cyberspace.The agency is often

Nearly halfway into his term, James Wolfensohn, World Bank president, last week unveiled a $250 mill

I'm old enough to have used manual typewriters, associated with people who wore green eyeshades and

Few could argue with describing today's business climate as ''the age of entrepreneurship.'' While t

There's an old saying that if the only tool you have is a hammer, then all problems start to look li

In the editor's column of Slate magazine, Michael Kinsley has confirmed what Web publishers have lon

Gen. Alexander Lebed was in France last week maligning President Yeltsin. Communist leader Gennady Z

A bill to allow software exporters to save about $110 million a year by extending a tax break availa

America Online is not the only organization that may have more business than it can handle. The Worl

My home of Washington, D.C., is frequently the object of invidious comparisons with this ancient imp

When presidential words are at odds with presidential deeds, we are entitled to ask ''what's up?'' A

At a time when productivity gains combined with new energy-efficient technologies are increasing the

The unreliability of official statistics is an occupational hazard for economists and policy-makers.

You can stop calling Bill Clinton the ''education president.''After blocking the threatened

China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping finally went ''to meet Marx,'' as the Chinese liked to refer

DEFLATING THE TIRADEAGAINST AIR BAG STANDARDSEric Peters may be a veteran reporter but he is

Canadian authors and artists have seldom won wider international acclaim. But even as critics and au

The World Trade Organization has appointed a panel to hear the European Union's complaint against Am

It's there, buried deep in the fine print of the 2,424 pages of President Clinton's federal budget p

Nicaragua may finally be recovering from the revolutionary turmoil that began in its cotton fields 2

During the Brezhnev era in the U.S.S.R., Soviet citizens used to joke about the lack of a work ethic

In one of his first major speeches since taking office, the new secretary-general of the United Nati

U.S. consumer groups waded into the proposed British Airways-American Airlines alliance with ademand

Foreign aid plays a small - and diminishing - role in U.S. foreign policy. That's the way it should

Here's a memo for corporate America: To compete against Japan, do business in Japan. Notwithstanding

''Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress,'' Mark Twain once began, the

As Congress begins grappling with sweeping legislation to deregulate the nation's $208 billion elect