Commentary

On March 1 each year, the president must, by law, certify to the Congress that certain countries are

For the past year - since Jan. 31, 1996 - the Federal Reserve System has pegged overnight interest r

The Clinton research budget for next year has got it all wrong again.It proposes to spend mo

During World War II, Alan Turing broke the encrypted communications of the Nazis. By defeating the G

America Online, the nation's largest Internet service, might want to reread the recent history of th

Bill Clinton never saw a government intervention he didn't like. Faced with a pilots' strike at Amer

The hard-nosed attitude the United States has taken in the global telecom negotiations has paid off.

LABOR BOARD'S RECORD:LOOKS GOOD FROM WITHINThe op-ed article by the Labor Policy Association

Germany just can't shake off the legacy of its defining role in the 20th century as it prepares for

Organized crime is a $1 trillion business and one of the biggest international headaches. It's virtu

Americans should not allow a natural sympathy for children (so well played upon by the Clinton admin

DON'T SELL US MARINERSAND US SHIPYARDS SHORTThe op-ed article entitled ''Running aground on

Congress has succumbed to the ''bad country of the month'' syndrome. Every month, some member of Con

President Clinton's upcoming community service summit is little more than political symbolism.

Once again, the demons that haunt Argentina have come out to play:* Execution, gangland-styl

Modernizing America's banking system has been a kind of Holy Grail for financial reformers - eagerl

It is beyond doubt that the problem of on-the-job sexual harassment takes place and should not be tr

As tense negotiations between American Airlines and its pilots head down to the wire, a third and un

Behind the headline-making economic struggles of many of the big industrialized countries during the

Across America, some 12 million people go to work every day in jobs directly tied to exporting goods

Last year, conservatives led a fight to restructure welfare for the poor from a federal handout prog

Very little reason has infiltrated the saga of the United States vs. Everybody Else - the fight over

DON'T SWALLOW FIDELCASTRO'S COMPANY LINEJust having finished Don Becker's breathless ode to

Saturday marks the official deadline for concluding a global pact that would liberalize the $600 bil

Last week, senior U.S. and Russian officials, led by Vice President Al Gore and Prime Minister Victo

The Customs rules of origin, which legally determine where a product was made, ''are too confusing,

Education is a hot topic in Washington these days, but the focus isn't on learning and knowledge as

MARITIME PROBLEMSMIRROR TAX POLICYVery appropriate that Erich Heinemann's ''Slow-motion sick

How is South Africa to attain a better quality of life for all its citizens, and is there a role in

Blink.There's no other way to describe it. Sea-Land Service and American President Lines sta

In his State of the Union message, President Clinton promised ''the largest anti-drug effort ever.''

Everyone from President Clinton to Britain's prime minister-in-waiting Tony Blair goes on and on and

Since President Nixon's historic trip to China 25 years ago, the United States has had a double stan

Like many public officials who acquire legions of political enemies over the course of a career, L.

George Washington, the legend goes, could not tell a lie. On the eve of President's Day, celebrating

Foreign investment flows have grown dramatically over the last decade, constituting a major force in

AIRBAGS' PROBLEMSGROSSLY INFLATEDEric Peters' Jan. 31 opinion article (''An exploding contro

George Soros, professional speculator, billionaire philanthropist and amateur philosopher, has been

Japan's economy has been spinning its wheels since 1990. The country overcame successive shocks in t

The world's leading airlines have agreed to remove the cap on liability for damages to victims of av