Commentary

Once again, a monthly employment report produced a week of pronounced volatility for financial marke

Genetically altered corn is at the center of a trans-Atlantic row that may well develop into yet ano

One of the earliest lessons young children are taught is ''never talk to strangers.'' With the adven

WELL-FOUNDED THEORIESVS. STRAW-MAN ARGUMENTSIt is normally churlish to respond to a reviewer

The TWA crash off New York's Long Island earlier this year is causing security repercussions through

The financial news isn't all grim on the science front. True, with Washington pulling back, shrinkag

It's official: Doctors who work for health maintenance organizations have rights of free speech, jus

Governments across Europe are courting civil unrest in trying to dismantle a system of social benefi

We've all been frustrated by hotel clerks who enter reservations incorrectly and salespeople who pan

This used to be the season to be jolly. Now, we're to be socially responsible.A wave of anti

Iraq this week began exporting 600,000 barrels of oil a day under an oil-for-food deal with the Unit

With the election behind him, President Clinton apparently intends to move forward with negotia- t

KOREA REPLIESON LEASES, OPEN SKIESI am writing in regard to your Nov. 27 article entitled ''

It's crowded out there in guru-land.I refer, of course, to that strange blather-world where

In what is decidedly misguided economic advice, Indian Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda has told a bus

The year 1997 rapidly approaches. The computer operating system named Windows 95 is beginning to sou

As Boris Yeltsin seems to be recuperating from his quintuple bypass surgery, questions persist regar

The World Trade Organization meeting this week in Singapore is the scene of some intense discussions

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan got blamed for sending stock markets around the world on a r

This year's 28th annual Gallup Poll of American attitudes toward public schools found that 66 percen

Will the president and congressional leaders have the guts to kill the space station when they hold

WHY IS THE MARITIMESECURITY ACT NEEDED?It was outrageous for Thomas Wyman, director of the B

With election-year politics behind us, it is high time that policy-makers give their undivided atten

The Franco-German alliance is fraying at the edges and that spells trouble for Europe.The tw

Against long odds, the European Commission is trying to get tough on member governments that hand ou

Since the end of the Cold War, Washington has been trying to decide what to do with about 50 tons of

Officials from some 125 nations are converging on Singapore, a nation booming because of trade, to p

The World Trade Organization is slipping into a trap that already has ensnared the United Nations: a

The French government has staged an ignominious retreat from its bold plan to privatize Thompson, th

President Clinton will have a chance next month to tighten the U.S. vise on Cuba and its foreign bus

U.S. aviation negotiators began meeting in London last week to try once again to get their British c

PLUTONIUM: SOMETHINGOLD, SOMETHING NEWI was pleased to see that you published Al Reynolds' N

Few issues have the same soporific power as questions about the accuracy of government statistics.

There is no single recipe for effective leadership. Some leaders are hands-on, involved in all the g

In the 1960s horror comedy ''Dr. Strangelove,'' Gen. Jack D. Ripper is a cigar-chomping paranoid who

The North American Free Trade Agreement is wreaking havoc on the environment even though a side agre

Copyright laws are about to enter the digital age. They will, that is, if the 160 nations now meetin

Privatization of government assets has been gaining popularity worldwide. The Paris-based Organizati

Santa Claus came early to Capitol Hill this year, in the unlikely form of Michael Boskin, a Stanford

Look at European industry. What do you see? Larger companies, mainly, some of them efficient, many m