Commentary

What was once a top-secret Israeli military technology now allows broadcasters to create stadium and

New Europe is winning the war against Old Europe.Stock markets across Europe are scaling new

The United States is still entangled in Haiti.Forty American soldiers arrived in Port-au-Pri

As someone who was deeply involved in the reauthorization process for the U.S. Export-Import Bank al

Bob Dole had a chance Sunday night to zero-in on Bill Clinton's main weakness - the so-called charac

Judges are very much in the news these days. Politicians and the public increasingly criticize indiv

Alexander Lebed, the ambitious national security adviser to Russia's President Boris Yeltsin, is bec

'UNSATISFYING MANNER'OF REPORTING ON SPEECHESI am writing to take exception to your coverage

The European Union has opened a nasty can of worms by challenging Washington's Cuba policy in the Wo

President Clinton is not the only born-again political centrist. His British soon-to-be counterpart,

''It is easier to die than to live in Russia!''This rather foreboding headline to an article

Mexico is in trouble.Two rebel forces are fighting the government, and the government, in tu

The prevailing wisdom in Washington says you can't cut taxes and balance the budget at the same time

Renato Ruggiero, the World Trade Organization's director-general, last week proposed that industrial

At this stage of a presidential campaign, we always have a torrent of new ideas from the candidates.

FEDEX ACTS LIKEROBBER BARONSIt comes as no surprise that you would blindly editorialize in f

In this presidential election year, it has become fashionable to advocate faster economic growth as

Don't believe everything you read about the demise of the written word. Despite the proliferation of

The first human to light a fire was surely glad to have it. But equally welcome was the implied less

Nicaragua's Sandinistas could conceivably return to power later this month. Honduras, Guatemala and

Some call them ''sweeteners.'' Others prefer ''inducements.'' In a few countries they're even known

''It wasn't in the speech when I left on Tuesday night,'' said Mark Helprin, who wrote most of Bob D

The U.S. Council for International Business (USCIB) believes that modernization of customs practices

NEW USES FORTHE MARSHALL PLANIn his Sept. 20th opinion article, ''Mothballing Cold War Think

LET'S HEAR ITFOR GIMBALLED BUNKSHurray for Tom Baldwin's ideas on ''Making ships user friend

The state of the economy always becomes an election year issue, but misleading government statistics

The International Monetary Fund would, no doubt, approve of Moscow's determination to hold down bu

The United States is the world's largest trader and most of its trade is carried by ship. Yet much o

Shortly after Halloween, the United States will hold a World Series and a presidential election, but

For months now, much of Wall Street has been waiting in vain for the Federal Open Market Committee t

After a year of chest beating about saving America from the ''failed'' welfare system, the politicia

Kids pick up their first cigarette for a variety of reasons. Some do it for kicks, some to see how i

They didn't call it the Massachusetts Miracle for nothing.During the early 1980s, the oldest

The U.S. Congress is about to deliver a stinging blow to the World Bank, the world's biggest aid age

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan bowed to exceptional pressure from the Clinton administratio

In a shameful example of legislative hostage-taking, labor unions are holding up a $19 billion feder

The Senate will adjourn this week without ratifying one of the most important U.S. trade deals of t

'WHITE HOUSE SMEARHAS OUTRUN THE TRUTH'Thank you for the kind and generous profile in your S

The gilded world of big-league philanthropy is witnessing an extraordinary event: the voluntary exti

Before a blinding sun bakes Beysehir lake, Ismail Senol poles his thin, bright-blue fishing boat thr