Commentary

Like astronaut Shannon Lucid, the nation's important health-care issues have been stuck in outer spa

With the 50th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials upon us, and the conflicts in the former Yugoslavi

Guess what?It really was the economy in 1992, when James Carville hung his now-famous sign i

In little more than 18 months, Latin American nations have proved that good economic news can spread

Britain's role within Europe is approaching a critical juncture as the momentum for European monetar

Forty-seven years ago Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the new People's Republic of China, announcing the cou

For all the talk about information technology, how has it affected corporate bottom lines?Th

With the decline of communism, a long list of former nonmarket economies, including Russia, other fo

High on the agenda of the upcoming annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary

What should a U.S. software company do when it finds out that the Chinese government is among the mo

Speaking in Cincinnati recently, President Clinton noted that six out of 10 heroin and cocaine users

Grammatical stickler Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan has complained for years about the phrase ''most f

President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich may soon find themselves saying with the Duke of W

With much fanfare, Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty at the United Nations last

Facing a challenge to national unity at home, Canada is gearing up to fight an imagined threat from

It is understandable that President Boris Yeltsin's doctors have come to praise him, not to bury him

As Germany finally begins to dismantle and reform its corporate welfare system and as Japan prepares

Being an economic powerhouse, or rather the economic powerhouse of the future, doesn't necessarily m

Anew order of international finance is upon us. No longer are billions of dollars flowing from the t

Who's afraid of commodity price swings? Apparent- ly the U.S. Senate, which this week extended an

Among the most topical export control issues is the transfer of jurisdiction over encryption exports

NO PLOT AGAINSTCHAIRMAN ROTHI read with complete disgust your recent article regarding the c

The world's catch of wild fish increased nearly fivefold between 1950 and 1985, but the fishermen ha

Before economic logic got turned upside down, people like me were considered solid citizens.

Despite the doomsday reports, the vast scientific enterprise financed by the federal government is c

The term ''sex appeal'' was coined by a Hollywood columnist back in 1924. ''An actress with sex appe

Millions of dead fish float in a small space. Some people move them, some sort them, others cut off

The IMF's executive board did not cover itself with glory last week when it papered over an extremel

HOLDING AGENTS LIABLEFOR PRINCIPALS' OBLIGATIONI was troubled in reading the ''On The Waterf

W ho would have thought that Azerbaijan, a country most congressmen probably could not find on the

Apromising plan to expand trade in 21st century information technologies has been slowed by 18th-cen

Where Van Woods is today is where a lot more blacks may be by the year 2000: ready to vote for a Rep

Halloween came to Washington early this year, as special-interest groups went trick-or-treating for

Most advocates of large tax cuts, such as those recently proposed by Republican presidential candida

Social Security and its much-needed reform would be one of the victims of presidential politics if R

A tug-of-war has broken out over the future of U.S. policy toward Iran, after 17 years of enmity bet

President Clinton is basking in the warm glow of moderate economic growth and low inflation as the 1

The furor over the U.S. Helms-Burton law refuses to die down.Earlier this year Congress pass

After nearly two years of political wrangling, prospects for reasonable immigration reform in Congre

Many members of Congress are trying to win support this election year by taking a tough stand on imm