Commentary

In a recent meeting in Saarbrucken, Germany, that country's new finance minister, Oskar Lafontaine,

One of the most important, and trickiest, rail issues that the Surface Transportation Board is expec

After being at the margins of world diplomacy for most of the year, Japan is finally moving to the c

When Gen. Sir John Cowley was a small boy, his Uncle Charlie came down to his prep school and took h

The Farm Credit Administration is moving rapidly to implement its revolutionary new philosophy to pr

If you read the papers, it really seems like this is a great time for the personal computer industry

The U.N. climate conference that opened in Buenos Aires this week is serving up fresh reminders of t

I read with some interest the op-ed article in your Oct. 30 edition by Patrick Chisholm (''Abolish t

Minnesota's newly elected governor, a former pro fessional wrestler known as Jesse ''The Body'' Ven

MOSCOW - There hasn't been a major Russian air crash for some time now. In one sense, this is a good

President Clinton seems to enjoy his global reputation as a humanitarian. Indeed, his intentions are

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel once wrote, ''What experience and history teach is this - that people

One of the justifications Anatoly Chubais, the most durable of Russia's economic reformers, gives fo

The information revolution is arriving in Latin America - but it's slow, uneven, and expensive.<

President Clinton, at the White House conference on women and retirement, delivered two messages: wo

The commissioner shortage at the Surface Transportation Board is reaching a critical stage.T

The irresistible force of American passenger-vehicle preferences is headed for the immovable object

You're sitting behind your desk trying to get some information on Middlesex County in Connecticut vi

Mention the CIA at any respectable gathering of radicals 25 years ago and, after a surreptitious loo

As the Asian economic crisis spreads around the world, a predictable increase in imports has begun.

Poor antitrust lawyers. Once they were at the top of the heap. They could keep children up late tell

We've been through the Industrial Age and the Corporate Age. Now get ready for the Entrepreneurial A

October featured two events of interest to space-travel enthusiasts.The first, John Glenn's

Butcher shops and banks may both sell tainted products. That is why both are subject to public inspe

For the past several years, Egypt has been conducting a quiet and remarkably successful revolution i

Europe's two rookie leaders have the power to steer the region toward a dynamic future or turn it ba

Ever since Neville Chamberlain's famously wrong remark prior to World War II, political and business

When Dr. Edward Lincoln of the Brookings Institution made a passing suggestion in a Foreign Affairs

The young assistant was finishing the brochure, adding some final touches. She liked the look of its

John Glenn's successful return to space last week, 36 years and a career in the U.S. Senate since he

In the U.S. government's unfolding antitrust case against Microsoft Corp., there are many disputed d

Congress's decision to allow more skilled foreign workers into the United States won understandable

Nobody is throwing stuff yet, but the fight crowd is borderline ugly, which is good.You want

Of all the panaceas currently being prescribed for the world's financial woes, increased transparenc

American importers just got a bucket of ice-cold wa ter thrown in their collective face. If they had

The Brazilian government's announcement of a long-awaited austerity program this week merits two res

Next month's meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Forum, APEC, was supposed to be a crowning moment

Serious questions arise following a recent U.S. District Court decision invalidating a portion of th

''Capitalism has failed.'' That's the spin European socialists and American liberals are attaching t

Exactly 173 years ago this week, on Oct. 26, 1825, the Erie Canal opened in upstate New York.