Commentary

Women the world over share a surprising unity of opinion about their most important life challenges

Well, I have to admit that I had long thought this millennium-bug thing was a bit overblown, but now

Its back against the wall, Japan at last stands ready to adopt a plan to rescue its floundering bank

Contrary to popular opinion in America, the repression at Tiananmen Square was not the death knell t

The drayage, or local trucking, company, is a critical link in the intermodal service chain. When co

''Real, inflation-adjusted earnings . . . were 3.1 percent lower last year than in 1989 for workers

The latest political fight in domestic space politics is about a trivial issue: failure of the bankr

The European Union's path to a single market has always been bumpy, and nowhere more so than in pull

Back in the 1980s, labor relations at Northwest Airlines Corp. were so shabby that observers took to

The South Korean economy is caught in a vicious downward spiral of declining spending and collapsing

The trend toward small and home offices is growing into a significant market and Pitney Bowes has de

More debate on anti-dumping laws has been set off by the U.S. steel industry's recent announcement t

Now that Fernando Henrique Cardoso has won re-election for a second term as president of Brazil, eve

''It is the kind of problem that could erupt, and the world, having paid no attention, suddenly says

Various farm and commodity organizations claim that fair-trade farm groups are actually against trad

If you think American policy-making tends to be adversarial, over-lawyered and dominated by vocifero

Economic analysis in the past two years has consistently underestimated the speed and depth of the g

In our modern era, science has been enlisted in an effort to explain everything.Recently, at

The orders arrived by telex, and crews on more than a dozen Coast Guard cutters cursed the day they

Trade and transportation today are sophisticated, modern activities with equipment to match. Mega-sh

A significant anniversary went almost unnoticed earlier this month.On Oct. 4, 1958, the Brit

It's tempting to compare a Surface Transportation Board with one member to a professional wrestling

In reference to The Journal of Commerce report of Oct. 7 headlined ''NOL says it's seeking line to c

Which 10 Americans have exerted the greatest influence and impact on Asia in the 20th Century? Under

Autocratic. Anti-democratic. Secretive. Unfair. Those are charges hurled by consumer advocate Ralph

Government experts met in Paris earlier this year under the auspices of the United Nations Education

As if supply chain challenges weren't stiff enough, impatient American retailers are starting the Ch

What are we to make of Christopher Columbus? Do we owe him recriminations or thanks? Is he a horrifi

Blame computers. For a few hundred dollars and a little time with a nerd of a salesman, we can all e

A battle is looming on California's waterfront that may be a prelude to broader struggles over worke

The law of unintended consequences has taken root at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. A pol

Some people look up to the stars, but when I was a kid the thing that inspired limitless dreams was

The Franco-German alliance will continue to call the shots in the European Union in the wake of Gerh

Except for noting that fast-track had suffered a ''resounding defeat'' in the House, William Roberts

Since the dawn of politics, it has always been convenient for politicians to blame foreigners and un

Readers fixated on The Starr Report and the House Judiciary Committee have missed some major activit

Rarely in modern history has an International Monetary Fund-World Bank annual meeting proved as impo

The collapse of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund has clearly demonstrated serious flaws i

Global finance leaders meeting in Washington this week failed to galvanize public support for the ma

About a year ago, I was one of the first journalists fortunate enough to participate in the REX expe