Commentary

Pat Buchanan's new book, ''The Great Betrayal,'' is both economics and social philosophy. Reviews of

PANAMA IS READYTO TAKE OVER THE CANALHolger Jensen's July 31 article, ''Panama's crony capit

Union Pacific Railroad, which has been plagued by service delays and congestion for more than a year

The U.S. attack on terrorist sites in Afghanistan and Sudan is dramatic evidence of the new and tort

A look across Europe's employment map yields some interesting observations.Clearly, the rate

Down the street, work crews are renovating the old school building in my neighborhood. The project,

The United States has an obligation to assist Kenya and Tanzania in repairing the physical damage to

Has Bill Clinton dodged another bullet? Mr. Clinton still faces serious charges as the Kenneth Starr

Recently, the International Longshoremen's Association and the New York Shipping Association have ta

Like a torpedoed ship, Japan is sinking fast. A bad debt crisis has paralyzed its economy, and trill

The outlook for world financial markets hinges crucially on whether the yen halts its fall and Japan

Nellie Bly rounded the world in 80 days. Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic. Americans put the

The New York Yankees are prompting the rhetorical question: Is this the best team in the history of

With each tremor of the American stock market, heretofore considered immune to the year-old Asian cr

Support for privatizing Social Security has snowballed during the past year. The famous ''third rail

The overall U.S. trade deficit narrowed a bit in June, but the shortfall with Asia's troubled econom

Bill Clinton never used the word ''lie'' in his extraordinary speech Monday evening, but that was th

It borders on the Kafkaesque.The Clinton administration fails to enforce a law the president

While President Clinton endures the sizzling summer of Monica, Al Gore has become the nation's weath

WATCH OUT FORTHOSE WINDMILLSPhilip Klasky's opinion article, ''The 'waste train' '' (July 24

Europe, the birthplace of political ideology, looks like its becoming its burial ground.The

Even as Japan pursues broad reforms to reinvigorate its slumping economy, corruption at the core of

President Clinton's upcoming summit with Russian President Boris Yeltsin comes at a critical moment

Russia's free fall accelerated Monday when the government effectively devalued the ruble, a new low

With the U.S. stock market's decline in recent weeks, political types cannot resist looking to Washi

AMTRAK CAN PROSPERWITH ENOUGH INVESTMENTIn his Aug. 5 opinion article, (''Amtrak vs. airline

In the midst of a tough re-election campaign, Sen. Alfonse D'Amato, R-N.Y., is posing as a champion

Brunei is a tiny sultanate on the island of Borneo, awash in oil and satellite dishes, whose absolut

In just a couple of weeks, trade representatives from throughout the Americas will meet in Miami for

Americans, especially politicians, tend to think of China as a rapidly growing global giant, threate

Colombia's new president, Andres Pastrana, promises to stem the flood of cocaine his country pours i

COMMERCE STANDS READYTO HELP US EXPORTERSAs an employee of the Department of Commerce's Comm

Exactly one year before the year 2000 blazes its trail over worldwide computer systems, American bus

It is said that everyone wants a wife. This is not a sexist remark so much as it is a fact. The trad

It is 11 years this month that Alan Greenspan took office as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Captive rail shippers are bitterly disappointed by the Surface Transportation Board's conscious deci

The world just got some vital new ammunition for its fight to end hunger and save wildlands.

As U.S. interests continue to evolve beyond the agenda of the Cold War, American diplomats and execu

With the Japanese yen continuing to drop against the dollar, the usual doomsayers are responding wit

Critics of embattled German Chancellor Helmut Kohl like to say he has run out of ideas for governing