Commentary

Advocates of aggressive actions to avert potential damages from global climate change are frequently

Returning to Tokyo after two months of recharging intellectual and inspirational batteries at Stanfo

Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its strongest rival, the center-right Na

By their very design, health maintenance organizations can naturally be expected to irritate people.

POSTAL SERVICE CAN'TDELIVER NEWSPAPERS ON TIME''Free the Mail,'' says your July 7 editorial

After nearly four years of sometimes tortured debate, an ocean shipping deregulation bill is close t

The old saying that history repeats itself may soon come to pass for rural America, with disastrous

South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was formed on the premise that only when the trut

U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky and her fellow trade ministers from the 18 economies o

In a town known for hyperbole, Associate Attorney General Robert Litt may have taken the prize when

Fears once again are rising that China may devalue its currency. This week, a Chinese government thi

Supply chain management, once an arcane specialty, has become mainstream.Supply chain integr

For emerging-market investors, the concept of pivotal states - nations that have a more significant

The House may have passed a campaign finance reform bill this week, but big contributors will always

CARRIERS SHOULD NOTHAVE ANTITRUST IMMUNITYWe are glad to see someone else complaining about

BY ERIK CRAFTAmerica's passenger train system has announced a 6 percent increase in ridershi

With sultry weather here, can the back-to-school spending spree be far behind? Merchants are rubbing

As the U.S. trade deficit soars, so does the risk of trade conflict. So far, trade relations with As

In the future, government-issued money as we know it may disappear as people choose to hold electron

Vice President Al Gore wasn't in Moscow long enough last month to catch a performance of a fairy tal

SHIPPING BILL NEEDSFURTHER INVESTIGATIONPeter Tirschwell, your assistant managing editor, is

People who eat organic foods are about eight times more likely to be attacked by the deadly new E. c

You need a new sweater. You take out your mail-order catalog of choice and browse around. You've dec

In recent decades, Argentina usually has been in the eye of the storm whenever emerging-market natio

As cities and states weigh in with their own sanctions to influence foreign nations, they may be ign

Asia's economic crisis was expected to lead to an export surge as weakened currencies made goods mor

There is increasing media and political attention being paid to ''Doomsday'' scenarios of domestic t

The Black Forest's old-time craftsmen used to consider wooden cuckoo clocks to be high-tech German e

EUROPE'S RUN-AMOKANTITRUST REGULATORSYour July 14 editorial, ''Europe's antitrust war'' (Pag

The way the United Nations and its agencies regard business has changed fundamentally in recent year

The U.S. Senate risks holding three-quarters of a billion Africans hostage to a few American special

Opponents of a landmark shipping deregulation bill are mounting a furious assault to stop it in Cong

Are the good times over for the U.S. economy? After a long run of extraordinary growth, U.S. output

The Journal of Commerce's July 16 editorial, ''Port Competition,'' contains insightful and thought-p

American agriculture is experiencing its worst crisis in decades. Plunging prices have driven farm i

''A blow-dried bellhop to the rich.''That's how Mike Freeman, a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Part

Panama, a nation created for a canal, has always lived in the shadow of American domination.

If you take a taxi - even an obviously creaky one - and it loses its brakes and hits a pedestrian, s

Rape is being systematically used by Burma's military as part of a policy of ethnic cleansing, accor

CORRECTING THE RECORDON CONRAIL'S SALE PRICEThe guest letter you published on July 2, ''Anot