Commentary

President Suharto of Indonesia should wake up and smell the java. The world is a dramatically change

In its more meddlesome moments, Congress has been accused by local governments of trying to act as t

One result of the scandal gripping the White House over President Clinton's reputed affair with a fe

American businesses have substantial stakes in the outcome of the debate over Social Security, not l

Police in Baden-Wurttemberg are scouring supermarket shelves for baby food poisoned by a blackmailer

President Clinton's State of the Union pronouncement to ''save Social Security first'' by reserving

America's political leaders are feeling rather proud of their deficit-cutting skills at the moment.

The Ukrainian government was delighted when South Korea's Daewoo agreed to invest $1.3 billion in th

Houmani Farahani, a 22-year-old conscript soldier in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, stands in fro

Say goodbye to another pillar of President Clinton's illusory bridge to the 21st century - the Multi

A federal district court ruling Tuesday, which held that Texas beef producers cannot use that state'

The projections in the president's new budget indicate that for the first time since 1969, balance i

Even the greatest of Russians has been known to make stupid counting mistakes.In his 1834 pa

Will the International Monetary Fund have to bail out New York state? New York is hardly the next As

Golfer Casey Martin brought the controversial Americans with Disabilities Act to an unusual place: t

The economic forces of globalization are also leading to political fragmentation that results in mor

The United States has led in transforming highly regulated, sleepy industries like airlines and tele

Sea power has long been one of America's strongest assets in maintaining our world leadership. As cu

The first time Boris Yeltsin warned that American air strikes on Iraq could lead to World War III, a

International financial markets are at a crossroads.The decline in Asian emerging equity mar

I have been recently contacted by someone who has been looking into the possibility of exporting som

An independent arbitration panel found U.S. import quotas and duties on Mexican handmade corn brooms

When they're all singing the same lines on Capitol Hill and in the White House about orchestrating g

For the fifth time in 16 months, Richard McDowell is heading to Baghdad - in direct violation of fed

Monica Lewinsky has a lot to answer for in Europe.The way continental Europeans see it, Pres

Washington and Tokyo are in a dialogue of the deaf. Clinton administration officials urge Japan to d

They may not have a glitzy name, but 401(k) retirement plans have become hugely popular among Americ

During my 25 years in the U.S. Senate, I've dealt with a number of tough problems. But there's one t

As Bruce Barnard mentions on these pages, British Prime Minister Tony Blair may have been a hit in W

In something of an anticlimax, the White House last week finally admitted that President Clinton has

Japan is down, mired in a returning ''recession,'' though it's not official yet. But being the secon

For years now, China has attempted to emulate the industrialization model of other Asian countries b

Strong U.S. job growth continues to point to the unprecedented underlying soundness of America's lon

The U.S. telecommunications revolution that was supposed to crack open competition, increase consume

The Department of Commerce has yielded to reason and decided to ease restrictions on the export of e

With much of Asia in economic convulsions, a plump Beijing economist thrashes an imaginary whip to e

In the wake of the Asian economic crisis, some of China's die-hard communists have adopted an ''I to

The chaos of the Great Depression leading into World War II convinced American leaders that economic

It's one of the great mysteries of the world: How is it even statistically possible for attractive s

Millions of Americans remember ''Remember the Maine!'' but few remember why.At 9:40 p.m. on