Commentary

A memorable wine bar from my university days in Australia flashed back as I meandered from one gloom

The big cloud on the U.S. economic horizon today is the Asian crisis. The United States should end a

Proponents of foreign aid and environmental initiatives rarely find many allies among Republicans in

Julian L. Simon, 65, a prolific writer who taught economics at the University of Maryland, died of a

It's coming. When the Clinton administration reports the nation's final 1997 trade results next week

When Uncle Sam closed the books on fiscal 1997, federal budgeteers were shocked to find the deficit

In his recent State of the Union address, President Clinton again proposed plans to improve educatio

Raghuraj Pratap Singh - politician, minor feudal lord and a man accused of 13 serious crimes - is ou

Long after the rubble has been swept away, residents of disaster-prone areas often face a financial

The middle-aged woman stood in the bitter cold, a small array of cheap barrettes and hairbands sprea

When President Clinton met with his Brazilian counterpart last October, he was told, ''The new globa

The United States, in a move that should be accepted by acclamation, has proposed a World Trade Orga

The U.S. economy continues to operate at a robust level of performance, but early warning signs are

The Europeans, especially the French, are taking their usual patronizing attitude toward our latest

Boris Yeltsin's recent ''world war'' outburst in Moscow and the role Russia's shuttling diplomats ar

Raymond W. Kelly, the muscular treasury undersecretary for enforcement, has been a weightlifter for

The administration's message is getting through to Congress: If the developed countries don't respon

As tobacco companies settle multibillion dollar cases with state governments over the health costs o

In keeping with the classic form of re-election years, congressional leaders have plans to spend the

The recent financial crisis in East Asia has given China's leaders another headache in addition to t

Recently I was asked by an owner of a 2-year-old health-care software company whether or not the com

Five years ago, when Paul Keating was prime minister of Australia, he firmly informed Queen Elizabet

Not long before the First World War plunged Europe into chaos, German novelist Thomas Mann rode a tr

Of all the challenges facing South Korea and the other cash-strapped ''tiger'' economies, none is mo

The use of short-term capital controls to curb ''hot money'' flows to developing countries is an ide

Aconference last week that at one time was supposed to generate momentum in Congress for ''fast-trac

What gets front-page coverage when Monica Lewin- sky leaves Washington? It's the ''Free the Winnie

It was 1986, and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Bob Packwood, R-Ore., was desperate to rescue a m

The Clinton administration, applying its theory that all good things should be subsidized with tax d

Who says there are no second acts in American life? Certainly not the third-generation hopefuls tryi

The federal government, chartered by the U.S. Constitution to ''secure the blessings of liberty to o

Everyone has had the experience of hearing something different from what was said, or watching someo

No one can reliably predict our economic or political future because actual events will depend on wh

The United States and Japan reached a historic aviation agreement last week that promises to send mo

Just as analysts thought the Asian crisis was over, the word from Seoul is that the Korean governmen

Boris Yeltsin, the Russian president who thinks Japan and Germany are nuclear powers, predicted Worl

Alexei Ilyushenko, the prisoner the Russian government would rather forget, sits in a three-man cell

Leaving aside increased income inequality, it is widely acknowledged that the last few years have be

One of the great World Trade Organization success stories has been its judicial system, which forces

Until recently, America's public managers have too often resigned themselves to the legal entrenchme