Commentary

TECHNOLOGY IS threatening personal privacy in new and previously unthinkable ways. That means the Pr

Does the rising number of births to American women herald a new "baby boom" ? Final figures for 1989

Is it the "biggest load of codswallop" or a "decisive breakthrough?" The accuracy of these d

The Bush administration and Congress are trying to chart a new lineup for the International Trade Co

By all evidence, the Cold War is over. The most fundamental implication of that fact is widely under

YOU MIGHT THINK THERE COULDN'T BE worse news than the high U.S. divorce rate. But if you think that,

MEXICAN PRESIDENT Carlos Salinas de Gortari's 18 months in office have been a political high-wire ac

After decades of looking to the United States for export growth, the trading states of Asia have tar

In a concerted effort to cash in on a good thing, a group of American businessmen based in Hong Kong

BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA aren't exactly the world's most creditworthy debtors. Between them, they are ov

NOTHING HAS PERPLEXED the pro-family president more than child care. Despite the political attractio

PRESERVING STATUS QUO IN TRANSPORT IS COSTLYYour editorial of March 30, "The $12 Billion Bar

Fifteen years after the ignominious rooftop flight from the American Embassy in Saigon, the Vietnam

East Europeans from Warsaw to Bucharest agree that their economies must be transformed. The new lead

For nearly 100 years, the common law in the United States has permitted employers to "dismiss their

If there's anything good about pitfalls, it's the pits you don't fall into. You'll know what

ANTITRUST IS NOT THE ONLY AREA in which the justices are serving up confusion. On April 16, they hea

THE ANTITRUST EXTREMISM of the Reagan years has come home to roost. Monday's U.S. Supreme Court dec

PITY THE POOR POLITICIANS in North Carolina, where tobacco still reigns supreme. Squeezed ti

The United States, which earned dubious distinction as the world's largest debtor during the Reagan

For veteran U.S. sailors, Pattaya, Thailand, conjures up memories of the most exotic/erotic experien

TOKYO - When Nabahe Keediniihii, secretary of the Sovereign Indian Nations and a soft-spoken Navajo

INDIA STANDS ALONE on Washington's list of unfair traders. While the United States acted Friday to d

THE NEGOTIATING over Lithuania's future has barely begun, but the recriminations over who bears re

Mexico, the United States and Canada are moving fast in the direction of consolidating what could en

HAZARDOUS MATERIALS DOCUMENTATION VITALWe were very interested in the article, "Environmenta

Labor negotiations in both Germanys are proving to be a key factor in West German monetary policy an

Today, 15 years after the war ended in Vietnam, many of the issues that divided Vietnam remain. Thes

THE PROPOSED EUROPEAN BANK for Reconstruction and Development seems designed to do more for the West

FIFTEEN YEARS AFTER THE END of the Vietnam War, the debate over ending the U.S. trade embargo is on.

The biggest question at the spring International Monetary Fund-World Bank meeting starting Friday is

Symbols are the essence of politics. Nowhere are they more in evidence than in the forced transfer

The 1992 European market integration calls into question the economic future and the very identity

ANYONE WHO'S DODGED THE POTHOLES on Interstate 80 understands the sorry state of the interstate high

CEASING HOSTILITIES isn't easy: Whether it's the Cold War or the War on Poverty, there are always lo

President Mikhail S. Gorbachev recently offered the Lithuanians the Soviet equivalent of a leveraged

I was a bit down in the dumps last week when one of my sources mentioned a star-studded internation

MUTUAL LIFE INSURERS SHOULD PAY MORE TAXIn his April 9 article, "Mutual Life Taxes Are Unfai

Monetary unification represents the backbone of the German unification process. On April 23, the Wes

It would be an exaggeration to say that Africa has been completely upstaged in recent months by what