Commentary

As Norfolk Southern and CSX Corp. seek federal approval of their $10 billion Conrail breakup plan, t

The United States has discovered the Caspian Sea. Or, rather, U.S. oil companies have, and they have

President Clinton has until Monday to decide whether to use his brand new line-item veto power and s

The U.S. Department of Defense faces a paradoxical management challenge. Although threats to the nat

In his more than four years in office, President Clinton has learned one of the great truths of life

HARBOR TAX ON EXPORTSIS UNCONSTITUTIONALDavis Helberg's ''On the Waterfront'' column (July 2

How much is saving face worth? A lot in Japan, if the latest financial scandal provides any clue. No

Internet users thought they could breathe a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court recently struck do

Bonn held a street party the other night - a strange notion indeed since anyone who knows the extend

Iran got itself a new president this week, and already there is talk that it's time for the United S

Just when there is rising concern over China as a threat to our national security, two Cabinet-level

Striking Teamsters have been defiant and determined during this week's walkout at United Parcel Serv

FORGING A NEWJAPAN AVIATION DEALIn an opinion article entitled ''Settling for crumbs'' (July

Canadians have a love-hate relationship with their Big Six banks.On the one hand, they're ha

Secret monitoring of employees has grown dramatically because of increasingly sophisticated technolo

This fall, just before next year's midterm election politics put it out of reach, President Clinton

The claim is that cancer prevention receives too slim a share of government research funds and is a

The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, long criticized for inefficiency, has found a worthy p

If your life sometimes seems like a mad round of business meetings, unanswered e-mails, truncated va

Undersecretary of State Stuart Eizenstat has become one of the Clinton administration's most articul

This must be the most successful moment in the European left's postwar history. Three of Western Eur

Recent events in the Czech Republic, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia demonstrate o

Americans are increasingly skeptical about free trade. So say some of the nation's most vocal consum

Even before he resigned to lobby for Senate confirmation to be U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Massachuse

South Korea imported five tons of mozzarella cheese in 1993. Last year, it imported more than 8,000

THOUSANDS OF PRODUCERSBACK SHIPPING REFORMOn behalf of the American Forest & Paper Associati

In mid-July, two U.S. senators mounted a challenge to a controversial and central component of Ameri

Four years ago, United Nations peace-keeping forces oversaw Cambodia's first free national elections

Japan and the United States face an uphill battle to win domestic and regional support for a planned

President Clinton has said he will not intervene in the United Parcel Service strike ''at this time.

Without access to world-call highways, ports and railroads, American industry cannot compete in inte

A strain of midsummer madness is infecting Europe that will force its leaders to reset their politic

U.S. SHIPPERS WILL WINREFORM OF JONES ACTGeorge J. Ryan's July 30 attack (''Subsidies, civil

China's booming economy conceals a rotten core: hundreds of thousands of money-losing, state-owned c

On Aug. 28, 1996, President Clinton announced that for the first time in its history, the Food and D

Now that the initial fever surrounding the tobacco settlement has subsided, health experts have exam

Sure, United Airlines did a major survey and found that business travelers are disgruntled and agita

For many environmentalists, biotechnology conjures up unsettling images of killer tomatoes and mutan

The Surface Transportation Board has a duty to safeguard shippers when railroads merge, but does it?

The Bangkok authorities have finally approved plans for the construction of the much-needed new airp