Commentary

The way I understand the tobacco settlement, it goes something like this: ''We agree to stop marketi

The United States and Britain, outraging Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp, have put business first and

Washington's annual debate on extending most-favored-nation trade status to China has become more pr

Barely two hours after labor patriarch Fidel Velazquez died in the morning of June 21, the Gayosso S

The United States took a drubbing at last week's U.N. Earth Summit in New York for failing to commit

The British have taken down their union jacks and said their toodle-oos and the Hong Kong Chinese (7

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is one of a half-dozen senators who will be raising a glass this we

It is always easier to spend other people's money than to give it back, and that's the lesson of the

Ending a monthlong battle within his administration, President Clinton this week sided with environm

The news in the Great Tobacco War is on hold. Before victory can truly be declared on behalf of the

The Clinton administration has often sent China contradictory messages, angry one moment, friendly t

As the World Trade Organization reviews the U.S. case about Japan's photographic film market, Kodak

DON'T SHORT-CHANGETHE IMFThe June 6 opinion article by Bryan Johnson and Brett Schaefer (''E

Today, a small group of maritime carriers is able to overcharge because they have a Jones Act monopo

Companies are positioned to enter a new phase of cost cutting, and American workers should not expec

THE SHRINKING USPRESENCE IN SHIPPINGThe recent acquisition of APL by Neptune Orient Lines is

Last week's proposed $368 billion settlement to limit the legal liability of cigarette makers is run

Robert E. Allen, chairman and chief executive of AT&T, is unhappy. The Telecommunications Reform Act

Throughout history, every great change has been accompanied by demands by its opponents to ''just go

Now that NATO and Russia have cemented their relations with a new charter, the last diplomatic obsta

When President Clinton wanted to show off the achievements of America's economy during last weekend'

Reform of the electric power industry - already under way in most states - may save consumers many b

For many Americans, the legacy of a $13 billion debt left by former President Mobutu in Zaire, now C

VENTURA, Calif. - As national forests go, the Los Padres seems an anomaly to those who visit it for

While all eyes are on the booming markets of Southeast Asia, companies are seizing business opportun

DON'T JUDGE JAPANBY AMERICAN VALUESThe article, ''U.S. executives say Japan still shuns an o

With excess capacity driving reefer freight rates, cellular operators are expanding their market hor

The starting bell has sounded: CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Corp. have filed their application for

To Jacques Delors, the European Union's summit in Amsterdam last week was a ''flop.'' To his success

Bare-knuckles politics under the Capitol Dome virtually assures that William Clyburn - nephew of Rep

Congress and the White House are about to examine the biggest no-fault plan in U.S. history: the pro

If you could inject $10 billion or more into the U.S. economy, supporting tens, even hundreds, of th

The Maritime Administration's decision to reject Lykes Bros. Steamship Co.'s bankruptcy restructurin

I say we're a blessed people in a blessedly prosperous nation in a peaceful world where the tyrants

Even as leaders of the leftist-nationalist Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) order champagne to t

The annual spring rite of renewing China's most-favored-nation trading status is coming to an end. A

Californians are in crisis mode. Is the cause drive-by shootings, tornadoes or the mother of all qua

Well-meaning Americans favor rescinding China's trade privileges. They believe that punitive economi

In choosing William Hague as their new leader, Conservative members of Parliament largely ignored bo

GINGRICH VIEWS MISSTATEDIN NAFTA PARITY ARTICLEYour coverage of Speaker Newt Gingrich's posi