Commentary

Foreign aid is not the most popular government program. As most taxpayers are aware, much of America

U.S. consumers will pay a price for their government's decision on Tuesday to cut imports of Europea

Doing business today often means going abroad. And going abroad always means encountering different

NO NEED TO CHANGEORIGIN LABELING RULESI am writing to set the record straight on claims by t

As the new Congress and the executive branch get down to business, the time has come to restore mome

With memories of the Uruguay Round's bitter agri- cultural trade disputes just starting to fade, tr

Long-distance telephone competition officially arrives today in this sprawling capital. The new carr

Britain's general election on May 1 should be a cinch for Prime Minister John Major. The economy is

President Clinton says ''the era of big government is over,'' and his budget claims to be ''cutting

Earlier this year, the impossible happened - or so it seemed. The chairman of a massive government-c

The U.S. Congress is about to get a dose of its own medicine, as the Capitol Hill police vote whethe

It takes a cloned sheep or the mystery of mad cow disease to put agricultural research on the front

Let the annals of trade history record that the Clinton administration's opening pitch for an expand

WHY NOT SPEND HIGHWAYFUNDS ON AMTRAK?Rick Henderson's article entitled ''Tasty highway pork'

Two Swiss chemical companies have agreed to pay $25 million in criminal fines and plead guilty to co

The European Union has announced it will pump $2.1 billion in subsidies into shipyards in Spain, Ger

Remember Clintoncare and its massive task force of 500 experts, all working in secret to overhaul th

During the 104th Congress, the House ethics process tagged a number of prominent members, including

''Reform the United Nations'' has long been a rallying cry for those who think the world body is spe

The anti-China trade lobby, an eclectic mixture of conservatives, protectionists, labor unions and c

President Clinton's recently unveiled $50 billion education proposal is based on the now discredited

Boris Yeltsin changes Cabinet ministers like most people change socks. In pursuit of economic restru

The U.S. Treasury is about to repay nearly one-half of what it owes the World Bank's International D

According to most analysts, the strong U.S. dollar represents a clear and present danger to the grow

Basta!Enough! Congress should rescind its requirement that the administration annually certi

It's a long way from rural America to the markets of China, but that vast distance can be bridged by

BROKERS CAN DEAL WITHLAWYERS, NOT CONSULTANTSYour March 10 article, ''Provide and analyze in

As Chairman Alan Greenspan has been hinting for weeks, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates thi

A month ago, a group of senior administration executives came up with an idea: Why not stage a ''med

The United States and the European Union are heading toward another showdown over access to each oth

America's economy is experiencing a sustained resurgence. Profit and productivity are up. We are the

Only days after a bruising fight over naming Mexico as noncooperative in the war on drugs, Congress

Politics in Washington is once again beginning to interfere with policy. That's always a dangerous l

Dr. Strangelove's wheelchair clattered against the side of the War Room conference table ashe wheele

KEEP THE FEDERALHIGHWAY PROGRAMYour March 14 editorial, ''Paying for Highways'' (Page 6A), i

No farmer would look at a pasture full of starving cows and refuse to fertilize his grass, especiall

They're off! British Prime Minister John Major has visited the Queen at Buckingham Palace and receiv

An effervescent President Boris Yeltsin took home from the Helsinki summit a bag of presents from hi

The Federal Reserve Board, which sets the nation's monetary policy, is in a predicament. The economy

According to Washington, the hazardous wasted generated by private industry is a national crisis. At