Commentary

The indignities and inconveniences that are built into air travel are now being joined by a high-tec

History will rate China's Deng Xiaoping as the world's greatest communist leader.He's the on

Congress once again is attempting to pass the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

There are two ways to amend the Constitution to require a balanced budget: the right way and the wro

TRUCK CABOTAGE NOTALLOWED UNDER NAFTAA recent story was misleading concerning open borders u

In Tokyo this week, central bankers and finance officials from Asia and the United States will test

America's doctors are skilled at saving lives, but they are equally adept at saving something else:

Britain's pound note was 200 years old last week. The first ''oncer'' and its short-lived brother, t

Labor unions have started to reap a return on the $35 million they spent to help Democrats in last y

The leaders of the U.S. and Europe are dealing with their Helms-Burton problem like children, not st

A new entrepreneurial age has dawned, thanks to forces as disparate as downsizing, restless retirees

Many of America's great cities grew up around ports. But today those ports are being neglected - a d

A recent opinion article by Peter Tirschwell entitled ''Running aground on the Jones Act'' (Feb. 10,

The European Union should do more to attract investment from the rising Asian economies, starting wi

The Commerce Department, which has been accused of stacking its foreign trade missions with heavywei

Whatever happened to the vaunted New Transatlantic Agenda of December 1995, in which President Clint

More and more U.S. cities are trying to buy themselves some aviation prestige by paying airlines to

The Federal Maritime Commission said this week that starting April 14, it will slap $100,000 fines o

The day Massachusetts bans goods from, say, Illinois made by a company doing business in Indonesia i

FINDING A BURIAL SPOTFOR NUCLEAR WASTEPresident Clinton says he opposes a bill to establish

Some members of Congress and human rights activists are pushing the Clinton administration to impose

Instead of a scrunched-up, one column headline, which is what you got in last Sunday's New York Time

South of the Rio Grande River, there's a saying: ''Mexico: So far from God, so close to the United S

I never know whether to be amused or frustrated by the self-interested pleadings of America's welfar

BRAZIL'S DEFENSE BUDGETIS THERE FOR ALL TO SEEI read with great interest the opinion article

Everyone knows Mexico has dirty cops, but the latest case of corruption involves an army general and

Is this, finally, the Year of the Americas? After a couple of years of hesitation, is the push for h

Hong Kong has waited on tenterhooks for years fearing the impact of Deng Xiaoping's death on the fut

In addition to dealing with scandals of its own making, the Clinton administration is busy defusing

Try as he may, President Clinton has not been able to twist the public's understanding of his tacky

If you care about open trade and free markets, mark Feb. 20 on your calendar in black. The United St

President Clinton's favorite boast these days is that ''the economy has created 11.2 million jobs''

Deregulation is at last coming to the nation's $208 billion monopoly electric utility industry. Alon

Now that the question of ship subsidies is settled - sort of - maybe this year Congress can do somet

One of the wondrous sideshows of modern medical research is the war on coffee, apparently driven by

When a top business manager declared recently that ''the European Monetary Union marketing campaign

The futility of America's unilateral export controls was highlighted yet again this week when Russia

OECD SHIPBUILDING PACTIS UNFAIR TO US INTERESTSYour Jan. 28 editorial criticizing Majority L

How important can a country of 14 million people be for the United States? Plenty, if it is Chile, t

America's foreign trade deficit looks gargantuan. According to 1996 figures released last week, the