Commentary

Senate Energy Committee Chairman Frank Murkowski, R-Alaska, employed a maritime metaphor to express

Remember the classic war-movie scene where an enemy grenade lands in the midst of a squad of Marines

''The Next War'' (Regnery, 1996), written by Casper Weinberger, former secretary of defense (with Pe

Several new tax laws during 1996 added 650 separate items to an already extremely complex tax code.

Desperately strapped for cash, North Korea has agreed to become the dumping ground for Taiwan's nucl

WISHING FOR LOWER RATESPOSES RISKS FOR SHIPPERSThe opinion article by Allen Wastler, ''Be ca

Government subsidies to business are again under attack in Congress. Campaigns against ''corporate w

Three years ago, when Eastman Chemical became a public company after more than seven decades as a di

Self-described ''public citizen'' Joan Claybrook knew air bags were potentially lethal when she was

The lines have been drawn and the clock is ticking. In about two weeks, barring a successful negotia

New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani has called for a dramatic construction project to reinvent the

The year is already 8 percent gone, but, our guardian angel advises, there's still time left for a 1

Glenda Jackson, the Oscar-winning star of ''A Touch of Class'' who is applying her thespian skills i

Moscow's in-crowd is abuzz with rumors of President Boris Yeltsin's imminent demise. The Communists

A recent trip to Havana by members of the U.S. House Hispanic Caucus had a less than congressional a

Wednesday's editorial, ''Politics at Commerce,'' should have referred to a congressional, rather tha

Congress is preparing to send another charge through the electric power industry - one that could be

Although it is almost a year since Congress passed a sweeping reform of telecommunications laws, Ame

Naturalist Loren Eiseley once said, ''Modern man, the world eater, respects no space and no thing gr

Sometimes I have to read a newspaper article twice to make sure my eyes do not deceive me. Such was

Recent reports from China describe a rising tide of nationalist sentiments aimed principally at the

SAN FRANCISCO PILOTS WORKON NO-DRUGS POLICYYour Jan. 15 article, ''Bay area pilot probe unde

Congress is gearing up for a new assault on ''corporate welfare'' - subsidy programs and tax breaks

After a 13-month delay, the Clinton administration has decided to comply with the North American Fre

William M. Daley has pledged to Congress that, if confirmed as commerce secretary, he would root p

Earlier this month, President Clinton formally nominated Charlene Barshefsky to be the U.S. trade re

OFF-BUDGET USER FEESARE FAIR TO HIGHWAY USERSRep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa., and his 123 colleagues

Pepsico is the latest among well-known companies stampeding out of Myanmar because of human rights v

How should a company respond when a key executive defects to a competitor?What does the stri

Three of every four insured American workers now get their health care through some form of managed

Will they buy? Or will they sell?The debate continues over whether or not foreign central ba

1996 was a bad year for North Korea's Dear Leader Kim Jong Il. Chosen by his late father, the Great

THE NY-NJ PORT FREIGHTTUNNEL MAKES SENSE . . .Regarding Alan Abrams' opinion article, ''Tunn

As the new session of Congress gets under way, lawmakers are saddled with campaign promises of tax r

Trent Lott is off to a dismal start. The new Congress has been in business less than a month, and al

You've seen the ads on TV: Glimmering, majestic passenger cruise ships gliding through night waters

Now that the U.S. Department of Energy has announced plans to burn immensely dangerous weapons-grade

In what looks from here to be a coup for Canada, Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy and Cuban President

It's bizarre to realize that the question of Taiwan's future could cause a war between America and C

In the beginning was the Beetle.And Volkswagen saw that its ''people's car'' was good. It bu