Commentary

An unfortunate thing sometimes happens when I go out to dinner with my wife and friends. At some poi

ALAMEDA CORRIDOR:DEEP IN DEBTThe ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles have established an out

For 50 years, a cruel and arbitrary line divided Europe. On one side of that line, people came toget

Former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm says he will seek the presidential nomination of Ross Perot's Refo

Last week's approval of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific railroad merger was a perfect good-news,

Sometimes Quebec revolutions are actually good for business.Take the quiet revolt now under

Last Monday marked the 64th anniversary of the low of the Dow Jones industrial average during the Gr

It's time once again for the monthly ''solution bundle,'' a listing of things you can stop worrying

From its first fumbling efforts to talk the yen up against the dollar, the Clinton administration ha

Congress seems to have decided that unilateral economic sanctions are the solution to all foreign po

Postal workers celebrated their employer's 25th anniversary last week with nationwide picketing. The

The feel-good mood lasted little more than a week.Any hopes Prime Minister John Major may ha

United Nations officials at a climate change conference in Switzerland criticized ''industrial lobby

INSENSITIVE TALKABOUT TRUCK SIZESI read with almost total disbelief the callousness Ed Emmet

''They teach my children in Spanish in school so they can be busboys and waiters. I teach them in En

Of all the economic theories that gave the dismal science its gloomy reputation, surely the most dep

President Clinton will allow the Helms-Burton Cuban sanctions law to take effect, despite pleas to w

Big mergers spark big opposition, and the pending deal between the Union Pacific and Southern Pacifi

The real cost of corporate downsizing does not show up on the bottom line. Indeed, its far-reaching

Democratic and Republican legislators alike can rejoice when the American people act cooperatively a

MORE VIEWS, MOREDEBATE ON JONES ACTYour coverage of the recent hearing before the House Subc

During the 1920s, H.L. Mencken observed that the only part of the Bill of Rights not violated by the

Executives in the United States are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with re-engineering, the wide

The European Union is about to launch a probe into airline linkups between the United States and Eur

SHIPBUILDERS NEEDGOVERNMENT SUPPORTAs an advocate of the revitalization of the U.S. maritime

Two hundred and twenty years ago, the colonies that were to become the United States of America decl

Freedom to Farm, the legislation signed into law earlier this year, is the most sweeping change in U

If this Congress had a public mandate, it was to lower taxes. That didn't happen, which is sad enoug

The next president of the United States will be either an economic illiterate, a shameful political

Last month's soccer hooliganism after England's loss to Germany may have come as a surprise to some,

Radovan Karadzic, the most-wanted Bosnian Serb, keeps thumbing his nose at the Dayton peace accords,

Russians vote today in the most important election in the history of their young democracy. Boris Ye

The Institute for Policy Innovation and the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution have just released a n

YANG MING TREATEDSTOWAWAYS HUMANELYWe would like to clarify some of the issues raised in All

Europe starts and stops, it sputters and staggers - and yet it has continued muddling forward for ne

Many Americans say the Japanese market is closed to foreign trade. Certainly, some segments of the J

The nasty debate over U.S. wages and foreign trade that dominated the Republican primary campaign la

Some enforcers see it this way: Treat unsafe shipping like prostitution - punish the johns.T

The recent upheaval in the Kremlin may be disturbing, but news from another distant land - Ulan Bato

When German Chancellor Helmut Kohl visited China last fall, his agenda clearly was commercial rights