Commentary

When the Soviet empire collapsed, a key question vexed economists: how to switch from a planned to a

For no apparent reason, the Clinton administration has reversed itself by clearing an arms shipment

Last month, the trade ministers of the 34 democratically elected governments of the Western Hemisphe

I read with dismay the attack on Conrail - thinly disguised as a defense of the widely opposed Union

The language wars are heating up in Quebec.A couple of weeks ago, in Montreal's own version

It would be wrong to say that relations between China and Taiwan had returned to normal after Beijin

SHIP PACTWILL HURT USYour April 1 editorial (''Ratify the Ship Pact,'' Page 6A) is misleadin

President Clinton's visit to Japan this week has not - for a change - been dominated by trade disput

A retired Army colonel paints houses for a living. A former general sells used cars to make ends mee

''I think it is totally wrong to be taking that money in as a user fee and then transferring it to h

Pat Buchanan's failed campaign for the Republican presidential nomination seems doomed to become lit

The long-term slowdown in growth is the principal problem facing America. The equally long-run decli

A first-round legal reform of product liability has now been voted on by Congress. It's a good start

Whenever groups of companies get together to sell something, it makes buyers nervous.The rea

By appointing Mickey Kantor, his top trade negotiator, as secretary of Commerce, President Clinton s

HARBOR UPKEEPNEEDS TRUST FUNDRep. Bud Shuster, R-Pa, deserves credit for focusing the spotli

The world aviation market is bigger than ever, generating $1 trillion in economic activity and more

Health care reform in France is one of the government's biggest headaches. Curtailing the country's

Several weeks ago, a high-level, bipartisan council appointed by President Clinton submitted a repor

The airplane crash that claimed the life of 7-year-old Jessica Dubroff has triggered a national deba

Twenty-five years ago this month China invited a team of U.S. ping pong players to Beijing, thus ina

April 15 is an anxious day for America's tax procrastinators. It is not a pleasant day for everyone

IN DEFENSEOF ACADEMIC FREEDOMAfter reading Karen E. King's opinion article on the American e

Lobbyist Ann Eppard, Rep. Bud Shuster's top political aide, seems intent on trying to ''inoculate''

With fanfare, the heads of government of the 15 nations of the European Union met in a reconverted a

For one hour last February President Clinton and the new Japanese prime minister, Ryutaro Hashimoto,

Washington seems to have fallen in love with state governments as the solution to all of the nation'

The United States still has a huge auto trade deficit with Japan, but the momentum in the cross-Paci

The global warming debate is heating up again. This year's erratic weather - including April snows i

It is quite apparent that we are running out of nicknames for America's sports teams - or the imagin

U.S. Ambassador to Mexico James R. Jones possesses the trade credentials, business contacts and poli

The need for the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger is as clear today as it was eight months ago

Taking another cue from his spiritual master, Adolf Hitler, Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirin

When Bob Dole opted to retain his Senate leadership post while continuing his quest for the White Ho

It's been almost 10 years since the Chernobyl disaster changed the way the world views the nuclear l

A few months ago, companies like America Online claimed that the new Microsoft Network online servic

Benjamin Franklin remarked two centuries ago that the only certainties in life were death and taxes.

North Korea ripped up its 1953 armistice agreement with South Korea over the weekend in what is the

It's a simple story. In a hotly contested presidential election, the administration appeases domesti

While political interest has been focused on presidential primaries and on developments in Bosnia an