Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Montana has been getting some bad press lately, gaining a reputation as a haven for reactionaries an

''It hath been a general complaint that the poor-house . . . hath been of no benefit to this city, f

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

LIMITED LIABILITYHELPS SMALL FIRMSWilliam McCurdy Jr. has properly identified the need to ad

Not long ago, they seemed like the sick men of America. They made steel, autos and textiles.

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

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

''This administration has two problems. First, it is choking the economy with unnecessary regulation

Bill Morton hated to fly. One trip stands out in my mind as having particularly unnerved him. It was

Good highways and airports are critical to a strong economy, but are they more important than better

A recent extended discussion between a South African official and a visiting American business deleg

To listen to the political demagogues, one might think that the North American Free Trade Agreement

Florida's agricultural department has stopped inspecting trucks entering the state for e-coli contam

WTO MARITIME TALKSARE MISGUIDEDI hasten to correct the World Trade Organization propaganda c

Jack Shienkman, president of Americans for Democratic Action, thinks the main issue in this year's e

''In climate modeling, nearly everybody cheats a little,'' the journal Science reported in the fall