Commentary

WHAT'S AHEAD FOR THE NEW YEAR? Your guess is as good as ours, but we offer these picks anyway:

WITH NAFTA EXPANSION stalled by trade gridlock in Washington, Canada is moving ahead on its own. Can

The European Commission is in for a rough ride this year, and that's bad news for Europe. Th

Caught up in the blow-by-blow accounts of the budget battle in Washington, one might suppose that so

'INVENTED SPELLING' IS REAL TO CHILDRENI agree with Bob Dole's concern with students' readin

Behind the scenes of the budget debate, the Clinton administration is expanding the federal governme

ALEXANDER LEBED, the charismatic Russian general, has made it official: He will run for the presiden

The curtain has dropped on the first session of the 104th Congress. It was a disappointing performan

TWELVE MONTHS AGO, America's transportation industries were poised for major change. 1995 delivered

When I was a graduate student in Italy years ago, one of my American friends used to play a folk son

By the time lawmakers in Washington are done, many programs that have babied and bullied U.S. agricu

Today everybody seems to be talking about the flat tax. It's fairer. It's simpler. It's cost

Early last week, more than two years of intense diplomacy, tough negotiations and extensive planning

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, 1995 was not an annus horribilis. A majority of the world's population now li

BANKRUPT AND HUNGRY, North Korea is increasingly using blackmail as an instrument of foreign policy.

TURKEY'S ELECTION Sunday, in which the religion-based Welfare Party won a plurality, should raise co

The financial community cheered last week when the Federal Reserve System lowered its target for sho

IF ALL GOES according to plan, Canada's transport minister, Doug Young, will soon be offered a bigge

Western investors watched apprehensively as Russian voters went to the polls earlier this month. Wha

Republican leaders in Congress might save themselves a lot of grief by paying attention to the commu

NAVY VIOLATES SHIP-NAMING RULESDonald B. Fraser Jr. is unduly sensitive to the traditions of

Political dogma could cost the lives of seafarers and stifle efforts to clean up the world's oceans.

One of the most important, but underreported, stories of 1995 is the shocking failure of the nation'

POLISH PRESIDENT LECH WALESA, who exploded on the political scene 16 years ago, is leaving with a ba

AS THE OLD YEAR COMES TO AN END so too does GATT, the venerable institution that has championed free

PLEDGES OF $500 MILLION in aid to Bosnia-Herzegovina is a good way to start rebuilding the country a

Around this time of year, we routinely hear complaints about the "excessive commercialism" of Christ

Either you have faith in Argentina or you don't. President Carlos Menem has sought to transf

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED to the U.S. steel industry on its way to oblivion: It recovered. Afte

HOW TO PROMOTE FREER TRADEYour Nov. 28 editorial, "Selling Free Trade," (Page 6A), understan

When Russians went to the polls last weekend, domestic issues clearly mattered most: the state of th

A few questions, please. Who said "the abandonment of (protectionism) . . . must result in t

NEW HAMPSHIRE, site of the first presidential primary, is also home to plenty of lobbyists. Those se

ICC BILL: AWFUL DEAL FOR RAIL LABORWe noted with interest a letter in your Dec. 1 edition, "

EXPANDING the European Union into Central and Eastern Europe has become more complicated than ever.

DELAYING the North American Free Trade Agreement's provisions on greater cross-border access for tru

Surprisingly, the first reaction of Gennady Zyuganov, the leader of Russia's Communist Party, to the

WHAT NEXT FOR RUSSIA? Sunday's legislative election settled little: One fractured parliament will re

The commercial banking system in the United States is imploding at a remarkable pace. For decades, b

The White House, members of both parties and their court economists have agreed to change the way th