Commentary

DON'T BURY THE PORT OF BOSTONYour Oct. 17 editorial, "Too Many Ports?" (Page 6A), dr

FARMERS FOR DECADES have relied more on government subsidies than on the market to ensure their fina

STATE AND FEDERAL transportation officials tend to agree on one thing: The National Highway System b

PROTECTING CARIBOU FROM OIL DRILLINGYour interesting Oct. 17 story on the porcupine

The policies of the 180-member International Monetary Fund are set by a powerful group known as the

Been there. Done that. That's what the former executives of now-defunct Pan Am, Eastern and

SMOKING IS TOLERATED to a far greater extent in Europe than in the United States, but that doesn't m

AMERICA'S RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA is off the critical list, but it is hardly healthy. This week's me

This baby boomer gets regularly thrashed at tennis by people who are collecting Social Security, Med

Cuba's National Assembly approved a new law last month that was intended to stimulate foreign invest

WHO HAS LOST THE MOST from the Clinton administration's trade embargo against Iran? As many predicte

This Friday morning, the Commerce Department should confirm what most economists think they already

VIETNAM has made great progress in converting its economy from central management to free enterprise

THE UNITED STATES has become the world's pre-eminent deadbeat, reneging on its treaty obligations to

WIPE TRUCKING REGS OFF THE BOOKSWhen Congress eliminates the Interstate Commerce Com

The art of diplomacy is about finesse, discretion and other subtle forms of communication. But when

When German Chancellor Helmut Kohl felt the need to nudge Francois Mitterrand toward closer European

TWO YEARS AGO THIS MONTH tanks were shelling Russia's White House and Boris Yeltsin was struggling t

GOOD NEIGHBORS will try to help each other in a pinch - unless, of course, the U.S. Immigration and

The computer, the Internet, lasers, the space shuttle, microwave ovens, CAT scans. All of these prod

The U.S. Congress deserves credit when it does something right. Case in point: the Senate Finance Co

House Republican leaders are pushing the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1995 toward certain House pass

Some old myths never seem to die. This is true of the latest accusations leveled against the North A

SEN. BOB DOLE and Chiquita Brands International have a legitimate gripe against European restriction

CONGRESS took an important step this week to preserve what's left of the nation's fisheries. By a wi

Is America a country of environmental zealots willing to blindly follow the lead of others?

The Swiss national elections, slated to take place Sunday, are expected to bedull and uneven

THE TIDAL WAVE of crime and corruption in Russia has claimed another victim. Top banker Mikhail Zhur

Ask a Canadian what happened on Nov. 25, 1976, and chances are you'll draw a blank stare. On

Once again, America is focused on the sorry state of its race relations. There has been endless comm

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES have been the mainstay of foreign shipbuilders for decades. That has been a goo

To help clean up the air over America's metropolitan areas, should we quit expanding highways? That'

What to do about Cuba? It is a question that has bedeviled seven presidents, innumerable experts in

TURKEY, long known as the sick man of Europe, has been doing little lately to heal itself. A

COMPELLING ISSUES FOR BANKS, THRIFTSIn his Oct. 4 article, "The Disappearing Thrift Industry

I recently had my bicycle fixed in Tokyo. After finding a shop that could do the work, I brought it

GERMANY is gradually opening once-closed monopolies to foreign competition. In the case of its telep

HISTORY RUNS STRONG in the maritime industry. Nearly every major metropolitan area on the East Coast

It doesn't rank alongside the fall of the Berlin Wall, but last Sunday Finns celebrated the first an

A striking aspect of the new global economy has been the exclusion of Sub- Saharan Africa. While Eas