Commentary

HIGHWAY USERS PAY THEIR OWN WAYThe seemingly endless debate over who really pays for using t

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

LYKES BROTHERS, one of the nation's oldest shipping lines, has been walking afinancial tight

THE HEYDAY of the British Empire is long past, but some of its better traditions endure. Consider th

Shortly after Mexico became embroiled in the peso crisis, India's finance minister, Manmohan Singh,

Government is supposed to be a matter of laws, not men, but you can't excludefrom the equati

When I was a college student during the 1960s, Keynesian economists boasted of their ability to micr

DON'T LISTEN TO THE PIG FARMERSFollow the money. That simple Watergate-era admonitio

On Oct. 30, the citizens of Quebec will vote in a referendum to decide whether to remain as a part o

POWERFUL COMPUTERS can be assembled today almost as easily as a child assembles Tinker Toys. That's

THE SPRATLYS, a cluster of islands and reefs in the South China Sea, have long loomed as a potential

How long can the United States continue to provide global political leadership when it fails to pay

PRIVATE ENTERPRISE has triumphed over the centrally planned economy, right? That's the message that

The long national obsession is largely over. Civil suits will be fought, defense lawyers may

Long considered among the more erudite of American politicians, presidential candidate Adlai Stevens

As we approach the new millennium, doomsayers predict disaster and devastation. But there is another

THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION has been criticized by Pat Buchanan as the forerunner of a global gover

AUSTRALIA SENT A STERN WARNING to South Korea and Japan this week, one both countries would do well

Politicians are always on the prowl for opportunities to offer the voters a free lunch - programs th

It's a quarter to six on a crisp autumn morning, the sun is still pale brass and "Stardust," as swee

Just as the nomadic Somalis have 45 names for the camel because of its central role in their lives,

AMERICA'S TRANSPORTATION NETWORK has always been vulnerable to terrorist attack - only until this we

MEXICAN PRESIDENT Ernesto Zedillo arrives in Washington this week on a tide of good wishes. American

It was only a few years ago that Vladimir Shirochenkov was a mechanic on a Soviet ship, stuck in mid

With the Republican landslide last year, the American foreign aid bureaucracy has become the target

PRESIDENT CLINTON, like most politicians, has a habit of straddling sensitive issues, and his new Cu

August 1995 witnessed a sea change in global currency markets. The U.S.dollar, which had bee

THE UNITED NATIONS, which has promised to move beyond the tired North-South debates of the past, has

MANY HARBOR BOTTOMS at U.S. ports are contaminated by toxic chemicals, which makes the safe disposal

With the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund beginning next week,

Saturn was a grand experiment, a major innovation in automaking. But did GM executives really think

PROCUREMENT ISN'T FAA'S REAL PROBLEMI agree with most of your observations in "Bring

THE FIRST PRIVATELY FINANCED HIGHWAY in the United States this century opened for business Saturday

The Reagan administration, in its sunset years, had words for it. "Criminal," said Secretary

WHEN SEN. BILL ROTH succeeded Bob Packwood as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he had a clo

The advent of cross-border alliances is the most important change in the aviation industry in recent

GENERIC DRUG MAKERS WANT BIG WINDFALLYour article on legislative efforts to undermin

Cotton is king again in Congress. Not since Sunny Jim Eastland of Mississippi and other long

Echoes from the great savings and loan debacle of the 1980s still reverberate through the U.S. finan

SUSPECTED CRIMINALS in Russia may have found an innovative way to stay out of jail: Run for Parliame