Commentary

Following recent trends, the Supreme Court's labor docket in the just-opened session is light. As th

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

The Western democracies may have "won" the ideological struggle with aggressive communism that domin

WASHINGTON may soon start to ease controls on exports of high-powered computers, a move that is long

THE LOWLY BANANA is getting some high-level attention in Washington. Last week U.S. Trade Representa

The World Bank's campaign for continued U.S. funding apparently has paid off. The U.S. Senate has ju

A CLOSER LOOK AT THE JONES ACTI read with great interest your Sept. 12 article, "Hog

SHIPPING LINES must be wondering if regulators in the Clinton administration are all reading from th

SEN. MITCH McConnell, R-Ky., models himself on the great lawmakers of the past. Based on a bill he r

DON'T WEAKEN NAFTA DISPUTE SETTLEMENTI wish to respond to the Sept. 8 opinion article, "Fix

U.S. trade officials insist that their South Korean counterparts remained convinced up to the deadli

As surely as baseball fans congregate each spring on Landsdowne Street behind Boston's Fenway Park o

If you did any boating this summer, you probably noticed the dark side of our attraction to the sea:

THE RECORD ON FRANK LORENZOYour Sept. 11 editorial, "The Lorenzo Inquisition" (Page

The budget debate ringing through the halls of Congress provides eloquent testimony of lawmakers' di

A YEAR after launching a loud campaign to force Japan to buy more U.S.-made cars and car parts, the

THREE BIG RAILROADS met in Omaha last week to carve up the freight-hauling business in the Western U

THE COMMERCE DEPT. AND COMPETITIVENESSI read with dismay your Sept. 22 editorial, "O

IGNORE NEWT GINGRICH'S threat to force the government into default. It won't happen. Forget, too, Bi

JAPAN'S finance ministry took an important step Wednesday to diffuse a problem that could easily get

President Ernesto Zedillo says the worst of Mexico's economic crisis is over. So where's the applaus

One of the most delightful essays in the English language is Charles Lamb's ''A Dissertation Upon Ro

The Clinton administration is busy congratulating itself for achieving a ''soft landing" in the econ

Colin L. Powell's autobiography, "My American Journey," is inspirational. Unsurprisingly, it has bec

CANADIAN OFFICIALS are turning up the heat on Quebec, whose citizens go to the polls for a secession

U.S. and Japanese officials meeting in Manhattan today are expected to renew what many in Japan see

THE HOUSE of Representatives has plenty to do, what with a national debt approaching $4.8 trillion,

ANOTHER KEY PIECE in America's expanding aviation network has fallen into place. The United States l

The most recent report on foreign exchange trading by the Bank for International Settlements shows t

INDONESIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSESEdward Masters downplays Indonesia's egregious human

The Suez and Panama canals had difficult, messy births, but today they are vital arteries of world t

COPYING and selling pirated cassettes, videos and other intellectual property is a thriving business

CONGRESS may not be showing much enthusiasm for trade issues, but on one important project it has st

INDIA HOPES TO BECOME an Asian Tiger, but clawing foreign investors isn't the way to do it. Last mon

Rivalry between two leading Republican presidential contenders - Sens. Robert Dole, Kan., and Phil G

International negotiators gathered last week in Geneva to further develop a system of global environ

DON'T USE HIGHWAY FUNDS FOR AMTRAKThe title of Rip Watson's Sept. 15 "Inside Talk" c

TIME AFTER TIME, Republicans are proving to be their own worst enemies. The House Agriculture Commit

As Congress struggles to reduce the budget deficit, skirmishes are breaking out in Washington over h

RON BROWN is no stranger to political combat, but his skills at trench warfare are being tested this