Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At a Republican rally in Congress last week, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R- Ga., put his colleagues

Most government "solutions" fail because they are either flawed in theory or botched in practice.

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

ALTHOUGH CONGRESS has been decidedly squishy when it comes to axing agriculture programs, one of the

Americans buy automobile insurance to protect them against a major financial loss in the event of a

ERNEST & JULIO GALLO received $5 million from the federal government in 1993 to advertise their wine

As a result of the electoral upheaval last November, Washington in the middle of a turnaround. Estab

When I announced my candidacy for president in front of the Statue of Liberty, the pundits who criti

FIFTY YEARS AGO Congress told the government to sell cut-rate electricity to remote rural communitie

THE CAMPAIGN TO DEREGULATE Japan's throttled economy continues to gain momentum. The country's most