Commentary

IMAGINE THE REACTION if General Motors stopped selling Chevrolets and focused only on newer name-pla

If free trade confers so many benefits, why is economic nationalism reviving in popularity among ave

The gray, 12-story stone building in eastern Berlin is now partly deserted, if we don't count the gh

It was the July 1994 Naples economic summit and U.S. officials were trying to head off growing globa

During the past two years, U.S. airlines have been exempt from federal excise taxes collected on the

THE FEDERAL SUPERFUND PROGRAM, intended to clean up hazardous waste sites around the country, has be

RISING CRIME is the dark side of Russia's economic reforms, but growing lawlessness is not confined

In this era of downsizing, re-engineering and otherwise making corporate America lean and mean, inqu

THE NEXT TIME a government pleads poverty, consider this: In 1993, the latest year for which figures

MULTI-PERIL CROP COVER MAKES SENSEThe Aug. 10 opinion article by Barry Goodwin and V

The Clinton administration has served notice that its efforts to use U.S. trade law as a lever to op

In order to bring less complexity, lower compliance costs and greater fairness to the U.S. tax syste

JAPAN'S GIANT BANKS, once a symbol of the country's economic might, are scrambling to keep their hea

The world economy has started to slow. Except in the United States, there are few signs of an impend

On Aug. 8, Thomas A. Constantine, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, delivered a

BOB DOLE wasn't the only politician to get a rude awakening in a regional vote last weekend. In Russ

There's a danger that next month's United Nations Conference on Women in Beijing will focus on the p

WHEN IS A FEDERAL LEVY a tax and when is it a user fee? And from the payer's point of view, does it

THE MANY RISKS OF NUCLEAR ENERGYJack Edlow simply parrots, albeit more forcefully, t

Unless there's some rain across Britain fairly soon, the government could find itself in hot water o

THE AFL-CIO has taken time out from its internal power struggles to blast 26 U.S. lawmakers as foes

Federally funded science programs are on the chopping block in Washington. They shouldn't be. Of cou

BOB DOLE'S UNBRIDLED POLITICAL AMBITION has become the greatest barrier to expanding the North Ameri

DISASTER COVERAGE: THE REAL SOLUTIONIt is gratifying to see that you recognize the s

For at least a year, Sen. J. James Exon has talked about creating a "surf and turf" agency that woul

When people think of pictures, I'm gratified to note that most people in the world think of Kodak.

THIS SUMMER'S tourism marketing prize goes to Andrea Guglieri, mayor of a small town on the Italian

"GENTLEMEN do not read each other's mail," said Henry Stimson, who as secretary of state in 1929 clo

RELENTLESS HEAT WAVES this summer have prompted some electric utilities to appeal for energy conserv

DRUNK DRIVING has been a major cause of highway deaths for years, prompting federal and state govern

The question, "Why not treat Cuba just the same as Vietnam and China?" has been gathering momentum f

Should the United States end foreign aid? That's one of the big questions being asked in Washington.

JAPAN HAS RIGHTS TO SUNKEN SUBYour Aug. 10 article, "Gold Aboard Sunken Japanese Sub

DON'T DISCOUNT ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAYIra Rosenfeld's comments on the "failure" of the S

The recent murder of two prominent Russian bankers, Ivan Kivelidi, chairman of Russia's leading busi

BRAZIL, it has been said, has a great future - and always will. That fatalistic assessment o

A funny thing happened on the way out of the forum. The forum: the Foreign Correspondents Cl

PRESIDENT CLINTON thought he could isolate Iran commercially when he banned U.S. trade with that cou

U.S. FARM POLICY is a jumble of costly subsidies and wasteful land set-asides, a point agricultural

WHISKEY IS FOR DRINKING, Mark Twain once said, and water is for fighting. He was referring to the th