Commentary

America's decision to torpedo the international trade talks on financial services is a striking demo

OPPONENTS of the Uruguay Round trade deal said it would be used to attack U.S. health and safety law

A SCARY TRIP ON A NUCLEAR SHIPI read with some amusement Yuichiro Matsuo's July 10 o

The leaders of the European Union have become cantankerous of late, caught up in unseemly, undiploma

EVEN BY WASHINGTON'S STANDARDS, the debate on curbing federal regulations is shameless. Overheated r

Federal health and safety agencies are supposed to be in the business of saving lives. But working f

PROPOSED CUTS IN U.S. FOREIGN AID produce anguished cries that America is abdicating its responsibil

THE WORLD'S MOST SWEEPING privatization program is taking off in, of all places, remote Bolivia, and

If you want to see the future of education, don't watch children in theaverage classroom. Wa

American presidents as different as Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon and Carter shared a common frustratio

Maritime industry lobbyists hope a hearing Tuesday before a House subcommittee sheds light on a Clin

The American idiom has taken the English language into a smoky back room and beaten it to within an

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT has thrown a wrench into the plans of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom to

In cyberspace the U.S. International Trade Commission claims to be "the government's think tank on i

IT IS NOTHING NEW for free traders to attack America's protectionist anti- dumping laws. But when th

The confluence of international trade and antitrust policies presents governments in the United Stat

NOT SO FAST WITH JABS AT AMTRAKIra Rosenfeld's July 5 "Straight Talk" column contain

According to the World Bank, developing countries will require an additional $7 trillion during the

U.S. SHIPPING LINES are facing deregulation, but it is America's seaports that are screaming loudest

MEXICO was supposed to be a land of opportunity after the North American Free Trade Agreement took e

U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor is fond of blaming "free trade purists" for undermining his

LAST WEEK'S RACKETEERING convictions of five former officers of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso

A wise man once claimed that the main activity of government was correcting its own mistakes. Plans

The new budget resolution approved by Congress "assumes" the Commerce Department will be dismantled.

The dream for many Britons is to move to France. And Provence, that fragrant land of waving lavender

FOR A TIME THIS SPRING, it seemed like promising plans to create a Free Trade Agreement of the Ameri

GLOBAL ALLIANCES among aircraft makers are sprouting like spring flowers. The latest one involves Se

With his job on the line, John Major proved himself to be a much tougher and shrewder politician tha

Few people can argue that, after 25 years and more than $1 trillion spent to improve the nation's ai

Imagine you're in business and your biggest and most reliable customer, a notorious free-spender, on

BILL CLINTON PROTESTED the Vietnam War as a student. Today, as president, he will end that chapter i

RUSSIA'S SAGGING ECONOMY is finally showing signs of life. This spring, for the first time since 198

Stopping Overweight ContainersYour June 2 editorial on overweight containers is seri

The recent voyage of the British-registered cargo ship Pacific Pintail from France to Japan marks a

Pacific shipping lines that carry most U.S.-Asia trade are taking steps to head off a major Federal

The U.S. merchant marine is fighting for its life. Faced with the prospect of the entire U.S. flag c

Established as a federal agency in 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority may play the key role in adv

RONALD REAGAN tried unsuccessfully to kill Amtrak during the 1980s. Today, two groups that would lik

In 1974, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries raised the price of crude oil from $3 a b

CUBA'S ECONOMY, in free-fall since 1989, is slowly coming back to life - no thanks to the United Sta