Commentary

THE HOUSE Republican plan for cutting the budget is controversial, but both parties should be able t

FOR AN EXAMPLE of how the nation's legal system has run amok, consider this: O.J. Simpson attorney J

For the poor, for minorities, for our inner-city communities, our country's civil justice system is

There was something for everyone in the double-barreled action U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kant

The best advice for potential investors in China has been "be cautious" and ''go slowly" even though

NO ONE HAS FOUGHT HARDER for stronger world trade rules than the United States. Now Washington is us

Like a nip from the bottle or a dose of Prozac, a little inflation makes us all feel better. Profits

A new alarm about global warming has been sounded by the International Energy Agency. Unless there a

FULL SPEED AHEAD FOR FREE TRADEWe are puzzled by a statement in Richard Lawrence's r

For the Peninsular & Oriental Steamship Navigation Co., World War II started not on Sept. 3, 1939, w

CANADIANS have always considered railroads part of the national patrimony, a way of connecting a far

MEXICO UNFAIRLY HIT FOR FARMERS' WOESYour May 1 article, "Low-Cost Mexican Tomatoes

As America turns to the 1996 presidential election, Mexicans may find new truth in the oldsaying, "p

President Clinton should move cautiously in making his third appointment to the Federal Reserve Boar

NO COUNTRY suffered more than Russia during the Second World War. Russians old enough to remember th

FRENCH VOTERS, fed up with spiraling unemployment, have opted for change, electing JacquesChirac as

British Conservative governments of the past 16 years have made a high art of privatization. No publ

THE HIGHER MATH OF TAX PREPARATIONWhere is all the whining coming from over the "one

Europe's frontier-free system is breaking down barely six weeks after seven countries abolished inte

When President Clinton arrives in Moscow to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War I

FOR MORE THAN TWO YEARS, the Clinton administration has been pushing Japan to accept numerical targe

FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY a war that had involved almost every sovereign state on earth ended. It wasn't

It's the Washington equivalent of going behind enemy lines. John Lillie, chairman of America

Travel Ports of America, a company that owns truck stops, acquired in 1988 an option on a site on In

"Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax the fellow behind the tree. And tax the hell out of him."

AIRLINE DEREGULATION IN EUROPE has set off a rush of acquisitions and alliances. The latest deal has

NO SAFETY PROBLEMS AT PANAMA CANALWe were disappointed by your one-sided article, "P

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S premier technology project is on the ropes. Adraft report by a

Like most crises, the sudden fall of the Mexican peso wasn't entirely unpredictable. More than likel

Most Americans over 30 remember, sadly, what it's like. A great industrial power, an export

Last July, against the background of a rising cry that "50 years is enough," President Clinton and t

BANANAS, an economic mainstay of many developing nations, are at the heart of the most inane trans-A

The Clinton administration has said it sees no obstacles to the quick conclusion of a free trade agr

The International Monetary Fund has just approved a $6.8 billion loan to Russia and has promised Mex

The Japanese yen has wandered off into a never-never land, out of touch with economic reality. At th

BILL CLINTON and congressional leaders are playing politics with Medicare, the huge health-care plan

It's a hot muggy Sunday afternoon in Singapore and the Orchard Road Shopping District is crowded wit

LUFTHANSA, Germany's formerly state-owned airline, is thriving as a private company, according to Tr

IN THE WAKE of the Oklahoma bombing, tough government action against terrorists strikes a responsive

Your recent editorial, "Military Lift" (April 24, Page 8A), examined proposals to provide the U.S. A