Commentary

While congressional debate began this week on plans to balance the federal budget by 2002, the searc

AMERICA'S out-of-control legal system has claimed another casualty: Dow Corning, maker of silicone g

U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor wants to slap new tariffs on $5.9 billion worth of Japanese

Argentine President Carlos Menem's triumph in last Sunday's elections is a victory for free market i

Just as uncertainty shrouds the future of AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, rumors abound in union ci

It's the "O.J." of international trade. No DNA, but there's WTO and numbers like 301 and 23.

REINVENTING GOVERNMENT, the Clinton administration's campaign to make Washington work better, has a

PEACE, it seems, pays. Northern Ireland's cease-fire, which has been in place for eight months now,

US SHOULD PRESERVE WORLD BANK FUNDINGYou reported recently that Congress may try to

THE MOST IMPORTANT JOB of any Congress is to balance the nation's books and spend the public's money

HAVING FAILED to bully Japan into accepting numerical quotas in automotive trade, the Clinton admini

The murderous explosion in Oklahoma City last month has revived the public clamor for legislation to

We are entering the season for high level international economic strategy. Ministers of the Organiza

Once again, the Clinton administration has marched to the brink of a trade war with Japan. This has

An air of expectation hangs over France this week as Socialist President Francois Mitterrand prepare

Ten years ago American companies and industries were losing global market share. Foreign products we

The Clinton administration's decision to sharply escalate the U.S.-Japan auto dispute reflects pre-e

KEEPING MAJOR ROADS in good repair is one of the few things Democrats and Republicans in Congress ca

As any politician knows, outright federal subsidies aren't the only way to please business constitue

ELDERLY AMERICANS are the biggest beneficiaries of government programs, receiving more than a third

The National Highway System wasn't supposed to be another Interstate Highway System with new ribbons

Even though last week's Russian-American summit in Moscow did little to resolve problems between the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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