Commentary

INSURANCE COMPANIES have an unsentimental response to the problem of domestic violence. Many insurer

AFTER NEARLY THREE MONTHS of turmoil, no one should feel confident predicting Mexico's economic futu

Mexico's devastating financial crisis seems to have no end in sight. The Zedillo administration's fa

House Republicans soon may sink to a new low - roughly knee level. In order to revive the pr

THE DOLLAR'S STUNNING FALL slowed a bit on Wednesday, but not nearly enough to hide the long-term tr

Some of the red-hot new Republican members of Congress are stumbling onto an uncomfortable fact: The

"Don't worry, be happy." That's what the usual suspects are once again advising Americans in light o

EUROPEAN AVIATION is at war with itself. Washington's offer to negotiate ''open skies" deals with th

WHILE GOVERNMENTS DITHER about ways to promote and expand the global ''information superhighway," pr

The U.S. Embassy sits majestically under shady oaks overlooking a corner of the Place de la Concorde

The 1980s - a daffy, dizzying, daunting decade, replete with mind-boggling phenomena, shocking surpr

FOR AT LEAST 15 YEARS, manufacturers and insurance companies have pushed Congress to reform the nati

As they left the floor of the House of Representatives last June, members were accosted by an ex-con

Ted Turner should shift his camera crews from Los Angeles to Mexico City. Obedient to viewers' taste

Investors should brace themselves for new, more serious problems in Mexico. The nearly $50 billion a

The dust is beginning to settle from the recent Franco-American spy caper, and it is becoming easier

THE FRENCH CRUSADE to protect the language of Racine and Moliere from Anglo- Saxon incursion has cla

The Republican takeover of Congress raised hopes that meaningful telecommunications reform would pas

THE CASE FOR KEEPING THE FMCI am an employee of the Federal Maritime Commission. As

MEXICO'S ECONOMIC troubles have taken a back seat in the national press to a surreal political drama

Canada recently made one of the strangest requests U.S. trade officials can ever remember. C

EUROPE'S RECESSION IS OFFICIALLY OVER, but its unemployment problem lingers on. Last week, E

COME ON GUYS, GET A LIFE I don't know about your other readers, but I was amazed by both the

THIS JUST IN from the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace: a color brochure advertising an impressi

Congress has tried and failed twice in recent years to rewrite the Export Administration Act, the la

AMERICANS TALK about balancing the budget; Canadians are actually trying to do it. Canada's new budg

MICKEY KANTOR, America's trade representative, will go to Beijing soon to sign the landmark anti-pir

There is plenty about the balanced budget requirement that is objectionable, but the most irksome fe

Just before 7 o'clock on a recent morning in February, passengers paying topdollar to ride A

Since its inception, Medicare has been valuable and popular, and has served the medical needs of the

Everybody hates government. If we didn't know that before, we know it now, thanks to the recent elec

WASHINGTON'S BITTER FIGHT over the balanced budget amendment has obscured an important fact: Never h

TRAVEL AGENTS FIGHT BACKYou are right when you say that by filing lawsuits and complaining t

RARELY HAS ANYONE fallen from grace faster than Carlos Salinas. Mexico's former president was still

Now that Washington's financial aid package for Mexico finally has been completed, what is ahead for

The fiscal relationship between the national government and the 50 states is garnering more attentio

It's 10 a.m. on a Saturday morning but this muckraking journalist isn't thinking about scoops. He's

IT WAS MERELY A COINCIDENCE that Barings, the venerable British investment bank, collapsed in a deri

ORION: GETTING THE NAMES STRAIGHTI was dismayed by the headline on your Feb. 23 arti

The fiscal relationship between the national government and the 50 states is garnering more attentio