Commentary

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

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

Reducing the size of government is high on the Washington agenda these days. Voters say they don't l

CHINA'S PLEDGE to curb copyright piracy, wrung from Beijing Sunday after months of negotiations, is

Europe hosted a big party last weekend to celebrate the information age. The guests of honor were th

"Federico's Folly," decried the cover story of the conservative American Spectator, condemning the m

Somewhere in space, which I'm sure you know is a large area, there's a glove. It was dropped by an a

Transportation Department officials are planning to ease their restructuring plan past Congress in t

AMERICAN PRESIDENTS always tread carefully on their visits to Canada, and Bill Clinton was no except

OPPOSITION IN CONGRESS to creating a separate corporation to manage the nation's air trafficcontrol

Perhaps as much as other readers, I was surprised by your recent editorial fury over the fact that h

TRAVEL AGENTS HAVE DECLARED WAR on airlines, but this is a fight the agents aren't likely towin.

A FIRST SEA VOYAGE ABOARD A LYKES SHIPThe Feb. 15 Publisher's Notebook (Page 8A) on

FOR ALL OF BEIJING'S ECONOMIC MIGHT, reminders are everywhere that China is still an undeveloped nat

Mats Hellstroem, Sweden's foreign trade minister, was in town last week. Asked if Swedish carmakers

An amazing political juggling act is being performed on Russia's southern border by Geidar Aliyev.

BILL CLINTON, apostle of reinventing government, has been busier regulating the economy than any pre

You might think an idea that has the enthusiastic support of both President Clinton and House Speake

Transportation companies don't work together as often as they should, but they are speaking with a u

The day I met Maria Concepcion Robles de Villega - or Concha, as everyone calls her - I finally figu

CHINA'S LATEST TRADE DISPUTE with the United States comes to a head on Feb. 26, the deadline for an

ROMANIA: PROGRESS TOWARD FREEDOMWhen your newspaper reported on the debate over Roma

Inflation, a wise man once said, is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon. In a nutshell, this

The "American Dream" is in jeopardy. Part of the danger is self-imposed - Americans have sto

Budget cuts, including reductions of aid to key foreign countries such as Russia, should not oversha

If anyone thinks European nations are losing their identity as they are sucked deeper into a central

HEADLINE GAVE MISTAKEN IMPRESSIONYour Feb. 2 edition included a short announcement a

IS ENDLESS badgering under antitrust laws the price of commercial success? Not officially, but you w

The nation's economy may take a dive soon. Rising interest rates? Politics-as-usual in Washi

President Clinton's proposal for a border-crossing fee of $3 per vehicle would place a serious burde

Whatever the blame for Mexico's currency crisis, and whatever the merits of President Clinton's resc

HOMETOWN HIGHWAY PROJECTS, the source of so much congressional pork, may be exempted from the line-i

THE CLINTON administration's plan to convert the nation's air traffic control system into a governme

After more than 15 years of on and off talks, U.S. and Canadian officials are close to reaching a ne

THE RISING PRICE OF NEWSYour Page One headline on Jan. 10 announcing the sale of The Journal

Delivering the mail is important work. It's the way much of America communicates. People count on th

THREE YEARS into a large-scale program to support Russia's political and economic transformation, Co

A subtle shift in Federal Reserve policy has surfaced in recent weeks. After months of reducing the

SENATE DEMOCRATS have failed in their misguided attempt to exempt Social Security from thebalanced b