Commentary

Barge lobbyists are breathing a little easier in the new anti-tax climate here: Most don't expect th

FOR THE REPUBLICANS, the easy part is over. They have officially occupied the House of Representativ

Should $100 received courtesy of a lucky streak on Wall Street be taxed any differently from $100 th

Mexico's present crises are less a judgment on the leadership skills of its new president than on th

WHEN the Interstate Commerce Commission disappears later this year, its most important responsibilit

NUCLEAR SHIPMENTS RAISE SAFETY ISSUESAs the author of the study reviewing the safety

Caesars and generals returning to Imperial Rome following military triumphs assigned husky-voiced yo

The cost of processing and conveying information will consume a steadily growing fraction ofevery bu

WITH ALL THE INTEREST in new free trade agreements - in the Pacific Rim, in the Western Hemisphere a

IT'S NOT A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR in Mexico, where the government this week is launching an austerity p

The collapse of the Mexican peso caught almost everybody off guard. Initially, renewed political unr

The United Nations Environment Program is facing growing competition for the mantle of U.N. leadersh

Why bother flying off to the Caribbean, Guam or Wingo Dingo for your beach vacation when you could s

Ports play an essential role in the U.S. economy, defense and environment. They meet the demand for

PRESIDENT CLINTON and Republicans in Congress once again are on a collision course over U.S.trade po

Even as the European Union expands north into most of Scandinavia, it is suffering a crisis of confi

The more we listen to current commentaries on economic developments, the more we're remindedof the c

Last July, at the seven-power economic summit in Naples, President Clinton proposed something tentat

A SIMPLE QUESTION FOR SEN. GRASSLEYIn your Dec. 13 edition you quoted Sen. Charles G

After 25 years of communist rule, Vietnam is rapidly moving from the shadows of socialism and into t

AIRLINES HAVE A TALENT for marketing: frequent flyer programs, hotel vacation packages and fly-drive

SOME OF THE PRESSURE on Mexico's beleaguered currency eased this week on news of a possible internat

An idea for a new sales tax is spreading at the state level. Called the Advance Disposal Fee, it is

To: THE CHIEF. From: Chieflet, policy planning staff.Re: The economo-political reality.<

The recently concluded economic and trade Summit of the Americas was notable not only for who was, b

I suppose that after this piece another invitation to a sumptuous dinner at the splendidlyappointed

AIRLINE SERVICE between the United States and Canada is about to take off. After 20 years ofrestrict

SOME PEOPLE'S PLANS for the new year are truly bold. Consider Stuart Eunson, a 27-year-oldAmerican,

One of the persistent Clintonian themes of the 1994 campaign still endures: If ''it's the economy, s

Social Security is racing toward a cliff. The system is at war with itself. As the pool of s

TALKS BETWEEN the United States and Canada over tolls on the St. Lawrence Seaway are over - Canada l

WHO'S AFRAID of Bugs Bunny? Otherwise levelheaded adults in the Belgian government, who have been tr

Mr. Clinton's basic promise to the American people, as well as the central dilemma of his administra

Next year the United States celebrates the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. With that in

With a Democratic president facing a Republican Congress, and a presidential election on the horizon

HUMAN RIGHTS AND TRADE IN ROMANIAYour Nov. 18 article on human rights in Romania sug

The United States exports a variety of goods, ranging from apples to autos, hay cubes to heavy machi

CANADA'S DECISION to pull Country Music Television from the airwaves to help a competing domestic br

A CHEERFUL HOLIDAY MESSAGE comes this year from an unlikely source: the usually subdued economists a

The specter of a Canadian-style rout now faces the British government as the traditionally Tory-supp