Commentary

TELEPHONE CUSTOMERS around the world may soon see international calling rates begin to fall.

Russian President Boris Yeltsin will address top leaders of American business in New York today and

HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER Richard Gephardt deserves credit for being an early and consistent supporter o

Trying to make the most of this December's Summit of the Americas, the Treasury Department isreporte

Irony, which emerges often enough to sustain the suspicion that there is order in the cosmos, just d

Three policies are being pursued this year to revitalize the U.S. maritime industry. One is an expan

MARITIME REFORM IS FOUNDERING in the Senate. What began in March as an attempt to approve new ship s

"Don't even count on Social Security being there when you retire." This is the glib message being gi

WHEN BORIS YELTSIN visits Washington next week to meet with President Clinton, he will be looking fo

WHO ARE MARITIME 'SPECIAL INTERESTS'?Richard L. Hill asserts that if pending maritime legisl

President Clinton is rumored to be considering a middle-class tax cut in the form of a $300child cre

Trade negotiators are meeting in Washington this week in a final bid to resolve one of themost bizar

"Now that the U.S. marshal has brought law and order to Dodge City, it is important that the United

With health care and legislation to ratify the Uruguay Round currently dominating the publicagenda,

One year ago Thursday, the nation was gripped by a transportation tragedy. In the early morning hour

IN THE SPRINT to ratify a historic world trade agreement before Congress adjourns for the year, the

Wall Street appears increasingly vulnerable to signals of impending inflationary pressure. Stocks, b

It is a curious fact of international institutions that top posts are assigned under a bizarre quota

WHATEVER THE OUTCOME of President Clinton's military adventure in Haiti, this much is certain: Witho

The great New England poet Robert Frost got it almost right. Eighty years ago, in the poem "Mending

RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS are daunting, but signs of life are everywhere. The latest comes from the

It has been said that politics is the art of the possible, and, also, that all politics islocal. Wit

AMERICA'S ANTITRUST COPS have been pounding a global beat this year. In the last three months, the J

MAKING AMTRAK MORE PRODUCTIVEYour Amtrak editorial ("Running a Railroad," Sept. 14) did not

Whatever the merits of his case, Douglas Hart deserves gratitude, and not justbecause he cha

White House planning for the December summit of Western Hemisphere leaders has been further set back

The Fifty Years Is Enough Campaign is not planning to disrupt the 50th anniversary celebrations of t

HEALTH INSURANCE: CONSIDER THE CUSTOMERThere is a fundamental inequality in the current syst

THE GREAT ETHANOL RUSE, EPA's plan to force refiners to mix ethanol in gasoline, may be unraveling.

The Clinton administration has decided to omit "fast track" negotiating authority from its legislati

All too seldom Congress rises to the occasion, puts gridlock aside and members of both parties find

ALASKA OIL SHOULDN'T BE EXPORTEDYour Sept. 9 opinion page article, "Lifting Alaska's Oil Exp

Opinion polls consistently show that Americans are cynical toward government. Too often, such cynici

We're No. 1 again, no longer playing second (or worse) fiddle to Japan. It took nearly a decade to b

WITH THE NEW WORLD TRADE PACT under assault in some countries, it may seem an odd time to push for e

It was a wonderful vacation if you like public humiliation, stress, 6 a.m. wake-up calls, long bus r

Wall Street was shocked by the surge in wholesale prices in August. Stocks, bonds and the dollar all

Each year, the Internal Revenue Service reports that a small number of high- income earners(over $20

AMTRAK, the nation's passenger railroad, will receive a record $1.1 billion in federal subsidies nex

MTBE IS A SAFE GASOLINE ADDITIVEYour informative article on the continued efforts of some et