Commentary

With Americans concerned about murders, robberies, rapes and muggings, the government is busy lookin

Earlier this week, about 150 Republican members of Congress and 200 Republican challengers signed a

Action to remake the nation's health-care delivery system is ostensibly dead this year, given its la

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, fighting mightily to save the Uruguay Round trade agreement from defeat

The meetings this week between Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin demonstrate the incredible

FEAR OF FLYING grips millions of travelers every year, but as this week's European ferry accident pr

In the waning hours of the 103rd Congress, the Clinton administration is trying to rush through impl

PRESIDENT CLINTON, in another eleventh-hour save, is getting behind the Uruguay Round world trade pa

DISCRIMINATION against women in the workplace is nothing new, but among industrialized countries Jap

Financial markets are braced for a shock when, as now expected, the United States imposes trade sanc

SECRETS OF JAPAN'S BUSINESS SUCCESSThe titles of two articles in your Sept. 15 edition - "Be

HEALTH REFORM is dead for now, and many Americans are justifiably relieved. Toward the endof that ma

Next week the U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes to confront one of the simplest but most vexing employme

Next week, the gurus of international finance will gather at the Campo de las Naciones in Madrid for

CHINA AND TAIWAN, at odds with each other for the past 45 years, are gradually learning towork toget

The food stalls are a bit grimy, with grease embedded in the aluminum countertops. The bang of the s

WHAT A DIFFERENCE a year makes in Moscow. Last fall, a hostile Russian Parliament was plotting to sa

When President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin meet today for their third summit, U.S. i

This week brings a moment of truth for the Clinton administration's trade negotiators. They came int

WHAT WILL IMPROVE American education? It's not spending more money on schools, according to a study

British ferry companies have become so disturbed about the welfare of sheep, pigs and cattle shipped

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

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

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

If it were a deadly plague that is killing 3 million people a year, surely scientists would be mount

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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