Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Intergovernmental Conference that will shape the future of the European Union is two years away,

WITH NO COMPROMISE in sight on extending President Clinton's trade negotiating authority, itis worth

A little less than a year ago, the North American Free Trade Agreement seemed consigned tofailure, c

IMAGINE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT charging a user fee to file income taxes and ''use" the services of t

THE WORLD BANK and the International Monetary Fund, created at the close of World War II tostabilize

Post-communist history has been a sad chronicle of economic failures, ethnic wars and political uphe

For a while there, it looked as if the U.S. government's concern with the latest wave of Cuban boat

Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas won headlines with his recent call for postponing a vote

The rate of absorption of clever but awful technologies into our economy and culture is difficult to

THE UNITED STATES CANNOT BE INDIFFERENT to important events in Canada, its chief trading partner. Th

Editor's note: America's 21-year-old ban on exporting Alaskan oil has been the subject of renewed in

The day that interstate bank branching proponents have hoped for - and opponents have dreaded - is a

The Clinton administration is headed for a showdown with Japan and other nations on Sept. 30 when it

Once the world's most important textile crop, hemp was banned in the late 1930s because smoking its

SENATE REPUBLICANS have become co-conspirators in the attack on the trade bill. Sen. Minority Leader

When Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed their peace declaration last September,

GOVERNMENTS limit the number of airlines that can fly between pairs of countries, but airlines incre

TRACTOR-TRAILERS require considerably more driving skill than small delivery vans, a fact Congress r