Commentary

The universal health care plan that Congress is now debating would create an enormous new federal en

IF HARD WORK PAYS, Americans should have a bright future. Americans work longer hours than p

Last December Jacques Delors, then president of the European Commission, issued a white paper on "Gr

IT'S TAKEN 13 MONTHS, but the United States and Japan finally have reached a partial agreement in th

SEAFARERS' HOUSING: A YMCA PROJECTWe appreciate your fine "On the Move" profile of the Rev.

DESPITE THREATS to its crime and health bills, the Clinton administration is steadily movingthe GATT

It is August in Europe. Across the continent shops and restaurants are shuttered. The street

The GATT world trade agreement now before Congress is a remarkably strong document, the product of e

CHALK UP another victory for the bureaucracy. The French government has denied five aging Americans

The halcyon 1950s are alive and well at Japan's spick- and-span gas stations. Any American o

A bill providing new maritime operating subsidies for some U.S.-flag ships is running into more oppo

It is a common belief that U.S. service exports will offset the large and persistent U.S. merchandis

THE TOWN DUMP isn't what it used to be. Until the early 1980s, most household and businesswaste - pa

In the late 1980s, while interviewing a U.S. ambassador in Nicaragua at his office during the bloody

BIG CORPORATE MERGERS are all the rage, and railroads have joined the action. Three important rail d

WHERE HAS the Pepsi generation gone? Gone to Starbucks, every one - as Pepsi evidently has discovere

Paranoia is patrolling our borders, and U.S. politicians are keeping step. California Gov. P

The Journal of Commerce recently printed an opinion article by former ICC Commissioner Gregory Walde

A recent news story from the Associated Press suggests that disillusionment is setting in inGaza and

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT transportation bills of the decade cleared Congress Monday withouta hitch.

CARTOON ON DOCTORS' INCOMES: NOT FUNNYI have never bothered to write to a publication before

In less than three years - on June 30, 1997 - Hong Kong, the unabashed capitalist enclave,will becom

In Japan, where group-based culture is so strong that even salesmen within a companyare paid the sam

Last Friday was a bad day on Wall Street. Stock and bond prices took a dive and interest rates rose

WINSTON LORD, the administration's Asia policy chief, restated America's ''staunch support"for admit

As the Haitian generals continue to block the return of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, democracy

AFRICA'S MISERIES seem endless. Horrifying reports of disease and starvation are becoming sadly comm

This city has lost its raison d'etre, as it has done every August for the past 35 years when the Eur

SLOWLY, PAINFULLY, Congress is moving ahead with a bill to implement the biggest trade deal in histo

When I first introduced the Employment Dispute Resolution Act in 1992, it was needed to ease the bur

THINK BIG ON FREE TRADE AGREEMENTSThe Yukon and Tierra del Fuego are the alpha and omega of

As Congress moves to take up revisions to the Export Administration Act - the law that is the basis

FOR A GOOD EXAMPLE of why so many nations distrust the United States, take a close look at the shipy

Why John Stocker resigned from the Shipbuilders Council of America has been the source of muchspecul

Formal debate on health care legislation will begin this week in Congress, where Senate and House De

PRESIDENT CLINTON talks a good game on free trade, and sometimes - as in the Nafta fight last year -

Unemployment has been increasing in Western Europe for 20 years. By 1993 more than 17 million people

Many Americans think of Washington, D.C., as a city of great monuments and marble places. Others may

CHINA CAN BE A DIFFICULT PLACE to do business, what with overt trade barriers, inconsistent commerci

VENEZUELA DEFENDS ITS ECONOMIC PLANYour July 28 article, "Venezuela's Economic Crisi