Commentary

US FISHING RULES CAUSE TRADE CHAOSYour article, "U.S. Seen Ignoring Call for Dolphin Law Cha

IF REP. DAN ROSTENKOWSKI'S indictment on corruption charges has a silver lining, it's the boost it g

WORKPLACE INJURIES are serious business, and the rules for compensating employees aren't always fair

In less than two months, there has been a remarkable change in America's public posture toward Japan

Summer is coming, and President Clinton is basking in the warm glow of an expanding economy.The Comm

WAGE CUTS AND OCEAN SHIPPINGIn recent years, the world market has been flooded with seafarer

THE URUGUAY ROUND world trade agreement, which ran a seven-year gauntlet of global politics and prot

MAKING RAILWAY BARGAINING EFFECTIVEYour May 16 editorial, "Railroad Wrangling" (Page

AMERICA'S SPY AGENCIES could use a crash course in the realities of the information age. Desperate t

The European Union is facing a growing revolt within its ranks that threatens to escalate into a ful

IF ENGLAND AND FRANCE can be connected by a Chunnel, why not Russia and the United States? A

The future of aviation in the Western Hemisphere will depend in large part on our ability to address

Even as it weathers a series of controversies, the new private pension system in Argentina is slowly

The Clinton administration is trying to inject labor issues into the new World Trade Organization, t

NUCLEAR POWER has long since fallen out of favor in the United States, where no new reactors have be

Now that bioengineered tomatoes have sprung from the mating of industry and science, the real questi

AFTER MONTHS of shouting and pouting, Washington and Tokyo finally have agreed to start discussing t

WEAK DEFENSE OF US ANTI-DUMPING LAWSThe "defense" of our anti-dumping law written by

THERE'S A LOT TO BE SAID for giving students a practical education, but an elementary schoolteacher

In the next four months, about 25 million Americans will get a lesson in environmentalism,and they w

The Clinton administration previewed this week its drive for congressional approval this year of the

The Federal Reserve's decision to end its easy money policy has provoked a chorus of misleading comp

By June 3, President Clinton and Congress will make a decision concerning China's most-favored-natio

THE UNITED STATES and the European Union have restarted worldwide talks aimed at curbing subsidies t

EUROPEAN GOVERNMENTS are finally cracking down on their telecommunications monopolies. The German go

Greetings from the capital of Europe, the economic basket case of the world. Oh, it's terrib

"BRAND X" does not exist in Czechoslovakia - at least not in television ads. A Prague court

SHIP SAFETY REGULATORS are finally learning that embarrassing publicity can be a powerful tool for b

As any American who has flown within Europe knows, air transportation inside the European Union is n

The United States and the international community have a spectacular opportunity to harness industri

In his recent opinion article, A. James Barnes, a former deputy administrator of the Environmental P

The House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee and its Merchant Marine subcommittee will meet thi

BILL CLINTON'S CHINA CLOCK is rapidly winding down. The president has less than two weeks to decide

If there is one thing the federal government has a proven ability to do, it is to launch massive new

Financial markets have been spooked for most of the year. A strong recovery plus a series oftighteni

The agenda for a conference here this month on trade and investment in the countries that once were

NATIONAL STATISTICS like gross domestic product - the nation's total output of goods and services -

Recent evidence suggests that federal jobs data have understated the true strength of labor markets

HOW CANADIAN GRAIN IS SUBSIDIZEDBecause you referred to me in your April 28 editorial, I wou

CROSS-BORDER CORPORATE ALLIANCES expanded dramatically in the 1980s, and they should continue to flo