Commentary

The first priority of the new South African government will surely be to establish civil order. Whil

The Federal Reserve intensified its squeeze on financial markets in April. Total bank reserves decli

The headlines hardly told the full story when Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol Br

ENVIRONMENT AGENCY IS WELL MANAGEDAs the chief U.S. negotiator for the Global Environment Fa

IT'S HARD TO FIND ANY WINNERS in the just-ended Teamsters trucking strike. The freight companies tha

THE REMARKABLE, MOSTLY PEACEFUL transfer of power from white to black South Africans is wellunder wa

Imagine a community of nearly 350 million people where decisions are made centrallyon a wide range o

Even with five months left in this congressional session, the calendar is becoming a big factor in t

CUTTING THE DEFICIT, a major preoccupation on Capitol Hill only a year ago, has all but disappeared

While Washington is stuck on the idea of pouring more taxpayer dollars into failing public schools,

AIR FRANCE gets plenty of help from its owner, the French government, but that aid won't extend to s

America's dismal trade figures this year are deceiving. They simply show that the U.S. economy has r

America won the Cold War thanks largely to the broad bipartisan consensus on the need to keep the So

"This is also, you know, a coffeehouse," said the bald fellow at the bar. The bartender nodd

The pace of negotiations to merge the eastern networks of CP Rail System and CN North America is pic

NEWT GINGRICH has lobbed a grenade into the GATT trade debate. The House Minority Whip, who

CANADIAN GRAIN is pouring into the United States, and American wheat farmers are up in arms. As with

So whom to believe when it comes to grading the world economy? The ministers of state, the chief of

From a competitive point of view, the good news for the American aircraft industry is that a team of

The Clinton administration's inconsistent approach toward Bosnia has triggered an outpouring of angr

U.S. COMPANIES love America's anti-dumping laws, not because there's much dumping going on but becau

Fidel Velazquez Sanchez, the redoubtable leader of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM), just

FORTY-SIX YEARS of white domination has left most South African blacks with the worst of everything.

I am astounded at the spin that Japanese officials have put on the failure of trade talks with the U

The main theme of modern, politically correct America is fairness. The cheerleaders for schemes to s

TAXPAYERS, who support a vast army of federal employees, can consider this as they trudge to work to

At one time, a duel at 30 paces was the preferred method of dispute resolution. The result was speed

European port authorities and shipping lines are in a head-to-head fight with highly sophisticated a

IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG for the second government of Japan's eight-month-old ruling coalition to begin t

PRICE-FIXING IN THE SHIPPING INDUSTRYYour April 20 editorial, "Pricing Insurance" (Page 6A),

SHIPPING LINES traditionally viewed ocean trading lanes as a one-way affair. Hence, the conferences,

COMMON SENSE has taken a bath in Los Angeles, where a nightclub was ordered to shut down its main at

THE CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY often used legitimate companies to hide its clandestine Cold War ope

From Feb. 3 to April 18 this year, the Dow-Jones index fell by 358 points and the yield on 30-year T

Palestinian and Israeli negotiators began another round of peace talks in Cairo last week, under the

THE YEARS-LONG QUEST by the United States and other major steel exporting nations for a multilateral

As the saying goes, "If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, it's a duck.

The phrase "labor protection" invokes visions of somehow protecting hard- working men and women from

DAN ROSTENKOWSKI, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, exposed one of the government'

Twenty years ago, it was anathema in the environmental movement to consider economics when debating