Commentary

IT WAS A MASTERFUL political performance. President Clinton's health-care address to Congres

During the past month, debate over the North American free-trade agreement has shifted from its pote

When Congress repeals economic sanctions against South Africa in answer to the call today by the Afr

The city behind the federal facade here, like most big cities, is looking for revenue. Unlik

FOR DECADES, Americans have wrestled with the paradox of pesticides. The bug- killing chemicals assu

BORIS YELTSIN'S gutsy decision to dissolve Russia's parliament and call early elections gives his be

AMONG THE MASSIVE COSTS of the health care reform plan President Clinton outlined last night are som

Railroads advanced the growth and prosperity of our nation by extending trade - free trade. Railroad

It's the money, stupid. After weeks of leaks - many of them trial balloons quickly shot down

MINE WORKERS WERE NOT BAILED OUTYour Sept. 16 article, "Teamster Infighting Puts Uni

ANOTHER DAY, another fragile compromise. After 12 hours of talks, European Community governm

President Clinton cited the benefits of deficit reduction in lowering interest rates, raising invest

Rhetoric in the Clinton White House is jobs, jobs, jobs. However, many, perhaps most, of its policie

Japanese industry howling about the yen's 11 percent surge since February is like the monkey who put

GOVERNMENT HAS A HABIT of needless meddling. Take Southern California's Alameda Corridor, the nation

MARAD LETTER DEPARTED FROM FACTI can only ascribe the Sept. 14 letter of Joan B. Yim, acting

CLINTON ADMINISTRATION efforts to convince Japan to agree to numerical targets for U.S. imports aren

OFFICIALLY, the health-care debate kicks off this week with President Clinton's address to Congress

The European Community Commission has never had a president the caliber of Jacques Delors. B

Any plan for reforming U.S. health care should be judged by how well it meets two goals: universal c

IT'S NO EXAGGERATION to say that the European Community's foreign, trade and farm ministers hold the

CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES have the world's largest trading relationship, so anything that makes i

Prospects may be improving for a multilateral steel trade pact. Leon Brittan, the European C

The appointment of the experienced, able governor of the Bank of France, Jacques de Larosiere, as th

In his recent, eloquent article in The Journal of Commerce, Tom Fiedler acknowledged the internal co

President Clinton moved the North American free-trade agreement (Nafta) to the top of the political

FREIGHT SHIPPERS won another legal victory this week in their decade-long fight against bogus bill c

IF YOU CAN'T MANAGE your own affairs, it's poor practice to tell others how to manage theirs. Yet th

Panama is about to undertake a major land-planning project for the former Canal Zone that can lead t

Regardless of the outcome, there is about to be an interesting debate over whether it is a good idea

NEW APPROACH TO NAFTAWhile the controversy over the North American free-trade agreement cont

IF THE ROAD TO HELL is paved with good intentions, consider what might happen to a new Palestinian s

THERE'S NO LIMIT to the marketing creativity - and downright silliness - of some companies. To wit,

Johan Joergen Holst, Norway's foreign minister, is getting international huzzahs for brokering this

This article is excerpted from a Congressional Budget Office report on the outlook for the economy a

The historic Israeli-Palestinian rapprochement opens the door to a dynamic peace-building process in

Last weekend, members of the Shadow Open Market Committee gathered in Washington. The committee is a

IF BILL CLINTON'S commitment to freer trade was in doubt, it should be no longer. His ringing endors

PRESIDENT CLINTON can hardly be accused of moving too quickly to normalize relations with Vietnam.

In the early 1960s, as a young reporter Makiko Arima was assigned to cover the police and court beat