Commentary

MONOPOLY HAS ITS PRIVILEGES. It also has responsibilities, as the Postal RateCommission remi

On a trip to Vietnam last month, an associate and I had dinner our first night at Le Beaulieu, an el

Eight years ago, Intel Japan K.K. President William O. Howe was on a sales call in Nagoya trying to

The vast, ponderous machinery of federal spending ground to a halt this summer for the first time in

FOR A HINT of things to come in the U.S. Social Security system, consider new pension laws enacted l

The environmental and labor side agreements to the North American free-trade agreement should be ana

GIVE AL GORE CREDIT. The vice president's government reform commission could have been another timid

ROMANIA DESERVES MFN STATUS NOWMilan Ruzicka's recent arguments against granting most-favore

The French Mediterranean city of Marseilles is making headlines this summer for all the wrong reason

U.S. COMPUTER AND SEMICONDUCTOR companies got a small break last week from the Commerce Department.

IS MEXICO'S LIMITED DEMOCRACY reason enough to hold up the North American free-trade agreement?<

The debate on China policy is likely to grow as the two sides - those who emphasize human rights and

The search for ways to reduce government's cost and scope, which prompted the recent shouting over m

Keep it simple, stupid. That brutally frank directive is good advice in any number of situat

Russia's successful transformation into a stable democracy and free-market economy is essential to w

Since the West Bank and Gaza were sealed off from Israel after a series of stabbings by Palestinians

Aviation experts are nearing consensus that the air traffic control system needs to be removed from

IS THERE ANYONE who's really pleased with cable television? Rates keep rising, service is spotty and

FORMULATING A CHINA POLICY is never simple. On Wednesday, the Clinton administration imposed limited

The conversation came near the end of this summer's vacation at the beach, on a day given over to si

REOPENING THE MARITIME DEBATEI applaud publisher Don Becker's comments ("Publisher's

U.S. POLITICIANS are quick to complain of Japanese trade practices, but it's worth remembering that

After two rounds of storming the European Community's monetary Bastille - its system of fixed but ad

FEW BUSINESSES depend more on efficient government services than airlines. Pilots require Federal Av

The rapid opening of Mexico's national oil giant, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), to the outside world

For much of this spring and summer, a private argument raged around President Clinton that had all t

BILL CLINTON traveled to the Silicon Valley in February to pledge his personal support for U.S. high

On orders from the Clinton administration, the Federal Reserve dumped large amounts of Japanese yen

HAVE YOU EVER MARVELED at the amazing staying power of special interest handouts such as the mohair

IT'S TIME TO LIFT the U.S. trade embargoes against Vietnam and Cuba. Embargoes are imposed to protec

"The Broken Window Fallacy" is unknown to most logicians, but to American free marketeers it sums up

A MERCHANT MARINE REQUIRES UPKEEPI am tired of the misrepresentations made by some of your r

It is a damp October afternoon in Bonn and after a glass of wine, or perhaps two, the dapper German

Al From, head of the Democratic Leadership Council since its founding and a campaign adviser to both

During last year's presidential campaign, Bill Clinton and Al Gore spoke frequently of the need to c

COFFEE AGREEMENT ISN'T HARMFULYour Aug. 16 editorial, "Hill of Beans" (Page 8A), contends th

SOME RECOVERY. The 1990-1991 recession ended officially in March, 1991 but there's been prec

EVERYONE AGREES it will be costly to extend health coverage to 35 million uninsured Americans; even

POLAND'S 1990 BIG BANG launched an economic renaissance. Today, a market economy has taken root and

GENTILITY knows no bounds of nationality, as the British Tea Council evidently concluded this week.