Commentary

The Clinton administration has promised to place more emphasis on respect for labor rights by U.S. t

Japan's opposition to U.S. calls for managed trade will be seen as mere Kabuki posturing unless Toky

With some 35 million people out of work in the industrialized nations, unemployment is widely consid

THE HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM is nothing if not complex, with a welter of payors, insurers and providers.

Yields on long-term Treasury bonds finally broke through the magic 6 percent barrier last week. The

PRESIDENT CLINTON held up a copy of Al Gore's "reinventing government" report Tuesday and twice said

NORTHEASTERN STATES are fighting a dirty battle over clean air. Several states in the region

The container shipping trades may soon be embroiled in a fresh fight with the European Commission am

UNDER PRESSURE from their government, Japanese companies are gradually dismantling their "keiretsu"

COFFEE PRODUCERS' PLAN IS FAIRYour Aug. 16 editorial, "Hill of Beans," (Page 8A) was

The Clinton administration proudly released its mid-session review of the fiscal year 1994federal bu

Peter Sutherland, the new director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, is casting

Two recent developments - AT&T's takeover of McCaw Cellular and a federal court ruling allowing Bell

WASHINGTON AND BEIJING are forever threatening to slam one another with trade sanctions. At the end

Bill Clinton's drive to tame health-care costs must contend with a perverse statistical omen fresh o

YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW IT from the daily traffic reports, but trucking has never been safer. Truck-rel

GERMAN CHANCELLOR Helmut Kohl's irresponsible support of French efforts to scrap a critical U.S.-Eur

NEEDED: A DEBATE ON MARITIME POLICYI'd like to congratulate Don Becker for his Aug. 18 "Publ

A battle is shaping up in the House over a Senate-passed measure that would require risk and cost an

William Bywater, president of the International Union of Electronic Electrical Salaried Machine & Fu

CALIFORNIA lawmakers are proposing a compromise in a decades-long dispute with Britain over the way

IT'S TWO STEPS FORWARD, one back, in drawn-out reconciliation efforts between China and Taiwan.<

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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