Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The train marked "European Union" that rolled out of the Dutch city of Maastricht in a festive mood

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

A central pillar of President Clinton's economic program is to substantially boost spending on "inve

The U.S. government appears on the verge of substantially downsizing its commitment to foreign aid a

Domestic steel shipments rose 6.6 percent in the first five months of this year from a year earlier,

DON'T SLAM INSURERS UNDER OPA 90It is not true that a single claim under the Oil Pol

If the yen, rapidly rising since February, reaches an exchange rate of 100 yen to the dollar, Japane

THERE'S LITTLE DOUBT the federal government is managed in a way that quickly would put a private com

IN BETWEEN his budget fight with Congress and his health care pitch to the governors, President Clin

WITH BARELY A BREATHER after a head-battering budget battle, President Clinton has kicked off a pote

A basic law of modern science is that two wire coat hangers, left alone in a cool, dark closet, will

Journalists live in morbid fear that all hell will break loose as soon as they go on vacation or lea

Earlier this month, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari jetted to Chihuahua, Mexico, for Thursday an

Opponents of privatization are trying to persuade the Clinton administration to reverse a Bush admin

RESTORE REALISM TO MARITIME DEBATEWinn B. Frank, a transportation consultant, writes in a re

Sensing that it plays a strategically important role in the West's struggle to contain the war in Bo

BILL CLINTON'S SIDE DEALS to the North American free-trade agreement strike a sensible balance betwe

Former Maryland Gov. Harry Hughes is under consideration by the Clinton administration to fill a slo

In his campaign policy paper, "Putting People First," then-Gov. Bill Clinton vowed to pare the feder