Commentary

FRUSTRATED BY THEIR OWN FAILURE to reform U.S. maritime policy, lawmakers have resorted toa kind of

DRINKING AND DRIVING is a dangerous practice, but some new facts from highway safety researchers sho

The Clinton administration might not send to Congress legislation implementing the North American fr

There's one American product that continues to expand its sales as the world's favorite ina market o

Just a year ago, the Mexican government announced plans to convert Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) from

Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary has introduced a welcome note of realism into the administration's en

THIRTEEN YEARS after trucking was largely deregulated, the Interstate CommerceCommission has

The $3 billion in Russian aid announced at the Tokyo economic summit last month is an important and

Bill Clinton has a flaw that certainly will come back to haunt him if he does not seek to correct it

GERMANY'S "green dot" recycling program is being overwhelmed by its own early success. In th

TIME TO SAVE US MERCHANT MARINEThe recent efforts of so many people in the maritime industry

THE COLLAPSE this week of the European Community's system of fixed but adjustable exchangerates is a

According to Rep. James A. Traficant Jr., D-Ohio, a new Labor Department jobs"dictionary" defines as

GOVERNMENT COMMISSIONS produce reports that are often ignored by policy- makers. But James Landry, w

With the deep financial troubles plaguing U.S. airlines, it seems implausible that the Department of

Is Ross Perot being honest about Nafta? Ross was one of my heroes, but his attacks on Nafta, the Nor

News organizations have been seized with a sudden nostalgia for the 1960s, unhappy as those years we

BILL CLINTON'S budget plan won't reduce the deficit by $496 billion during the next five years. Nor

IT'S GOING TO BE expensive, but the armed forces finally will clean up the soil and water pollution

For those who believe that the time has come to relax, if not eliminate, export controls on the sale

A STRONG-ARMED GOVERNMENT has created an economic miracle in Singapore buthasn't done much t

COMPANIES SHOULD CLEAN UP their own messes. That's the principle behind the U.S. Oil Pollution Act.

A BETTER WAY TO EVALUATE RECYCLINGChilton's July 13 article, "Recycling: What's the Real Cos

Should we feel sorry for our fellow Americans in the Midwest who have been flooded out of their home

Among the possible prescriptions for rescuing the European Community's Exchange Rate Mechanism, the

An interagency report on boosting U.S. trade with Russia and other cash- strapped former Soviet repu

IT'S ALWAYS DANGEROUS to predict sudden change in Japan, since policies thereshift slowly an

Can the National Commission to Ensure a Strong Competitive Airline industry find a comprehensive sol

DRENCHING RAINS have stopped in most of the Midwest, but the drama hasn't. Even as residentsin many

July's summit of industrialized nations may have been the most important in the 19-year history of t

The gossamer-like results of the economic summit in Tokyo earlier this month have been woven into a

BRITISH PRIME MINISTER John Major risked his political future last week to win parliamentary approva

Earlier this month, Justice Department officials opened a new chapter in U.S. trade law that could b

Should the United States impose human rights conditions on trade with China? More is at stake in thi

FACED WITH THE CHOICE of paying for Midwestern flood relief now or later, the House Tuesday did what

It was just a brief weekend report on local television news, saying that foreign embassies owed the

COURIERS COMPLY WITH CUSTOMS LAWYour May 26 editorial, "Customs Brokers" (Page 8A) and subse

BIG U.S. STEELMAKERS have been attacking imports for the last 25 years. In some cases, theirprotests

In his July 15 opinion article, Baruch Fellner cites the declining rate of workplace deaths as "comp

IN TRYING TO ACT more like a private business, the U.S. Postal Service sometimes forgets it's still