Commentary

With the debate over federal spending likely to continue raging in Congress, some spending cuts that

CONTROLLING POLLUTION is nothing new; preventing it is. That's what the printing industry, Great Lak

TO ITS CREDIT, the Clinton administration is renewing efforts to charge Western ranchers fairer rate

The U.S. economy stands at a great divide. For 20 years, roughly 1970 to 1990, America enjoyed job g

British Prime Minister John Major has enjoyed a brief respite over the past week as his beleaguered

Latin American and Caribbean airlines are up in arms as U.S. airlines add capacity between their cou

P&I CLUB INSURANCE SYSTEM WORKS WELLYour August 3rd editorial, "Making Spillers Pay"

FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY AND A HALF, the strife-torn states of Central America have talked of forming

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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