Commentary

As Bill Clinton takes up residence in the Oval Office, his advisers are laboring over a plan to refo

Reforming U.S. trade policy is all the rage in Washington, but most of the talk ignores a crucial is

TWO OF BILL CLINTON'S senior economic advisers hinted last week at how the new president can keep hi

Our politicians' most valuable assets are their index fingers: They vigorously point them at themsel

It took Richard Nixon, a conservative Republican, to open the door to Red China. Perhaps Bill Clinto

FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES - bombers in Iraq, troops in Somalia and civil war in Bosnia - threaten Bill C

By this time, grumbling about the absurd length of the transition period between administrations has

STATE PILOTS ARE SAFE AND QUALIFIEDYour Dec. 18 article, "California Is Asked to Tig

Roads, tunnels, government offices, sewer systems . . . The Clinton administration is expect

SEAPORTS AND RAILROADS are angling for a share of the $120 billion in federal trust fund money Washi

Contemplate for a moment the reaction in the United States if the federal government decided the U.S

Among the Clinton administration's first foreign policy acts with respect to sub-Saharan Africa must

THERE'S NO MYSTERY to Japan's economic "miracle" of the 1980s, according to its labor federation.

NO ONE HAS YET DESIGNED a fail-safe oil tanker, and no one is likely to any time soon. When a ship b

Back in the early 1980s, before anyone in the Soviet Union had thought much about economic reform, a

Now we hear suddenly that Bill Clinton is shocked at the size of the federal budget deficit and is i

Candidate Bill Clinton repeatedly slammed Mr. Bush's economic failures with the aphorism: "Fooled on

"THE STATE OF MANAGEMENT in the federal government is not good." So begins a blunt assessment by the

St. Paul must be surprised to find himself in the middle of the debate over what the Clinton adminis

A PLAN FOR PRESERVING THE US FLEETYour Nov. 5th editorial ("Mr. Clinton's Challenges," Page

IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN how Russia's new prime minister, conservative Viktor Chernomyrdin, will manage

CANADA'S NATIONALIZED HEALTH INSURANCE is still a model for many Americans struggling with high medi

CHEMICAL WEAPONS have an appalling if shadowy history, from the skin- blistering gases released on W

About this time last year, an American businessman involved in China trade told me he thought Americ

Beyond the peace negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors lies a grand vision: the possibi

Since this is January, it is time to worry about the federal deficit. Richard Darman, the outgoing R

Confidence, that intangible emotion so critical to economic performance, is a fleeting thing in Euro

PRESIDENT-ELECT BILL CLINTON last week reaffirmed his commitment to the North American free-trade ag

I don't get too many calls these days from people who say: Well, if all this free trade and free ent

THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT has admitted it won't have a permanent burial place for nuclear waste in 1998,

WHY STEEL NEEDS MULTILATERAL TALKSErich Heinemann is mistaken when he blames the Bush admini

THE INEVITABLE GLOBALIZATION of the airline industry continued last week when the Departmentof Trans

America's soaring medical bills have been designated economic enemy No. 1 on Bill Clinton's reform a

For the last seven years, concerned U.S. labor activists have engaged in the futile gesture of petit

President-elect Clinton has made his choices for the cabinet posts in his new administration, but th

MOST AMERICANS think they have little in common with John McGann, a music store worker whoeffectivel

President-elect Bill Clinton and Mexican President Carlos Salinas are meeting today in San Antonio,

HEATHER GRADISON was never well suited to run the Interstate CommerceCommission, and a repor

COLD WAR BARRIERS between the two Koreas are gradually falling away. On Thursday, in a rare

The idea of 500 television channels challenges even veteran couch potatoes. Channel grazing, the hot