Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When militant Hindus destroyed an ancient mosque in Ayodhya last month, they may have done more than

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

A COUNTERPOINT ON COUNTERTRADEAs chairman of the Countertrade Committee formed by U.

FIVE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS of the former Soviet Union have long complained of their "junior partne

Nearly every American family participates in or benefits from federal entitlement programs.

1993 has the look of a landmark year in U.S. trade legislation. Congress, it is widely belie

BARELY TWO MONTHS into his new administration, Bill Clinton will head a government that is officiall

THE COSTS OF STUBBORN SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS are mounting as Israel nears the end of the third week of i

BIG POST-CHRISTMAS SALES are all the rage at this time of year, but nothing compares with the post-C

Many Americans fear the North American free-trade agreement will start a race by U.S. companies to m

Several weeks into Operation Restore Hope, there are signs the U.S.-led intervention is evolving to

Congressional leaders, aided and abetted by operatives in the new Clinton administration, are planni

A DISCONCERTING LEGACY remains from the last Congress as the new one takes office: A tendency to inc

PENA'S EXPERIENCE ON THE FRONT LINESI read with amazement the "Straight Talk" column by Ira

As President-elect Clinton finalizes his opening economic strategy, the issue of a capital gains tax

THE SPECTACULAR FALL of Brazil's reform-minded president, Fernando Collor de Mello, overshadows an e

The European Community was supposed to be in a party mood this week, celebrating the launch of the w

While most Americans prepared Christmas lists this Yuletide, others spent the holiday compiling list

Richard the Third has always been a favorite Shakespearean character of mine. Unlike Hamlet, he neve

ANYONE WHO EXPECTED a quick end to the world trade talks after November's U.S.-European farm deal ha

Maritime and longshore unions shortly may help revive one of the issues that complicated last year's

AT MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, the 12-nation European Community officially turns into a single market, poised

The high quality of health care in the United States is indisputable. But the rapid and dramatic inc

A hundred years ago a debate raged in England over trade and industrial policy. Great Britain, then

President-elect Bill Clinton completed his cabinet in time to meet his Christmas deadline and few ar

IT COULD BE months before the words "robust" and "economy" are used in the same breath. Still, as th

I just heard yesterday. A close college friend, an attorney, lost his job - his third one in two yea

A Mainland Chinese acquaintance working in Hong Kong phoned me on Christmas eve. "What is yo

COMMUNICATIONS GIANTS in the cable television and telephone industries are having trouble communicat

WHEN 45-YEAR-OLD Federico Pena becomes transportation secretary next month, he'll discover an unnerv