Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Solid expansion in the United States - powered by gains in consumer spending, business investment, h

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

U.S. TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANIES are among the very best in the world - and the rest of the world i

TEN YEARS AND $4 BILLION into its search for a permanent storage site for civilian nuclear waste, th