Commentary

The election of a new president also means a new team to handle U.S. trade policy. Most important, i

WILL HE OR WON'T HE? A top adviser to President-elect Clinton is reviving speculation that the new p

IS IT ANY WONDER POLITICIANS on both sides of the Atlantic are held in such low regard? For six year

George Bush may regret having spent so much time during his college days on the baseball field rathe

For all the allusions to Harry Truman and John Kennedy during the campaign, Bill Clinton's sweeping

In the lingo of the paratrooper he had long been, Fidel Ramos promised to hit the ground running whe

By refusing to provide U.N. weapons inspectors with details of his guided missile programs, Saddam H

Turmoil in the currency markets and vast capital movements have created a challenge that world monet

Civility is back - and something more. No more chicken-feather states, ozone men, deep voodo

BILL CLINTON'S SENSIBLE, CENTRIST campaign has carried the day. If his policies are to do the same d

Ah, election time! How magnificent! Now the people have spoken, and their voice is the voice

The 1992 election campaign, mercifully concluded, featured a great debate about the performance of t

WHY CUSTOMS RULES ARE SO COMPLICATEDIn a recent "Trade Talk" column, you argue that Customs

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., was identified incorrectly in the Oct. 26 editorial, "Line-Item Veto." He

FINALLY, IT'S OVER. Although the last election tallies weren't in as we went to press, we could not

ONE OF THE MOST LUDICROUS antitrust lawsuits in recent history mercifully came to an end Friday. In

No need to bite your fingernails over what lies ahead for business and the economy after the electio

BY MOST ACCOUNTS, voters seem more interested in this election than any other in recent memory. But

The angst is heavy across Germany these days. After more than a decade of uninterrupted grow

TODAY'S ELECTION, more than any other in recent memory, is a roll of the dice. None of the choices i

MARINE SPILL FIRMS ARE NOT COMPETITORSPlease allow me to clarify some points about t

WE HAVE HEARD TOO OFTEN the trite charges traded this election year: the ''trickle down" Republican

The failure of world leaders to conclude the current round of global trade talks is turning into a s

ROYALTY IS NOT what it used to be. Consider Liechtenstein, a tiny principality between Austria and S

In his agenda for a second term, President Bush sums up what he sees distinguishing him from Gov. Bi

NO MATTER WHO becomes president, U.S. companies that own foreign-registered ships plan a push next y

Infrastructure is a useful, if ungainly, word. It's shorthand for society's physical skeleto

AT A TIME WHEN POLITICAL POSTURING by world leaders is supplanting common sense, it is encouraging t

AND YOU THOUGHT it took a long time to settle world trade disputes. According to a report fr

When Russian President Boris Yeltsin recently canceled a planned visit to Japan, analysts were quick

Sen. Al Gore wants to direct environmental policy in a Clinton administration. The prospect should f

The 1992 campaign is not a choice between "free trade" and "protectionism." Although the Bush campai

SKYROCKETING MEDICAL COSTS and cutbacks in private insurance plans will be on the minds of many vote

CROWLEY'S PROMPT RESPONSE IN IRAQ WARWith reference to the supposed lack of participation by

Over the last 25 years, the health sector's share of the U.S. economy has more than doubled.

IN A MISGUIDED ATTEMPT to curry favor with anti-Castro Cubans in Florida, George Bush committed anot

From all the sound and fury emanating from Beijing, you'd think that Hong Kong Gov. Chris Patten had

A week before the election, the U.S. economy remains on track for a moderate recovery. Consumer spen

CANADIANS DELIVERED a resounding, and in many ways perplexing, "no" verdict in Monday's referendum o

In "The Case Against Tort Reform," an Opinion article that appeared Oct. 21, the drug DES should hav