Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

During the last weeks of this presidential campaign, voters have been presented with a series of vit

With election day approaching fast, many voters are making a final gut check: Would they be comforta

The European Community is paralyzed by soul-searching and recrimination as its grand plan for econom

The slogan, "jobs, jobs, jobs" unites the presidential candidates. They differ over how to create th

WHATEVER YOU THINK OF GEORGE BUSH'S trade policies, you're likely to think the same of Bill Clinton'

NO WONDER VOTERS are fed up with government. The bean counters in the Montgomery County, Md., govern

DOES ANYONE UNDERSTAND what's happening at the world trade talks? So far this month, the negotiation

The industrial policy debate in America is nothing new. The country was born with a government-inspi

If politicians' promises could tame health-care costs, a day in the hospital wouldn't cost more than

IF THE COUNTRY HAD A NICKEL for every time George Bush mentioned the line-item veto, the federal def

If presidential front-runner Bill Clinton is elected, it is unlikely he will want to grapple with tr

BRITAIN'S COAL MINERS won two rounds this week in their effort to block government plans to close 31

DRIVING AN 80,000-POUND TRUCK over congested highways is tense, tiring work. Nonetheless, the govern

Drip, drip, drip. Trickle has become the operative word in the presidential campaign. Economic benef

The world is changing faster than you can say New World Order. Technology and the information revolu

Jonas Savimbi, leader of Angola's opposition National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Un

SOME OF THE SHARPEST political commentary this year is coming from bond markets. Investors i

THE RECENT "OPEN SKIES" ACCORD between the United States and the Netherlands seems to be focusing th

At the risk of being burned at the stake for the modern version of heresy - political incorrectness

TRUCKERS DEFEND HOURS PROPOSALAs a regular reader of your newspaper, not to mention

About this time every four years, presidential politics and post-season baseball share the spotlight

CONTRACTS ARE USUALLY THE PRODUCT of tough, hard-nosed bargaining. That's no less true in the mariti

Five years after the 1987 meltdown in the stock market, Wall Street and Washington are busily reassu

Few issues have roiled relations between Japan and the nations of Southeast Asia and the Pacific reg

MOST AMERICANS KNOW they should save more of what they earn. Politicians know it, too, and have trie

A popular election year myth holds that manufacturers of dangerous products are victims of a runaway