Commentary

To hear Republicans like Dan Quayle talk, you might think they are the only ones who care about refo

Selling free trade is always tough. In bad economic times it is even tougher. That it should be done

STRIP MINING FOR COAL in national parks is a deeply disturbing idea. It's also unlikely to ever happ

Barring an eleventh hour political reprieve for President Bush, William Jefferson Clinton of Hope, A

The debate about presidential debates has been going on for several weeks. Bill Clinton's camp says

PRIVATIZING STATE ENTERPRISES may be tougher than Russia's leaders planned - and they have only them

If politics can make for strange bedfellows, it can make for even stranger economic policy. In the c

GEORGE BUSH AND BILL CLINTON are endorsing much different economic plans, butneither has bee

SHIPOWNER SUPPORT IS NOT A SUBSIDYYour Sept. 1 article on Japanese shipbuilding supp

During a private Washington luncheon this past August, Konstantin Natonovich Borovoi, a successful R

The crisis in the European Community has delivered a killer blow to Eastern Europe's bid to integrat

GIVEAWAYS TO FARMERS are growing like weeds in the U.S. Agriculture Department. Less than a

AFTER YEARS OF DEBATE, Congress is close to passing a much-needed law to automate the paperbound Cus

U.S. officials aren't showing it publicly, but privately they are concerned about the competitive co

Consumers throughout the United States, especially those in Northeastern states far from the dusty g

Much has been written in the last year about the value of a North American free-trade agreement. Fro

IT IS WELCOME NEWS whenever regulators defer to the marketplace. The Interstate Commerce Commission

Over the past few years, Asean, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, has emerged as a key exp

MOUNTING PILES OF GARBAGE in the Netherlands, and diminishing space to bury it, have prompted a Drac

MOST ELECTRICITY in the United States is produced by regulated utilities, which also transmit that p

Back in the days when Roy Rogers was a cowboy and not a fast-food restaurant, young boys ran around

Election-year politics have made "excessive" executive pay a hot issue. Critics have likened the arr

GERMANY WAS RIFE with turmoil last week, and not only in currency andfinancial markets. A da

WHY US JOBS WILL SHIFT TO MEXICOProf. Stefan H. Robock's opinion column Sept. 15 ("Why Plant

In the bleak Depression winter of 1930-31, the leader of the U.S. Communist Party, William Z. Foster

Confused by the currency turmoil in Europe? The flood of ink spent on it suggests that all that need

BILL CLINTON RECEIVED SOME GOOD NEWS Wednesday. Ron Carey, the energetic new president of the Teamst

Japan is a very rich country, with average individual incomes among the highest in the world, but Ja

SPAIN'S FINANCE MINISTER, Carlos Solchaga, is in Washington this week tilting at windmills. So are t

Despite the narrow vote in the French referendum in favor of the Maastricht Treaty, policy-makers mu

IF THERE HAS BEEN A SILVER LINING in the demise of Eastern Airlines, Pan Am and other failed U.S. ca

For too long, opponents of a capital gains tax cut have sought to portray a lower tax rate as a boon

Who is to blame for the recent currency crisis on European foreign exchange markets? While e

THE HIGH HOPES for European union, forged last December in Maastricht, have given way to a sober mor

With President Bush getting ready to submit the North American free-trade agreement (Nafta) to Congr

ARTICLES CONFUSED RATE MATTERSI am writing to clarify the Military Sealift Command's (MSC) p

TIMES HAVE BEEN TOUGH in the former Soviet Union the last few years, but thathasn't quelled

BEIJING IS TRYING to restore order to China's fledgling stock exchanges, which have been in chaos fo

HOW MUCH DRUG TESTING IS ENOUGH? Probably less than the Transportation Department requires now. More

Scientists shuddered when Lyndon Johnson declared his interest in "what science could do for grandma