Commentary

House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., and Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., will seek to amend ma

RUSSIA is not the only country trying to unload debt-ridden, money-losing state enterprises. Greece'

A battle is raging in Africa largely out of view of the world community. It is not the kind of confl

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY moved gingerly last week to open its aviation market to more internal competi

Next week's summit meeting in Munich of the Group of 7 industrialized nations represents perhaps the

SELF-FULFILLING INSURANCE PROPHECIESYour June 17 article on medical malpractice raises quest

MORE EVIDENCE THIS WEEK of drastic moves to reform the Russian economy: President Boris Yelt

PORTUGAL'S PRESIDENCY of the European Community, which ends today, may be remembered best for its ba

FOR MANY U.S. COMPANIES, it seems, hardly a foreigner anywhere trades fairly. Steelmakers, w

A Commerce Department official was once asked by a new staffer "What is the trade policy of the Unit

It was the usual spring ritual in Japanese corporations, whose annual accounts are settled in March.

Bond traders and politicians make strange bedfellows. Yet for the moment they have united. They want

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS in the former Soviet republics and Eastern Europe make Western leaders nervous.

An article in Changing Times magazine criticized the airline industry as follows: "No seats . . . l

FREE TRADE HAS ITS COSTSRichard Lawrence's column on the North American free-trade agreement

RAILROADS AND THEIR UNIONS have just concluded another embarrassing chapter in their long history of

The season is now in full swing: Ascot, Wimbledon, Henley, Glyndebourne and Cowes. All are quintesse

"WHAT WE HAVE HERE . . . is a failure to communicate." The chain-gang guard in "Cool Hand Lu

President Bush has invited Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to attend this year's July 14

The dismal science of economics sometimes serves up a debate that spills over into larger questions

THIS WEEK'S STATE VISIT by Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa offers President Bush a chance to

Can he deliver? That's the central question hanging over Fidel Ramos, who succeeds Corazon Aquino Tu

CALIFORNIA IS IN THE MIDST of what is becoming an annual rite - trying to reconcile a huge shortfall

What will the Labor Party's overwhelming victory in the Israeli elections mean for the future direct

WITH ETHNIC STRIFE raging all around them, leaders of 11 Black Sea states Thursday took the quixotic

At the meat counter, "choice" denotes high quality. In fact, the word originated in a culinary conte

While media attention has been focused on recent events in the Commonwealth of Independent States an

MICHIGAN TRUCKING RULES ARE NECESSARYYour June 17 article "Michigan Moves to Deregulate Truc

The most well-intentioned plans can have unintended - and unfortunate - consequences. Such is the ca

Is it really the North American free-trade agreement (Nafta) the United States, Mexico and Canada ha

RAILROAD LABOR RELATIONS are bad and getting worse. Unions are still fuming over the wage settlement

IF THERE IS ANY DOUBT that national borders and time differences matter less and less in financial m

Mexico may be heading into a long, hot summer. Gubernatorial elections are scheduled for ear

"Now let us look into the deceitful conduct of these people. For the last 10 days they have interpos

RADICAL FRENCH FARMERS are at it again, trying to hold back European Community agricultural reforms.

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS of environmental regulation have improved air and water quality - but at a cost se

Fundamentals in the U.S. economy are improving. The Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed what busine

Through the 1980s, regaining control of the government of Nicaragua was an official American obsessi

The last 18 months have been less than kind to Jacques Delors. The president of the European

IF YOU'VE BEEN READING the letters to the editor in this paper lately, you get the impression railro