Commentary

The president has only a few real duties. He must tell us truths we don't want to hear. He must set

President Bush's call for a 90-day moratorium on all regulatory action and a review of all regulator

The post-mortems on President Bush's Japan trip have about finished, which will delight most readers

A FEDERAL JUDGE seeking to enforce a U.S. dolphin protection law against Mexico has caught 20 other

Without fanfare or even much discussion, the "new world order" proclaimed by President Bush is about

Toxic Waste Is Everyone's Problem The American Insurance Association appreciates that you re

THE NEXT TIME you flip on a light switch, consider this: The electricity you use may have been gener

A new award is in the air, courtesy of Rep. Richard Armey, R-Texas. It's the ''Mark Twain Statistica

Chinese Premier Li Peng's nine-day trip to Europe and to the United Nations has been hailed by some

funnelling the results of government research to industry - has been amuch-discussed but woefully ne

One by one, the building blocks for expansion in the U.S. economy are falling into place.The Federal

BENITO MUSSOLINI WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD. Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of the World War II dict

Barriers to trade with the developing world are far fewer today than at any time in recent history.<

Having sold off dozens of state-owned corporations and become a world authority on privatization, th

For a quick course in wacky policy-making, look at George Bush's latest plan for divvying up the U.S

TRADITIONAL CRAFT DISTINCTIONS among transportation unions - longshoremen, teamsters and rail worker

A YEAR AFTER THE GULF WAR, Kuwait says it is going ahead with plans to build a security fence along

AVOID 'PHARMACIST ONLY' CLASS OF DRUGSYour story on a proposal to create a new class of non-

A SIGN OF THE TIMES in the former Soviet Union: Leaders of the republics say they will condemn human

The breathtaking array of recent geopolitical changes around the globe presents both challenges and

THE 1980 "SUPERFUND" LAW, which required polluters to clean up contaminated sites, is producing a le

The seasons of government give a special flavor to this city unlike that of any other place. Here it

President Bush's new federal budget offered one incentive for maritime investment but eliminated ano

SOME OF THE MOST AGGRAVATING BARRIERS to U.S. trade are erected by the U.S. government, not by forei

ONE OF THE LAST BASTIONS of Marxist economics, Cuba, is slowly beginning to see the light. A

We all want solutions to our woes, particularly now our economic ones. However, the kind of

On inauguration day three years ago, President Carlos Salinas committed his government to reshaping

In recent weeks, as the world's oldest system of one-party rule collapsed on the Eurasian continent,

GEORGE BUSH'S PLAN for rescuing the economy - an assortment of piecemeal tax cuts and business incen

"THE VISION THING," that elusive commodity for the Bush administration, showed up this week in the p

The popular concern about the solvency of the insurance industry - which reached its peak last summe

HONG KONG NEEDS US INTERVENTIONYour opinion article by Mary Child, opposing the United State

It is not surprising that President Bush spent relatively little time in his State of the Union addr

ACERBIC SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER Bob Dole touched on an important truth this week as President Bush

WHICH COMES FIRST, the European Community's internal effort to reduce farm subsidies or a global agr

Following is an open letter to Chairman Donald Riegle and the Senate Banking Committee: Fede

The Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 - known in shorthand as the highway bil

World opinion has been calling for some time now for Japan to play a much bigger role in internation

US INTEREST IN HONG KONG IS WELCOMEMary Child's opinion article on the U.S.- Hong Kong polic

Very few international institutions are as closely associated with their leader as the European Bank