Commentary

Politics are muddying the national discussion of economic policy. The administration is confusing ta

With the United States on the verge of recognizing the newly independent but still unarticled Ukrain

NO ONE CAN MANAGE A DISASTER like Sam Skinner. During his three years as secretary of Transp

POLITICAL REPRESSION and economic stagnation are not communism's only legacy. As Eastern Europe and

It's too much to expect all contingents of the elephantine U.S. government to sound the same policy

This weekend marks the start of the fifth year of the Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupatio

As prospects diminish for a quick exit from the current recession, concerns about inflation and corp

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN if government forced companies to consult with their workers before making importa

WHAT A DIFFERENCE A PHRASE MAKES. With only a few weeks to go before a new Medicare payment

This city is being treated to two contrasting examples of teamwork. One involves the Washing

WITH A PUBLIC RELATIONS SPLASH, the Bush administration last week released its annual list of potent

WRONGHEADED VIEW ON TARIFF CUTSI must confess to some confusion after reading Charles Bremer

There is an old Reader's Digest saying (sometimes attributed to George Bernard Shaw) that if you lai

NORWAY IS DISCOVERING that ending trade barriers with the European Community could mean a freer flow

Bankruptcy, unemployment, homelessness and recession are the new buzzwords for the nineties. With th

The 102nd Congress has just adjourned for the year; its braver members are back home with the electo

IT'S A WONDER FOREIGN-MADE GOODS ever reach U.S. store shelves. Every product arriving at a U.S. por

ITALIANS TAKE THEIR PASTA VERY SERIOUSLY. Reuters reports that Italian authorities this week unleash

As the Uruguay Round of world trade talks moves toward a final, critical juncture, the United States

There is no escaping it. Everywhere you turn in Britain these days, the issue is the same: Europe.

There is a strain of schizophrenia running through the current national debate on when to restrict f

EXPAND MARITIME SUBSIDIESNational security and a balanced economy rely on a modern, diverse

THE TORTUOUS TALE of New Jersey's strained relations with auto insurers has taken another twist. A s

EVEN GEORGE BUSH, the old China hand, is running out of patience with Beijing's unfair trade policie

THERE'S A LOT TO LIKE in the new $151 billion national transportation bill that cleared the Congress

After a year in power in the most industrialized province of Canada, Ontario's socialists are discov

India's government is making many changes every day to increase the role of private enterprise in th

FOR 10 MONTHS the administration labored mightily to modernize banking laws that bar interstate bran

The Export-Import Bank is dickering with the Russian Republic's Bank for Foreign Trade before it sig

Intoxicated with public support, environmental activists celebrated last year after cajoling the thr

After months of painstaking negotiations between leaders of the Tokyo Stock Exchange and officials o

THE DECADES-OLD WAR between anti-smoking advocates and tobacco companies has become a battle for the

Snow has yet to fall on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but this is the winter of discontent for George Bu

THE PUSH-ME, PULL-YOU NATURE of the five-year Uruguay Round of trade talks is beginning to try the p

FED'S MONETARY POLICY IS BEST TOOLIn Don Becker's Oct. 30 column ("Publisher's Notebook," Pa

Fidel Castro is turning Cuba into a supermarket for Third World nuclear technology. Delegations from

The international shipping community is taking quiet satisfaction in the fact that Americans probabl

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA'S transportation planners, who have been scrambling to relieve congestion around

ADDING TO THE CONSIDERABLE WOES of Soviet citizens is news of impending coffee shortages in 1992. So

The Civil Rights Act of 1991, which President Bush signed Thursday, contained a little-noted but imp