Commentary

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

The Bush administration isn't giving up on the national energy strategy bill crafted by Sen. Bennett

With very little fanfare, the U.S. Customs Service two months ago proposed new regulations that will

CONGRESS IS DOING ITS BEST to put McDonnell Douglas out of business. The St. Louis aircraft

Who killed Midway Airlines? There's plenty of blame to go around.There are the obvious suspe

In voting last week to cap consumer credit card rates, U.S. senators undoubtedly thought they had ac

Nuclear submarines and washing machines may have little in common, but they have even less in common

HEALTH CARE COSTS are spiraling out of control, prompting much hand-wringing in Washington and polic

SHIP INSPECTIONS AREN'T GOOD ENOUGHI noticed an article in your Nov. 15 edition ("GAO Says C

The next big question in the continuing debate over the pros and cons of foreign trade for the Ameri

Pearl Harbor's 50th anniversary is approaching, U.S.-Japan ties continue to be strained and Japan ha

JAMES BAKER'S TRIP TO BEIJING on Sunday produced no breakthroughs on China's egregious humanrights p

Let's call it Country X. On its own motion, it is converting its economy from the communist

India, facing default on its $65 billion foreign debt without an immediate injection of funds, annou

The sell-off in the global stock market last week was a monument to the stupidity of one man_ U.S. S

PROPOSED HIGH-SPEED passenger rail systems are the darling of U.S. transportation planners anxious t

A HOUSE JUDICIARY SUBCOMMITTEE finally moved last week to approve its chairman's bill to severely li

NEW APPROACHES TO ENERGY POLICYThere is much merit in the Journal's argument that America mu

Now that Congress has put new energy legislation on hold at least temporarily, policy-makers have a

If all goes as planned at the Maastricht summit next month, 1991 could go down as one of the most re

What used to be called the Soviet Union is now falling apart far faster than almost anyone anticipat

EVEN AS EASTERN EUROPE, the Soviet republics and Latin America embrace open markets, many inCongress

Americans' faith in their banking and securities industries has been badly shaken by a rash of recen

This city is full of "competitiveness" rhetoric and proposals to sharpen American industry's competi

U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills declared in 1989 that the United States is "the most open mark

AMERICA'S DUMPING LAWS ARE FLAWEDOf late, dumping regulations are being used and abused as a

The scientific pork barrel surged to historic proportions this year, reaching $500 million in federa

AFTER YEARS OF FRUSTRATION, world trade negotiators are close to an agreement for cutting government

COMMISSIONERS DEMAND EQUAL TIMEWe were surprised and disturbed that in your Nov. 4 special r

First-rate economically, Japan is third-rate politically, at home and abroad. Inept, uninspired lead

The serious problems confronting the U.S. merchant marine - a shrinking, money-losing industry that

U.S. CONGRESSMEN aren't the only politicians who manage to stay in office forever. According to Reut

PENNSYLVANIA IS ABOUT TO LEARN a costly lesson. After more than six years of litigation against a ba

WESTERN EFFORTS to keep nuclear technology from outlaw nations have been something less than a succe

THE UNITED STATES is not the only country angling to increase trade ties with Latin America. A new r

Japanese voters can hardly be blamed for the fall of Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, the baby-faced Li

Countertrade, once viewed as a necessary evil in international trade, now is an increasingly valuabl

Twice in as many months, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has surrendered to overwhelming pol

THE SOVIET UNION hasn't been a military threat to the West for some time now. NATO made that officia

GERMANY SUPPORTS the European Community's single market program, but not, apparently, at the expense