Commentary

Sweden's political swing to the right may not herald changes as dramatic as those now sweeping Centr

NO ONE SAID IT WOULD BE EASY to convert Europe's former communist states to market economies. Two re

A plaque in New York City reads, "Out of their martyrdom came new concepts of social responsibility

MOST FEDERAL FUNDS for building and repairing the nation's highways will stop flowing to the states

The Soviet economy has so routinely been described in the West as ''collapsing," "disintegrating," o

THE WHITE HOUSE apparently isn't in a compromising mood on national energy strategy. In a ta

With most of the Marxist world in ruins, it's time for the United States to end its trade and diplom

AFTER TWO YEARS of languishing in Congress, the drug testing debate for transportation workers is ba

U.S. trade policy acts as if every handout given to a foreign business is automatically a stab in th

CF CALLS EMERY AIR ARTICLE UNTRUEWe are very disturbed by your article "CF's Choice of Finan

So, here's the deal: I'll give you a Michael Milken for a Neil Bush. But nobody's getting Charles Ke

NVOS MUST ORGANIZE TO FIGHT TARIFF FILINGI have been following with more than a little inter

By and large, these are sunny days for President Bush. Almost everywhere you look, events seem to be

COUNTRIES ACTING ALONE can rarely stop the worldwide sale of goods that others are eager to buy. Tha

Now that the rhetoric surrounding the "war on drugs" has cooled somewhat, the time is right to devel

THE PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORP., the federal agency that insures retirementplans, just lo

CONSOLIDATIONS, MERGERS AND BANKRUPTCIES in the airline industry have sparked panicky calls for re-r

As the euphoria from the Soviet coup dies down, national leaders and foreign friends of the Soviet d

Last Friday, the Federal Reserve gave in to political and market pressure andcut the discoun

Mr. and Mrs. Kenji Suzuki are not exactly the happiest of retirees in Yokohama these days. Their two

President Francois Mitterrand managed to restore some luster to his tarnished image last week. For m

TALES OF WASTEFUL GOVERNMENT SPENDING are nothing new, but the latest excesses - this time by Washin

UNION DEMOCRACY IS RECEIVING A BLACK EYE at West Coast ports. The nearly 50,000 members of the Inter

WHO IS TO BLAME FOR INSURANCE WOES?Though not for lack of trying, insurance industry

In the dog days of August, when most politicians were as far away from Washington as they could get,

CONGRESS HOLDS UP IMF SHOW ODDS THAT THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND will win a $60 billion

IF YOU THINK AIRLINE PASSENGERS are less safe since airlines were deregulated, think again. Airline

REMEMBER WHEN, early last year, Tokyo announced a new national imports promotion campaign? We haven'

Democracy and the free-market system stand victorious over one-party dictatorships and command econo

Airline deregulation, apparently, has become one of those subjects doomed for perpetual controversy.

CHINA AND VIETNAM have been forging closer political ties lately, mostly to help bring an end to the

THE 1989 EXXON VALDEZ oil spill produced legislative and regulatory ripples that are about to wash u

Judge Harold Greene's July 25 decision allowing the seven regional Bell companies to enter the infor

The lackluster economic performance of the United States over the past decade compared with Japan is

Consider, for a second, the ruble. This may be an unexciting subject to you after watching the recen

The wetlands issue today is about where hazardous waste was six or seven years ago. At that time gov

Mercy and economics call for taming the health-care system's perverse flair for consuming gargantuan

Some issues never quite die. Despite repeated consideration and frequent action by Congress, they co

TRUCKING CARTELS ARE DYING. Last week, Yellow Freight System Inc., the nation's largest trucking com

U.S. LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES should be heartened, not dismayed, by a forewarning from the American