Commentary

SPECIAL INTERESTS ARE NEVER FAR from a congressional debate. In the final minutes of House floor act

The economic reforms that Mexico has undertaken in the last five years, with the impetus that Presid

Hoping to stave off hyperinflation, Argentina has pegged the value of its currency, the austral, to

CLEAN AIR LAWS can make breathing easier for city dwellers, but they also can be twisted to serve n

DON'T BLAME PREBISCH FOR BRAZIL'S WOESMuch of James Bruce's article, "Brazil's Own 'Perestro

LIKE A CAREFULLY CHOREOGRAPHED dance, railroad workers went on strike Wednesday, Congress began hear

The recent crisis in the Persian Gulf has intensified American resentment towards Japan. But the res

President Bush is about to become more involved with a commodity near and dear to me: peanut butter.

On occasion, veteran observers of the Japanese scene sometimes think the past few decades were just

In the last few weeks, the papers have been full of lurid tales of political intrigue in the Federal

WHEN JOHN C. CROSBIE, Canada's minister for international trade, met with editors of The Journal of

Stanford University's withdrawal of its galling charges to the government for floral bouquets and a

PRIVATE WESTERN INVESTMENT is one of the keys to building and sustaining the nascent market economi

Just six months after political unification, the struggle to define a German national identity can b

WORLD OIL MARKETS ARE NOT RELIABLEThe assertions made by Henry R. Linden in his April 2 opin

Twice in four months, the United States forgave billions of dollars of a foreign government's debt.

WHEN SOVIET PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev makes his first official visit to Tokyo today, he will be me

Sen. Donald Riegle, D-Mich., will lead a Senate effort to thwart U.S.-Mexican free trade negotiation

America's victory in the Gulf War will make it harder than every for Tokyo to say no to Washington o

BIG CARS CAN BE FUEL-EFFICIENT, TOOYou correctly argue that decisive action is necessary to

AS TRUCKS HAVE INCREASED in size and number, so has the government's interest in making them safer.

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION was busy last week. On the same day the ICC improved its truck s

In a visit to the stores over the weekend, I found almost everything was on sale. A good deal could

Rep. Donald Pease, D-Ohio, is expectedto introduce legislation this week to modernize the U.S. Custo

Congress has a little-noticed but highly demanding task before it this session: updating century-ol

DISCOUNT STORES SERVE AN IMPORTANT ROLE in our society, providing consumers who don't want or need

TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY SAMUEL K. SKINNER made the right decision this week when he agreed to dela

MEXICO'S PRESIDENT, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, has been on the road to drum up support for a North A

Despite hopes to the contrary, de-bilitating overcapacity in the world's container shipping trades a

With the Feb. 5 release of the Treasury Department's proposal, banking reform will be a high priorit

MOST OF THE NATION'S RAILROADS could be shut down by a strike next Wednesday, but no one is likely t

SHIP PACT UNDERMINES COMPETITIVENESSOn March 27 you ran two portentious front page stories -

Carlos Moore, executive vice president of the American Textile Manufacturers Institute, is the autho

CHINA FELL FROM GRACE with the world after the Tiananmen incident in the spring of 1989. But Chinese

JAPAN IS NOT AMERICA'S economic enemy. Nearly a dozen trade agreements signed by the two countries i

During its 70-year history, the People's Republic of Mongolia has been dominated by its neighbor to

The U.S. economy fell at a rate of over 4 percent during the first quarter, more than double its dec

It doesn't sound terribly dangerous. In fact, it sounds downright dull. But it has touched off riots

A hidden policy bomb was plant-ed in Congress on March 1, and lawmakers apparently have no idea of i

IF IT'S BROKEN, FIX IT. If it can't be fixed, replace it with something new. Shipping lines particip