Commentary

CONGRESS HAS A DESERVED reputation as protectionist. But once they are done with the speeches, membe

Every public opinion poll shows that large increases in immigration are opposed by exceptionally lar

JAPAN'S PRIME MINISTER, Toshiki Kaifu, is in a no-win position. Even after a promise to donate $4 bi

There probably aren't many Japanese officials who agree with Pat Choate, the author of new book warn

SINGAPORE IS ONE OF the world's economic showcases. Politically, however, the island-state is run mo

EARLY TUESDAY MORNING members of the House-Senate conference on the 1990 Farm Bill took a very larg

Compared with the attention paid to stealth bombers, laser-guided weapons, cruise missiles and other

EMPTY THREATS NEVER pay. And the United States' latest threats to retaliate against European governm

Little over a month since arriving here, surprise and shock still come easily. Surprise to f

ALARMING REPORTS WARN that the insurance industry may not be able to weather a severe economic downt

At the beginning of this month, U.S. sugar import policy was transformed. Hurray for progress, but d

Congress is on the verge of passing a major increase in taxes on upper-income households. Proponents

With a tone appropriate to discussion of an unmistakable public misfortune, the survey and polling

Margaret Thatcher even managed to crack a couple of Monty Python jokes as she confidently addressed

AS THE FIGHT OVER TAXES gets hot and heavy, at least some organizations are sticking to their princi

FOR MONTHS DOOMSAYERS have been forecasting that the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations would colla

A shocking feature of the U.S. government budget deficit has been the explosion in its projected siz

Soap operas can be pretty confusing. But few television dramas are as involved as Washington's lates

EXECUTIVE-CONGRESSIONAL RELATIONS in Peru could be better. Last week, President Alberto Fujimori wa

The House this week may approve most-favored-nation trade benefits for Czechoslovakia and vote on pr

The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the subsequent turmoil in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting C

THERE WASN'T MUCH CELEBRATION, but Sunday was an anniversary worth recalling. Ten years ago, on Oct.

WORDS NOT MEANT TO DESCRIBE SLATERI am deeply disappointed that an article in your Oct. 2 ed

SOVIET PRESIDENT MIKHAIL GORBACHEV promised to present an economic reform program to the national Pa

It cost Donald Trump more than $1 billion to learn this lesson: Sometimes the best deal is the one y

In ancient Roman mythology, Janus was the god of gates and doorways whose two faces looked in opposi

THE PEOPLE OF PUERTO RICO have every right to decide their own political future. But when the House

DEREGULATION HAS YET TO make much of a mark in international aviation. While domestic carriers in th

AMERICANS MAY SCOFF at the excuse European officials sometimes give for their reluctance to reduce s

Maybe this year U.S. physicians won't increase their incomes by 12.5 percent, as they did in 1989. T

Soviet support of the United Nations role in the Middle East has given new importance and influence

Americans hot to do business with the Soviet Union or Eastern Europe should beware. The most crushin

AFTER MONTHS OF HESITATION, Britain has taken the monetary plunge. But its leap into Western Europe'

Since 1947 there have been eight years when U.S. crude oil prices increased by more than 5 percent o

Not in recent memory has a World Bank-International Monetary Fund meeting been as dogged by uncertai

IMMIGRATION RESTRICTIONS mean labor restrictions: It would be impossible to enforce limits on the nu

You may not have noticed it in all the tumult and the shouting over the federal budget, but Congress

As anti-Japanese rhetoric grows more strident in the United States, some conservatives here retort,

The Persian Gulf crisis has catapulted the International Energy Agency, the Paris-based club of indu

EXCESSIVE PUNITIVE DAMAGE AWARDS do need to be reined in. But in its eagerness to prevent juries fro