Commentary

WITH THE DECISION THURSDAY to hold off on any trade sanctions against India, the Bush administration

THEY ALL LAUGHED AT ERIE CANAL, TOOThe opinion of Marc Levinson, editorial director of The J

THE "UNFAIRNESS" LOBBY is at work in Washington once more. With the claim that other nations are usi

When Mexico's president, Carlos Salinas de Gortari, was here last October, his reshaping of the Mexi

What good news that Professor Paul Krugman, who once served Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advi

DEREGULATION IS A GOOD THING, but it seems to have become sacrosanct of late, sometimes to the detri

Post mortems on the credit crisis caused by the savings and loan disaster have become Washington's m

NOTHING IS ON PAPER YET, but the presidents of the United States and Mexico earlier this week announ

Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu, once thought to be no more than a temporarycaretaker, now is s

Apparently we will hear no more talk of Donald Trump for president. There was a time, before

Mikhail Gorbachev has tried hard to relegate the Soviet Communist Party Congress, scheduled to conve

If this port city's economy doesn't benefit significantly from the changes now going on in Eastern E

One can pick up the morning paper and read about new trade agreements and special trade liaisons for

THE PERUVIAN PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN. Alberto Fujimori, a first-generation Peruvian and dark horse candi

DON'T DO TODAY WHAT YOU CAN put off till tomorrow. That seems to be the philosophy behind the Bush

INSURANCE IS A HYBRID INDUSTRY. For 45 years, it has enjoyed a hothouse environment of regulatory pr

The class struggle isn't a very fashionable thing to talk about. The ideology of our age holds that

THE UNITED STATES WANTS Colombia's help to stop the flow of cocaine. But the Bush administration doe

It is well-known by now that prices of many Japanese-made goods are higher in Japan than in the Unit

The bell may be about to ring for another round in the long fight to revise maritime subsidies.<

The publicity campaign to free Orlando Bosch is in high gear again. Hunger strikes, jail-hou

As the countries of Eastern Europe begin the difficult metamorphosis to market economies, most of th

ALLOWING A STATE TO KEEP the proceeds from an unlawful tax is fundamentally unfair. The U.S. Supreme

COMPANIES ITCHING TO DO BUSINESS in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe can take heart. The House of

The new coalition government in India has sent clear signals that it is willing to meet, at least ha

I hope that when historians look back on the recent summit meeting here they will see a link between

BILL AIMS TO REDUCE EARTHQUAKE DAMAGEYour editorial of May 10 ("Earthquake Exposure") correc

''THE FACT IS THAT a large part of our society is disintegrating, so large a part that it cannot hel

With the Cold War over and capitalism triumphant, the struggle is now between brands of free-market

CALIFORNIA IS KNOWN for being on the leading edge of almost every social trend. Voters' overwhelming

The unexpectedly robust showing by newcomer Alberto Fujimori in round one of Peru's presidential con

WHEN STRIKEBOUND EASTERN AIRLINES filed last year under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Act, th

Nearly four years ago, Robert F. Morison, our maritime correspondent nonpareil, reported how John D.

What's the world coming to? Pierre A. Rinfret, the court jester of the economics profession, is now

THEY'RE STILL ARRANGING the seating for the budget talks in Washington. But if President Bush and co

Moscow's economic blockade of Lithuania has cast a dark and cold shadow over the Baltic republics' a

Here's a two-part formula to spread personal heartbreak and political distrust throughout the land:

AS A FLOOD OF EAST-WEST TRADE rushes around it, the Bush administration keeps trying to stanch the f

The budget negotiators in Washington need to come up with budget numbers that command respect and a

I like to ride the train as much as anyone. I ride two - one above ground, one beneath - to the offi