Commentary

FACTS MAY CHANGE, BUT ISSUES LINGER. How else to explain yet another spring offensive in the endless

Gun import bans are not necessarily illegal, but those imposed since 1969 are illegal, including the

It's hard to argue in favor of unfairness. Business lobbyists understand that, which is why the law

TAKE A CLOSER LOOK: IT'S NOT A CONFERENCEI read with interest your March 20 editorial, "Look

When it comes to policy-making, almost anyone can hold a candle to the U.S. Congress. That's why Sec

The winds of democratic change have become hurricanes in Eastern Europe and are extending themselves

THE END SEEMS NEAR for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The agency's demise deserves no tea

WHAT DOES HIRING A FRENCH executive have to do with teaching new skills to laid-off workers in Detro

SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON MEXICOI have read with the greatest concern the March 14 arti

The first name of Jeffrey Sterling, chairman of the Peninsula and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (the

THE RESTRUCTURING OF Venezuela's $20 billion debt to foreign commercial banks is being heralded as a

Farmers wonder if Japan's largest agricultural group is friend or foe. With U.S. trade negotiators d

Since its creation, the death of the European Free Trade Association has been announced with regular

Looking at the advance of freedom and democracy in Eastern Europe, most Americans feel a sense of sa

It has been painfully clear for quite some time that the fate of the ongoing U.S.-Japan Structural I

PRESIDENTS AND FOREIGN MINISTERS from around the world stood in line in Windhoek Tuesday night to ce

IT'S GOING TO BE HARD, but let's get it over with. That was the clear message of Sunday's elections

Rep. Daniel Rostenkowski, the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, last week pr

IF IT LOOKS LIKE A CONFERENCE, talks like a conference and acts like a conference, shouldn't it be t

In October 1987, the stock market crashed. The Dow Jones Industrial average declined over 508 point

The time has come for the European Community to translate its good will toward the infant democracie

Democrats warn that Washington must save high-tech industries from shortsighted, penny-pinching poli

That kinder, gentler spirit that's wafting across Washington may be infectious. Even some of the ha

Speculation is growing that Commerce Secretary Robert Mosbacher may resign this summer. The

PRIVATELY OWNED AIRPORTS? TOLL ROADS built and managed by private entrepreneurs? These are among th

The first free elections in East Germany are over, and the new government faces an economy in a down

PROFIT ESTIMATES WEREN'T SUPPRESSEDIn his March 7 column, "Doctoring the News on Profits" (O

The 1990s loom large as the decade of aggressive strategic technology management. The new alliance

THE PEPPER COMMISSION, the bipartisan congressional task force assigned to examine the failures of t

LAST YEAR AROUND THIS TIME, Chinese economic policy planners said inflation threatened to bring dow

About 20 years ago, the bankruptcy of six railroads threatened vital rail freight service throughou

INSURANCE REGULATION: GIVE STATES A CHANCEThe recent attention focused on the financial cond

The call to President Bush, by someone pretending to be the president of Iran, was a cruel hoax beca

WHEN TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY Samuel K. Skinner began shaping his national transportation policy 10

The debate over federal truck deregulation has focused largely on whether rates have gone up more o

IT WOULD BE NICE TO BE ABLE to cheer the inauguration Thursday of Brazil's first elected president i

During the signing of the "first" Brady plan debt reduction package, Mexican President Carlos Salina

A SAFE DISTRICT CAN MAKE all the difference. In the case of Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, D-Ill., the chair

The White House was on the warpath against the Federal Reserve Board last week. The Los Angeles Time

Hollywood may not buy it, but Washington and Tokyo are scripting a titillating suspense drama. In fa