Commentary

When sorrows come, they come not single spies but in battalions. William Shakespeare wasn't thinking

THE WELL-WORN PHRASE trade negotiations has become a fancy way of describing bilateral talks aimed a

A new horror show is playing in Congress. The villain, as depicted by a variety of reputable U.S. bu

The U.S. government is facing a critical juncture in trade policy, yet several years of work on majo

A MODEST HIGHWAY SAFETY PROGRAM launched five years ago with little fanfare has sparked a staggering

Unexpectedly good news about U.S. foreign trade in April sent Wall Street briefly into orbit last we

A June 21 editorial on LTV Corp. should have said the company has offered to pay $1 billion in stock

THE PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY CORP. should get tough with LTV Corp. as the company seeks to pay off a

Has Paris shot itself in the foot as an international financial center? Melodrama aside, the

In the aftermath of the 1984-85 drought and subsequent famine that devastated the Horn of Africa, th

REFORM IN TUNISIA: TRUE STORY UNTOLDThe opinion piece by Djamel Darradji and Eric Ehrmann (T

The House Ways and Means Committee should resist the temptation to increase the gas guzzler tax when

If you knew Joe Faraci, you would fly to Washington to interview the deputy postmaster general, too.

A PROVOCATIVE NEW REPORT from the Worldwatch Institute raises a claim straight out of the 1970s: In

THERE ARE FEW SURPRISES in the Justice Department's new draft guidelines for applying antitrust law

On May 6 the management of Texas Air Corp. filed a $1.5 billion lawsuit against the two unions repre

ODDS ARE RISING against Congress' approving the U.S.-Canadian trade pact before September. T

MCCARRAN REPEAL WILL HURT, NOT HELPFor a journal of commerce that publishes some reasonably

IF SOMETHING'S UNDESIRABLE, prohibit it. After using that approach against the ocean disposal of sew

A funny thing happened on the way to the White House. Ideology died. The liberal-conservativ

Transportation planners face two very different and virtually intractable dilemmas. The first, urban

A SPECTER IS HAUNTING WASHINGTON: the specter of Eurosclerosis. That specter, alas, is turni

A robust economy in the United States with exports in the lead and good internal growth in Japan are

The heads of government of the seven largest industrial democracies are likely to feel and express t

IN POLITICS, ONE MAN, ONE VOTE is a rule that makes sense. In corporate governance, however, it may

EVERYONE WANTS TO FIGHT DRUGS, but no one wants to pay the tab. The Coast Guard has been waiting for

Few would have expected that Snow White would offer a guide for this year's election campaign. But w

For the past couple of months, talks between U.S. and Philippine representative s have been under wa

HAVING HEARD THE WAILS OF CONSUMERS, the nation's state insurance commissioners are proposing a nove

When are you transportation-logistics people going to jazz up your image? the dean asks Tom Ashton,

Washington celebrated a historic milestone last week. By a wide margin, the Senate passed and sent t

A LOVE FEAST IS IN STORE when the leaders of the seven major industrial nations convene their annual

Call it Ebbegate. It's a Swedish scandal, not one of those late 1960's movies that tickled the pruri

IT WAS ONLY A SYMBOLIC SHIPLOAD, but the first American-built Hondas to reach the Japanese market ar

It now appears as though the U.S. equity markets will soon be relying on circuit breakers to allevia

REAL AIR BAG VICTORY BELONGS TO VICTIMThank you for your May 31 editorial that calls attenti

OPPOSING THE WISHES of senior citizens' groups may be the toughest vote in Congress. But last week,

Top finance ministers and central bankers continue to express confidence in Treasury Secretary James

SELF-PROCLAIMED FREE TRADERS are jubilant at the defeat of the Omnibus Trade Bill of 1988, now dead

To take advantage of the future in world trade, you must know where that future is going. If