Commentary

WHEN FOREIGN POLICY is at issue, the Reagan administration often appears of two minds. One is domina

Wall Street was shocked last week by an unexpected slump in U.S. foreign trade. According to the Co

The trade bill negotiations between the administration and Congress have collapsed over the issue of

ONE OF JIMMY HOFFA'S PROUDEST achievements as president of the International Brotherhood of Teamster

THE AILING LABOR MOVEMENT needs a victory. That, more than anything else, explains organized labor's

South Korea is being haunted by the prospect of an Olympic Games racked by violence. The cou

Are We Subsidizing The Wrong Ships?Your newspaper has been replete with reports about the de

THE U.S. SENATE has finally said No! to drugs. By a margin of 63 to 27, senators voted Thursday to s

The Free Trade Agreement between Canada and the United States contains no provisions on transportati

As my guide from the Irish Development Agency drove me through the pleasant green suburbs of Cork, m

THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT to bid for military cargoes is one of the prerogatives of ships flying the U.S.

THIS COUNTRY'S APPROACH to tobacco usage has become as smoky as the industry's products. Cigarette p

RAIL AND TRUCK lobbyists never tire of attacking one another, but this week the American Trucking As

HERE'S AN IDEA: Let's tax well-run businesses to subsidize their mismanaged competitors. The

Speaker of the House of Representatives James Wright surprised me. I asked him what was wrong with t

From 1854 to the end of World War II, only two peacetime expansions of the U.S. economy lasted three

Article Misjudged MacBride PrinciplesI read with great interest Mr. John Cushnahan's attack

More than 4,500 people died in heavy truck-related accidents last year, and the number is growing. A

During the past seven years, the Reagan administration has played a persistent drum-beat on the them

THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY'S sudden eagerness to reduce the use of chlorofluorocarbon s carries with it a

RAILROAD LABOR UNIONS WON a lawsuit last week when a federal appeals court affirmed their right to b

AS THE MEMBERS of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund meet this week in Washington, o

Austerity budgets and structural reforms in Argentina have earned President Raul Alfonsin internatio

On March 8, 1988, the Journal of Commerce printed an op-ed article by Robert C. Waters, a professor

The diplomatic accords designed to pave the way for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan

It may be surprising to learn that commercial fishing is the most dangerous industry in the United S

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan seems determined to scuttle the U.S. economic expansion. Las

The three major international aid agencies headquartered here, the International Monetary Fund, the

IN THE MID 1970s, Standard Oil Co. of Ohio proposed an efficient, secure system to get the crude oi

IN THE MIDST of the increasingly xenophobic reaction to foreign investors who buy into the United St

The head-hunters will soon be on their way to Silicon Valley, hoping to put an end once and for all

A DECISION on awarding an airline route between Seattle and Tokyo offers the Department of Transport

Young Drivers Will Keep US TruckingThe national shortage of qualified truck drivers needed t

IN THE COURT of public opinion, perception and reality are often one and the same. No one un

The chief question in the ocean shipping industry for the 1990s is whether the U.S. goal of a strong

THE POLITICAL STRUGGLE is not yet over. But as Congress reconvenes today after its week-long Easter

The advent of miniature tape recorders, the kind that are easily concealable on your person, puts ex

The formal, conscious and deliberate concealment of information presents inherent dangers to a free

WHITE HOUSE OBJECTIONS to trade bill provisions have focused much more on other items, but the trade

By age 58, Mr. Brown had labored in middle management at a large manufacturing company in the Northe