Commentary

Consciously or unconsciously, the other branches of government have come to rely on judges to avoid

The trade official points out the window of his 31st-floor office and proclaims: There's no need to

The scale may be far more modest, but the shock waves are being felt just the same. The case of Geo

AT THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT these days Germany bashing is all the rage. Officials at Treasury

Patrick Buchanan, the president's master speech writer and keen-witted conservative, had a slightly

BACK IN 1888 when George Eastman decided on a name for his fledgling camera and photographic equipme

There is in this country a very serious debate raging with respect to the current system of civil ju

If the railroad industry can get through the present, Stephen Ailes, former president of the Associa

THERE IS LITTLE COMFORT in the current crisis surrounding U.S. shipments of arms to Iran, but there

Arguably, this month is one of the all-time low points for the Reagan administration. First

The Federal Budget Ballet Begins MANUEVERS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN, both within and outside the R

IN THE RECENT ELECTION, 69 percent of those casting ballots voted against creating a tax district fo

AND NOW, THE IRONY OF ALL IRONIES. Ivan Boesky, we learn, was permitted to sell off a good chunk of

The peculiar preliminary rituals of Mexico's presidential campaign have entered their most public ph

President Corazon C. Aquino's body politic is under attack from both within and without. The governm

THERE IS A GREAT DEAL to be said about the new contracts of the International Longshoremen's Associa

Former President Richard M. Nixon recently paid a private visit to Moscow. Apparently he met with so

AFTER FOUR YEARS of debate and compromise between parents' groups, physicians and pharmaceutical man

The Reagan administration is doing a study. It is pulling all stops, says an official, to find ways

Ten years ago there was tremendous concern in Taiwan about what would happen if and when the United

TO HEAR THE WHITE HOUSE tell it, the Red Sox won the Series - or something like that. The ad

The third part of New York state's reform legislation relating to commercial liability insurance cov

IVAN BOESKY has just given a reprieve to corporate America. In agreeing to settle Securities and Exc

The second prong of the New York Legislature's attempt to try to provide incentives to the insurance

When the secretary of Transportation sits down with her senior staff, there is an empty chair for th

It is a city of hope, a city of contradictions, a city of dreams. In countless irrepressible, pulsat

NEAR THE END of September last year, finance ministers from the five leading industrial countries -

WITH A SWEEPING TAX REFORM now in place in the United States, the pressure has increased sharply for

UNISYS, the new corporate name of the combination of Burroughs Corp. and Sperry Corp., a $10 billion

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's crusade for "popular capitalism with its naked appeal to financia

Risk arbitrage is not a profession for the faint of heart, Moira Johnston says. She quotes the fall

With the adjournment of the New York Legislature early in July and the signature of Gov. Mario Cuomo

JAMES G. DUNAIF, a New Yorker who writes a Letter to the Editor to us a couple times a month, passed

WHEN THE SOVIETS launched the Sputnik satellite in the 1950s, they took a great American idea and be

Driving down a country road at 70 miles an hour my wife suddenly shouts, ''Look:" I slam on the bra

PRESIDENT REAGAN'S POCKET VETO of the maritime authorization bill may not have been a total surprise

AN AUSTRALIAN SUGAR CANE FARMER who lost his arm after being mauled by his pet crocodile pleaded tha

The U.S. Maritime Administration last month published a report, Inventory of American Intermodal Equ

Ocean containership transportation is going through some real tough times. Some blame the problem o

The latest figures from Washington's official scorekeepers show that thePentagon controls nearly 75