Commentary

The Soviet Union is metamorphosing. General Secretary Gorbachev, backed by Russia's post-World-War-I

DESPITE SOME RECENT statistical evidence of an economic pickup, many analysts still expect one more

THIS YEAR OR NEXT, Congress must deal with shipper complaints arising out of the Staggers Rail Act

UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE TAX REFORM BILL sliding down the congressional home stretch has been affecting

Suspicion between the world's two major superpowers seems to be on the rise with tensions mounting o

Late in the evening on Saturday, Aug. 16, in the final hours of their negotiations, the chairmen of

LEGISLATION FOR THE PUBLIC SALE of the government's 85 percent interest in the Consolidated Rail Cor

Two years ago this month, Canada's Tories were swept to power with a lopsided majority in an electio

THE BLUSTER coming from the world's trade ministers as they prepare for the upcoming General Agreeme

As the nuclear-free promise of the Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars," founders on awesome

Are the Japanese in the future going to use their relatively new-found economic power wisely? Lots o

The U.S. trade deficit in July, announced in the last week of August, was at a record level. The new

Debt. It touches everyone. But, to paraphrase Mark Twain, while everybody talks about debt, nobody d

THE MASTER CONTRACT AGREEMENT reached in Washington last week between the International Longshoremen

The Australian Design Centre's prime location, close to the harbor in the fashionable Rocks area of

THERE MAY BE A BRIGHT SIDE to the arrest and subsequent charging with espionage in the Soviet Union

PHONE CALLS, 182 of them over a six-month period, were made to sexually explicit recordings from the

THE SUSPICIONS OF A CYNICAL TAXPAYER have been confirmed. The tax "reform" effort in Washington is a

ORGANIZED LABOR CALLS A PERSON who crosses a picket line a scab, an ugly expression to describe wha

Elizabeth Hanford Dole, transportation secretary, finally has acknowledged what has been obvious for

At this writing, a fellow American reporter, Nicholas Daniloff, is sitting in a Moscow cell charged

This resort community is famous for its downhill skiing, its proximity to Yellowstone National Park

Jennifer Dawn Levin died in Central Park in Manhattan at about 5 a.m. on Aug. 25. She was 18. Rober

EAST GERMAN FARMERS HAVE A PROBLEM. When the farmers stoop to tend their crops, their pants slide d

Congress Back; D eficit Still There THE EARLY RHETORIC when Congress returns today from its

The United States is promoting a set of practical proposals for the prevention of drug smuggling by

THE 99th CONGRESS RETURNS to Washington today with four work weeks left before its scheduled adjourn

U.S. companies complain bitterly at supposed barriers erected by the Japanese government against U.S

CSX CORP.'S PROPOSED ACQUISITION of Sea-Land Corp., now before the Interstate Commerce Commission, w

The spectacular recent exploration of the interior of the Titanic by a self- propelled robot camera

Nuclear energy has nearly ceased to be a plausible source of energy for our nation's future. This st

President Reagan's three-year-old program to spur U.S. investments in Caribbean nations and their ex

WHAT CONSTITUTES A RAILROAD? Is it the track, the so-called right of way that railroads own? Is a co

It's irony time again. The issue today is South Africa and how the U.S. Congress proposes to help er

Imagine rock stars throwing a benefit performance to back a ballot initiative on land use. O

It is easy to misjudge the economy's prospects when things are close to the brink of major change, a

In its effort to rein in the federal government's huge budget deficits, Congress finds itself runnin

Discussions in the European Community these past few months have once again, and indeed for the umpt

THE DECISION TO BUILD another space shuttle, and thereby have a shuttle based on the West Coast, is

IN THE 159-YEAR HISTORY of The Journal of Commerce, its roster has included some distinguished econo