Commentary

On Aug. 28, 1996, President Clinton announced that for the first time in its history, the Food and D

Now that the initial fever surrounding the tobacco settlement has subsided, health experts have exam

Sure, United Airlines did a major survey and found that business travelers are disgruntled and agita

For many environmentalists, biotechnology conjures up unsettling images of killer tomatoes and mutan

The Surface Transportation Board has a duty to safeguard shippers when railroads merge, but does it?

The Bangkok authorities have finally approved plans for the construction of the much-needed new airp

Major railroads were scrambling on Capitol Hill last week to fend off a Democratic proposal that

AMTRAK IS CHANGINGTO A SENSITIVE RAILROADIt is a shame that James E. Coston's support for ra

Although Bill Clinton has drawn consistently lukewarm notices at the ballot box - he sneaked into th

What happened to the Rust Belt? After being written off by many analysts, the Midwest has staged a r

French Premier Lionel Jospin was right in rejecting the Communists' suggestion to prohibit layoffs a

China's elderly leaders don't go in much for tossing beach balls or frolicking in the surf during th

LONG ISLANDERS SUPPORTOVERHAUL OF UTILITYI was surprised to read the July 18 article entitle

Recently, some detractors of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 1997 have made some outrageous claims

Several years ago, Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn asked, ''What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know?'' Their an

As far as politics go, the balanced-budget agreement the White House and Congress have struck is a w

The recently concluded battle between Boeing and the European Union over Boeing's merger with McDonn

Professor Rudiger Dornbusch, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, proposes that Mexico ''do

When Congress imposed the federal 55 mph speed limit in 1974, it did so to save lives. The argument

The soaring hopes of the United Nations' 1992 Rio Earth Summit plummeted to earth recently as the wo

The United States and 11 of its trading partners have untangled a long-running dispute over how to c

For the first time in its history, London will have an elected mayor. Under a proposal unveiled by P

In the year ended June, the U.S. Treasury extracted a record $1.6 trillion from American taxpayers,

FOREIGN INVESTMENTBENEFITS US ECONOMYRecent foreign investments in American shipping, shipbu

Economists are still digging at the roots of the currency crisis in Southeast Asia, but governments

Since the time of Adam Smith, economists have generally argued that free economies will be productiv

The long and contentious history of the Canada-U.S. Pacific salmon relationship hit a crescendo when

Russia's sale of a 25 percent stake in the state's telephone giant, Svyazinvest, is a good move. But

Bill Gates has created tens of thousands of jobs, dramatically improved the productivity of computer

Ages ago - 1986 to be exact - there was a movement to make the Internal Revenue Code fairer and simp

SUBSIDIES, CIVILITYAND MIKE TYSONYour July 16 opinion page included a column by an official

Rapid improvements in the information sector offer the potential for a new medium for the delivery o

SOLUTION FOR AMTRAK:CAPITAL TRUST FUNDAfter working for years with Dr. Thomas D. Larson, coo

When I was a high school student in 1970 my friends and I collected signatures petitioning Congress

Like druids before an ancient stone monument, hundreds of anxious West Berliners faced the graffiti-

The trans-Atlantic furor over the proposed merger of Boeing and McDonnell Douglas, and a recent pric

The midsummer business news - solid growth without inflation, soaring stocks and profits amid minima

International trade has become the newest and most insidious way for criminals to launder their dirt

The European Union isn't making many friends by its aggressive use of anti-dumping laws. While helpi

Legislation that would expand the North American Free Trade Agreement is lurking just below the alre