Commentary

The federal government may be kicking the habit of subsidizing industries, but states and cities are

After a long delay, Congress is getting back to work on an important bill to reform the nation's ana

The book that is all the rage in France these days, ''The Economic Horror'' by Viviane Forrester, bl

ENCRYPTION POLICYSTRIKES A BALANCEYou recently printed two opinion pieces, ''Taking unconsti

When it comes to fiddling with the inflation numbers, legions of economists are willing to do the go

Recent public hearings on new national air quality standards pitted the compassionate ''public inter

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan cautioned Congress last week about ''the sharp rise in equit

A little-noticed but highly important international conference took place this past week in Amsterda

America's doctors are skilled at saving lives, but they are equally adept at saving something else:

In Tokyo this week, central bankers and finance officials from Asia and the United States will test

TRUCK CABOTAGE NOTALLOWED UNDER NAFTAA recent story was misleading concerning open borders u

There are two ways to amend the Constitution to require a balanced budget: the right way and the wro

Congress once again is attempting to pass the balanced budget amendment to the Constitution.

The Conservative Party is convinced privatization is a vote-winner. So, with a general election in B

History will rate China's Deng Xiaoping as the world's greatest communist leader.He's the on

The indignities and inconveniences that are built into air travel are now being joined by a high-tec

A new entrepreneurial age has dawned, thanks to forces as disparate as downsizing, restless retirees

A recent opinion article by Peter Tirschwell entitled ''Running aground on the Jones Act'' (Feb. 10,

The European Union should do more to attract investment from the rising Asian economies, starting wi

Britain's pound note was 200 years old last week. The first ''oncer'' and its short-lived brother, t

The leaders of the U.S. and Europe are dealing with their Helms-Burton problem like children, not st

The Commerce Department, which has been accused of stacking its foreign trade missions with heavywei

Labor unions have started to reap a return on the $35 million they spent to help Democrats in last y

Many of America's great cities grew up around ports. But today those ports are being neglected - a d

More and more U.S. cities are trying to buy themselves some aviation prestige by paying airlines to

South of the Rio Grande River, there's a saying: ''Mexico: So far from God, so close to the United S

Instead of a scrunched-up, one column headline, which is what you got in last Sunday's New York Time

The Federal Maritime Commission said this week that starting April 14, it will slap $100,000 fines o

Some members of Congress and human rights activists are pushing the Clinton administration to impose

The day Massachusetts bans goods from, say, Illinois made by a company doing business in Indonesia i

Whatever happened to the vaunted New Transatlantic Agenda of December 1995, in which President Clint

FINDING A BURIAL SPOTFOR NUCLEAR WASTEPresident Clinton says he opposes a bill to establish

If you care about open trade and free markets, mark Feb. 20 on your calendar in black. The United St

Hong Kong has waited on tenterhooks for years fearing the impact of Deng Xiaoping's death on the fut

Try as he may, President Clinton has not been able to twist the public's understanding of his tacky

In addition to dealing with scandals of its own making, the Clinton administration is busy defusing

BRAZIL'S DEFENSE BUDGETIS THERE FOR ALL TO SEEI read with great interest the opinion article

Is this, finally, the Year of the Americas? After a couple of years of hesitation, is the push for h

I never know whether to be amused or frustrated by the self-interested pleadings of America's welfar

Everyone knows Mexico has dirty cops, but the latest case of corruption involves an army general and