Commentary

In the next few weeks, the Clinton administration will make a momentous decision on the future of re

The tests from Medicare's annual checkup have come back, and the prognosis is not good. As the gover

For about a year now, the American maritime industry has watched efforts to repeal the Jones Act, a

Let me ask you a personal question: If you were a car, what model would you be? Now do not be put of

Myanmar's military rulers seem bent on making fu tile gestures toward reconciliation with the West,

Trade disputes between the United States and its North American neighbors are nothing new. What is n

Boone Pickens overstated the case - but not by much - when he asserted that chief executives who own

U.S. goods and services exports in 1995 soared by nearly 12 percent, the biggest year-to-year gain i

LABOR IS NOT OPPOSEDTO EXPANDING TRADEIn his June 27 column, ''Free trade, free choice'' (Pa

If the Jones Act is the godsend its beneficiaries say - if it provides jobs, protects seamen, suppor

An unfortunate thing sometimes happens when I go out to dinner with my wife and friends. At some poi

Four days after two Delta Airlines passengers died in a runway accident, no one is asking the govern

Former Colorado Gov. Richard Lamm says he will seek the presidential nomination of Ross Perot's Refo

For 50 years, a cruel and arbitrary line divided Europe. On one side of that line, people came toget

ALAMEDA CORRIDOR:DEEP IN DEBTThe ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles have established an out

Last week's approval of the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific railroad merger was a perfect good-news,

Sometimes Quebec revolutions are actually good for business.Take the quiet revolt now under

Last Monday marked the 64th anniversary of the low of the Dow Jones industrial average during the Gr

Postal workers celebrated their employer's 25th anniversary last week with nationwide picketing. The

The feel-good mood lasted little more than a week.Any hopes Prime Minister John Major may ha

It's time once again for the monthly ''solution bundle,'' a listing of things you can stop worrying

''They teach my children in Spanish in school so they can be busboys and waiters. I teach them in En

From its first fumbling efforts to talk the yen up against the dollar, the Clinton administration ha

United Nations officials at a climate change conference in Switzerland criticized ''industrial lobby

INSENSITIVE TALKABOUT TRUCK SIZESI read with almost total disbelief the callousness Ed Emmet

Congress seems to have decided that unilateral economic sanctions are the solution to all foreign po

President Clinton will allow the Helms-Burton Cuban sanctions law to take effect, despite pleas to w

Democratic and Republican legislators alike can rejoice when the American people act cooperatively a

Of all the economic theories that gave the dismal science its gloomy reputation, surely the most dep

Big mergers spark big opposition, and the pending deal between the Union Pacific and Southern Pacifi

The real cost of corporate downsizing does not show up on the bottom line. Indeed, its far-reaching

MORE VIEWS, MOREDEBATE ON JONES ACTYour coverage of the recent hearing before the House Subc

During the 1920s, H.L. Mencken observed that the only part of the Bill of Rights not violated by the

SHIPBUILDERS NEEDGOVERNMENT SUPPORTAs an advocate of the revitalization of the U.S. maritime

If this Congress had a public mandate, it was to lower taxes. That didn't happen, which is sad enoug

Executives in the United States are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with re-engineering, the wide

Freedom to Farm, the legislation signed into law earlier this year, is the most sweeping change in U

Two hundred and twenty years ago, the colonies that were to become the United States of America decl

The European Union is about to launch a probe into airline linkups between the United States and Eur

Last month's soccer hooliganism after England's loss to Germany may have come as a surprise to some,