Commentary

Cotton is king again in Congress. Not since Sunny Jim Eastland of Mississippi and other long

The Western democracies may have "won" the ideological struggle with aggressive communism that domin

WASHINGTON may soon start to ease controls on exports of high-powered computers, a move that is long

The World Bank's campaign for continued U.S. funding apparently has paid off. The U.S. Senate has ju

THE LOWLY BANANA is getting some high-level attention in Washington. Last week U.S. Trade Representa

A CLOSER LOOK AT THE JONES ACTI read with great interest your Sept. 12 article, "Hog

DON'T WEAKEN NAFTA DISPUTE SETTLEMENTI wish to respond to the Sept. 8 opinion article, "Fix

As surely as baseball fans congregate each spring on Landsdowne Street behind Boston's Fenway Park o

SHIPPING LINES must be wondering if regulators in the Clinton administration are all reading from th

SEN. MITCH McConnell, R-Ky., models himself on the great lawmakers of the past. Based on a bill he r

U.S. trade officials insist that their South Korean counterparts remained convinced up to the deadli

THE RECORD ON FRANK LORENZOYour Sept. 11 editorial, "The Lorenzo Inquisition" (Page

A YEAR after launching a loud campaign to force Japan to buy more U.S.-made cars and car parts, the

The budget debate ringing through the halls of Congress provides eloquent testimony of lawmakers' di

THREE BIG RAILROADS met in Omaha last week to carve up the freight-hauling business in the Western U

If you did any boating this summer, you probably noticed the dark side of our attraction to the sea:

President Ernesto Zedillo says the worst of Mexico's economic crisis is over. So where's the applaus

IGNORE NEWT GINGRICH'S threat to force the government into default. It won't happen. Forget, too, Bi

THE COMMERCE DEPT. AND COMPETITIVENESSI read with dismay your Sept. 22 editorial, "O

JAPAN'S finance ministry took an important step Wednesday to diffuse a problem that could easily get

One of the most delightful essays in the English language is Charles Lamb's ''A Dissertation Upon Ro

THE HOUSE of Representatives has plenty to do, what with a national debt approaching $4.8 trillion,

CANADIAN OFFICIALS are turning up the heat on Quebec, whose citizens go to the polls for a secession

The Clinton administration is busy congratulating itself for achieving a ''soft landing" in the econ

U.S. and Japanese officials meeting in Manhattan today are expected to renew what many in Japan see

Colin L. Powell's autobiography, "My American Journey," is inspirational. Unsurprisingly, it has bec

COPYING and selling pirated cassettes, videos and other intellectual property is a thriving business

The most recent report on foreign exchange trading by the Bank for International Settlements shows t

INDONESIA'S HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSESEdward Masters downplays Indonesia's egregious human

The Suez and Panama canals had difficult, messy births, but today they are vital arteries of world t

ANOTHER KEY PIECE in America's expanding aviation network has fallen into place. The United States l

International negotiators gathered last week in Geneva to further develop a system of global environ

INDIA HOPES TO BECOME an Asian Tiger, but clawing foreign investors isn't the way to do it. Last mon

DON'T USE HIGHWAY FUNDS FOR AMTRAKThe title of Rip Watson's Sept. 15 "Inside Talk" c

Rivalry between two leading Republican presidential contenders - Sens. Robert Dole, Kan., and Phil G

CONGRESS may not be showing much enthusiasm for trade issues, but on one important project it has st

Most government "solutions" fail because they are either flawed in theory or botched in practice.

RON BROWN is no stranger to political combat, but his skills at trench warfare are being tested this

At a Republican rally in Congress last week, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R- Ga., put his colleagues

TIME AFTER TIME, Republicans are proving to be their own worst enemies. The House Agriculture Commit