Commentary

PUTTING BRAKES ON MASS CONSUMPTIONAlthough you consistently advocate open competitio

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a hero of both President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich, campaig

Maw and Paw were airing themselves out on the front porch here the other day, sitting between the cl

CHINA'S BOOMING ECONOMY can't disguise its continuing repression of political and human rights. Sinc

America's decision to torpedo the international trade talks on financial services is a striking demo

Industrial production in the United States declined at an annual rate of 3.2 percent this spring. Th

FOREIGN SHIPBUILDING SUBSIDIES have been the bane of America's mostly unsubsidized shipyards for the

Picture yourself boarding a crowded bus or train in the United States andfinding that almost

TWO YEARS AGO, many customs brokers fought ferociously to stop a new government program called remot

OPPONENTS of the Uruguay Round trade deal said it would be used to attack U.S. health and safety law

A SCARY TRIP ON A NUCLEAR SHIPI read with some amusement Yuichiro Matsuo's July 10 o

The leaders of the European Union have become cantankerous of late, caught up in unseemly, undiploma

EVEN BY WASHINGTON'S STANDARDS, the debate on curbing federal regulations is shameless. Overheated r

Federal health and safety agencies are supposed to be in the business of saving lives. But working f

PROPOSED CUTS IN U.S. FOREIGN AID produce anguished cries that America is abdicating its responsibil

THE WORLD'S MOST SWEEPING privatization program is taking off in, of all places, remote Bolivia, and

American presidents as different as Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon and Carter shared a common frustratio

If you want to see the future of education, don't watch children in theaverage classroom. Wa

Maritime industry lobbyists hope a hearing Tuesday before a House subcommittee sheds light on a Clin

IT IS NOTHING NEW for free traders to attack America's protectionist anti- dumping laws. But when th

The American idiom has taken the English language into a smoky back room and beaten it to within an

In cyberspace the U.S. International Trade Commission claims to be "the government's think tank on i

THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT has thrown a wrench into the plans of Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom to

The confluence of international trade and antitrust policies presents governments in the United Stat

NOT SO FAST WITH JABS AT AMTRAKIra Rosenfeld's July 5 "Straight Talk" column contain

MEXICO was supposed to be a land of opportunity after the North American Free Trade Agreement took e

According to the World Bank, developing countries will require an additional $7 trillion during the

U.S. SHIPPING LINES are facing deregulation, but it is America's seaports that are screaming loudest

U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor is fond of blaming "free trade purists" for undermining his

The new budget resolution approved by Congress "assumes" the Commerce Department will be dismantled.

LAST WEEK'S RACKETEERING convictions of five former officers of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso

FOR A TIME THIS SPRING, it seemed like promising plans to create a Free Trade Agreement of the Ameri

A wise man once claimed that the main activity of government was correcting its own mistakes. Plans

The dream for many Britons is to move to France. And Provence, that fragrant land of waving lavender

GLOBAL ALLIANCES among aircraft makers are sprouting like spring flowers. The latest one involves Se

With his job on the line, John Major proved himself to be a much tougher and shrewder politician tha

Imagine you're in business and your biggest and most reliable customer, a notorious free-spender, on

Few people can argue that, after 25 years and more than $1 trillion spent to improve the nation's ai

BILL CLINTON PROTESTED the Vietnam War as a student. Today, as president, he will end that chapter i

RUSSIA'S SAGGING ECONOMY is finally showing signs of life. This spring, for the first time since 198