Commentary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Pacific shipping lines that carry most U.S.-Asia trade are taking steps to head off a major Federal

The recent voyage of the British-registered cargo ship Pacific Pintail from France to Japan marks a

Stopping Overweight ContainersYour June 2 editorial on overweight containers is seri

Established as a federal agency in 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority may play the key role in adv

The U.S. merchant marine is fighting for its life. Faced with the prospect of the entire U.S. flag c

In 1974, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries raised the price of crude oil from $3 a b

RONALD REAGAN tried unsuccessfully to kill Amtrak during the 1980s. Today, two groups that would lik