Commentary

Two hundred and nineteen years after its founding, the United States still has not come togrips with

Last month's Summit of the Americas in Miami filled a void in U.S. trade policy, putting to rest fea

Thanks partly to the Republican revolution in Congress, America is engaged in a great national debat

When the Latin debt crisis erupted back in 1982, financial gurus soon explained why Americans should

ORGANIZED LABOR has had its travails; unions today claim only 11 percent of the private U.S. work fo

THE BATTLE over dredging the nation's ports has dragged on for more than 15 years. Last month, a fed

Throughout the 1990s, hardly a month has passed without some U.S. company announcing layoffs. AT&T,

As Congress considers the future of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the way transportation is

Should $100 received courtesy of a lucky streak on Wall Street be taxed any differently from $100 th

FOR THE REPUBLICANS, the easy part is over. They have officially occupied the House of Representativ

Barge lobbyists are breathing a little easier in the new anti-tax climate here: Most don't expect th

Mexico's present crises are less a judgment on the leadership skills of its new president than on th

NUCLEAR SHIPMENTS RAISE SAFETY ISSUESAs the author of the study reviewing the safety

WHEN the Interstate Commerce Commission disappears later this year, its most important responsibilit

Caesars and generals returning to Imperial Rome following military triumphs assigned husky-voiced yo

The cost of processing and conveying information will consume a steadily growing fraction ofevery bu

Why bother flying off to the Caribbean, Guam or Wingo Dingo for your beach vacation when you could s

The United Nations Environment Program is facing growing competition for the mantle of U.N. leadersh

WITH ALL THE INTEREST in new free trade agreements - in the Pacific Rim, in the Western Hemisphere a

The collapse of the Mexican peso caught almost everybody off guard. Initially, renewed political unr

IT'S NOT A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR in Mexico, where the government this week is launching an austerity p

Ports play an essential role in the U.S. economy, defense and environment. They meet the demand for

PRESIDENT CLINTON and Republicans in Congress once again are on a collision course over U.S.trade po

Even as the European Union expands north into most of Scandinavia, it is suffering a crisis of confi

The more we listen to current commentaries on economic developments, the more we're remindedof the c

A SIMPLE QUESTION FOR SEN. GRASSLEYIn your Dec. 13 edition you quoted Sen. Charles G

Last July, at the seven-power economic summit in Naples, President Clinton proposed something tentat

After 25 years of communist rule, Vietnam is rapidly moving from the shadows of socialism and into t

AIRLINES HAVE A TALENT for marketing: frequent flyer programs, hotel vacation packages and fly-drive

An idea for a new sales tax is spreading at the state level. Called the Advance Disposal Fee, it is

SOME OF THE PRESSURE on Mexico's beleaguered currency eased this week on news of a possible internat

The recently concluded economic and trade Summit of the Americas was notable not only for who was, b

To: THE CHIEF. From: Chieflet, policy planning staff.Re: The economo-political reality.<

SOME PEOPLE'S PLANS for the new year are truly bold. Consider Stuart Eunson, a 27-year-oldAmerican,

AIRLINE SERVICE between the United States and Canada is about to take off. After 20 years ofrestrict

One of the persistent Clintonian themes of the 1994 campaign still endures: If ''it's the economy, s

I suppose that after this piece another invitation to a sumptuous dinner at the splendidlyappointed

Social Security is racing toward a cliff. The system is at war with itself. As the pool of s

Next year the United States celebrates the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. With that in

WHO'S AFRAID of Bugs Bunny? Otherwise levelheaded adults in the Belgian government, who have been tr