Commentary

JONES ACT DOESN'T HURT SEAWAY TRAFFICI am disappointed that you reprinted the Associated Pre

Canada's rebellious, French-speaking province of Quebec elected a government last month that is comm

Perhaps never again will the millions of European vacationers, truck drivers, day trippers and other

HONDA TO INCREASE EXPORTS FROM USTOKYO - Honda Motor Co. said last week that it plan

GREAT FLOODS are hard to predict, but their damage over time is as foreseeable as the sunrise. Every

The expectation of an another rate increase by the Federal Reserve has produced a loud chorus of "no

Struggling to help Russia solve its economic woes, American policy-makers grumble the world has neve

ECONOMIC REFORMS often seem to take a step backward for every two steps forward. Consider th

THE GATT TRADE PACT has become a political orphan, abandoned for now by lawmakers too cravento cast

In the future, Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts was explaining to a novice, every home and business (

Of the top 1,000 U.S. companies listed by Forbes magazine in 1980, half were no longer in business u

LIMITING SUPERFUND LITIGATIONWhile decrying the tax on insurers in the proposed Superfund Re

GOVERNMENT IS FILLED with programs that don't work well, including many tied to the U.S. shipping in

Many of the letters sent to the Customs Service these days involve the reorganization of the agency,

What should the United States do about immigration? In the abstract, it's hard enough. In reality, i

A year ago, President Clinton went before Congress and promised the nation a free lunch: a huge expa

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES finally may vote this week - perhaps as early as today - on the bill im

AMERICAN INGENUITY is alive and well. Consider Richard Cawley, who had the misfortune eight years ag

The trend toward freer world trade is becoming more expensive and complicatedbecause of inte

When President Clinton told the United Nations the United States would lift international sanctions

Europe's been getting a bad press lately after its leaders were hijacked into a brawl over the shape

SO MUCH FOR THE SOVEREIGNTY SCARE. For months now, opponents of the pending world trade agreement ha

This week's meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Madrid takes place on the 5

With Americans concerned about murders, robberies, rapes and muggings, the government is busy lookin

The bill authorizing $1 billion in new operating subsidies for ship lines may be stuck on a Senate s

President Clinton's version of Superfund reform is a perfect example of Uncle Sam throwinggood money

OF ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS that have emerged recently for revitalizing the World Bank, onestands out

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION, fighting mightily to save the Uruguay Round trade agreement from defeat

Earlier this week, about 150 Republican members of Congress and 200 Republican challengers signed a

FEAR OF FLYING grips millions of travelers every year, but as this week's European ferry accident pr

The meetings this week between Presidents Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin demonstrate the incredible

Action to remake the nation's health-care delivery system is ostensibly dead this year, given its la

PRESIDENT CLINTON, in another eleventh-hour save, is getting behind the Uruguay Round world trade pa

DISCRIMINATION against women in the workplace is nothing new, but among industrialized countries Jap

In the waning hours of the 103rd Congress, the Clinton administration is trying to rush through impl

SECRETS OF JAPAN'S BUSINESS SUCCESSThe titles of two articles in your Sept. 15 edition - "Be

Financial markets are braced for a shock when, as now expected, the United States imposes trade sanc

CHINA AND TAIWAN, at odds with each other for the past 45 years, are gradually learning towork toget

HEALTH REFORM is dead for now, and many Americans are justifiably relieved. Toward the endof that ma

Next week the U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes to confront one of the simplest but most vexing employme