Commentary

The food stalls are a bit grimy, with grease embedded in the aluminum countertops. The bang of the s

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

WHAT A DIFFERENCE a year makes in Moscow. Last fall, a hostile Russian Parliament was plotting to sa

British ferry companies have become so disturbed about the welfare of sheep, pigs and cattle shipped

WHAT WILL IMPROVE American education? It's not spending more money on schools, according to a study

This week brings a moment of truth for the Clinton administration's trade negotiators. They came int

When President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin meet today for their third summit, U.S. i

HOUSE MAJORITY LEADER Richard Gephardt deserves credit for being an early and consistent supporter o

TELEPHONE CUSTOMERS around the world may soon see international calling rates begin to fall.

If it were a deadly plague that is killing 3 million people a year, surely scientists would be mount

Trying to make the most of this December's Summit of the Americas, the Treasury Department isreporte

Russian President Boris Yeltsin will address top leaders of American business in New York today and

WHEN BORIS YELTSIN visits Washington next week to meet with President Clinton, he will be looking fo

"Don't even count on Social Security being there when you retire." This is the glib message being gi

Three policies are being pursued this year to revitalize the U.S. maritime industry. One is an expan

MARITIME REFORM IS FOUNDERING in the Senate. What began in March as an attempt to approve new ship s

Irony, which emerges often enough to sustain the suspicion that there is order in the cosmos, just d

WHO ARE MARITIME 'SPECIAL INTERESTS'?Richard L. Hill asserts that if pending maritime legisl

Trade negotiators are meeting in Washington this week in a final bid to resolve one of themost bizar

President Clinton is rumored to be considering a middle-class tax cut in the form of a $300child cre

"Now that the U.S. marshal has brought law and order to Dodge City, it is important that the United

One year ago Thursday, the nation was gripped by a transportation tragedy. In the early morning hour

With health care and legislation to ratify the Uruguay Round currently dominating the publicagenda,

Wall Street appears increasingly vulnerable to signals of impending inflationary pressure. Stocks, b

IN THE SPRINT to ratify a historic world trade agreement before Congress adjourns for the year, the

It is a curious fact of international institutions that top posts are assigned under a bizarre quota

RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS are daunting, but signs of life are everywhere. The latest comes from the

The great New England poet Robert Frost got it almost right. Eighty years ago, in the poem "Mending

It has been said that politics is the art of the possible, and, also, that all politics islocal. Wit

WHATEVER THE OUTCOME of President Clinton's military adventure in Haiti, this much is certain: Witho

MAKING AMTRAK MORE PRODUCTIVEYour Amtrak editorial ("Running a Railroad," Sept. 14) did not

AMERICA'S ANTITRUST COPS have been pounding a global beat this year. In the last three months, the J

The Fifty Years Is Enough Campaign is not planning to disrupt the 50th anniversary celebrations of t

Whatever the merits of his case, Douglas Hart deserves gratitude, and not justbecause he cha

White House planning for the December summit of Western Hemisphere leaders has been further set back

THE GREAT ETHANOL RUSE, EPA's plan to force refiners to mix ethanol in gasoline, may be unraveling.

The Clinton administration has decided to omit "fast track" negotiating authority from its legislati

HEALTH INSURANCE: CONSIDER THE CUSTOMERThere is a fundamental inequality in the current syst

All too seldom Congress rises to the occasion, puts gridlock aside and members of both parties find

ALASKA OIL SHOULDN'T BE EXPORTEDYour Sept. 9 opinion page article, "Lifting Alaska's Oil Exp