Commentary

MEXICO'S HISTORIC ELECTION this Sunday is shaping up as the cleanest in its history. That hardly mea

Unless the Virgin of Guadalupe intervenes to prevent it, Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de Leon, presidential

FOR MANY AMERICANS, Latin America is still an economic backwater plagued by widespread poverty, runa

Mexico's 47.5 million registered voters go to the polls on Aug. 21 to elect a president, 96 senators

YOU CAN TAKE French-speaking Canadians out of Acadia, but . . . This month, for the first ti

Despite last week's stunning blow to the crime bill, President Clinton is still hammering on Congres

During last year's Nafta debate, the Clinton administration promised that free trade between Mexico

Last December Jacques Delors, then president of the European Commission, issued a white paper on "Gr

IF HARD WORK PAYS, Americans should have a bright future. Americans work longer hours than p

IT'S TAKEN 13 MONTHS, but the United States and Japan finally have reached a partial agreement in th

Lacking the compass of macroeconomic policy, the Japanese economy drifts in a vicious circle of yen

The universal health care plan that Congress is now debating would create an enormous new federal en

The GATT world trade agreement now before Congress is a remarkably strong document, the product of e

SEAFARERS' HOUSING: A YMCA PROJECTWe appreciate your fine "On the Move" profile of the Rev.

DESPITE THREATS to its crime and health bills, the Clinton administration is steadily movingthe GATT

It is August in Europe. Across the continent shops and restaurants are shuttered. The street

A bill providing new maritime operating subsidies for some U.S.-flag ships is running into more oppo

It is a common belief that U.S. service exports will offset the large and persistent U.S. merchandis

CHALK UP another victory for the bureaucracy. The French government has denied five aging Americans

The halcyon 1950s are alive and well at Japan's spick- and-span gas stations. Any American o

THE TOWN DUMP isn't what it used to be. Until the early 1980s, most household and businesswaste - pa

BIG CORPORATE MERGERS are all the rage, and railroads have joined the action. Three important rail d

WHERE HAS the Pepsi generation gone? Gone to Starbucks, every one - as Pepsi evidently has discovere

In the late 1980s, while interviewing a U.S. ambassador in Nicaragua at his office during the bloody

The Journal of Commerce recently printed an opinion article by former ICC Commissioner Gregory Walde

Paranoia is patrolling our borders, and U.S. politicians are keeping step. California Gov. P

In less than three years - on June 30, 1997 - Hong Kong, the unabashed capitalist enclave,will becom

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT transportation bills of the decade cleared Congress Monday withouta hitch.

CARTOON ON DOCTORS' INCOMES: NOT FUNNYI have never bothered to write to a publication before

A recent news story from the Associated Press suggests that disillusionment is setting in inGaza and

AFRICA'S MISERIES seem endless. Horrifying reports of disease and starvation are becoming sadly comm

Last Friday was a bad day on Wall Street. Stock and bond prices took a dive and interest rates rose

WINSTON LORD, the administration's Asia policy chief, restated America's ''staunch support"for admit

In Japan, where group-based culture is so strong that even salesmen within a companyare paid the sam

As the Haitian generals continue to block the return of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, democracy

THINK BIG ON FREE TRADE AGREEMENTSThe Yukon and Tierra del Fuego are the alpha and omega of

SLOWLY, PAINFULLY, Congress is moving ahead with a bill to implement the biggest trade deal in histo

When I first introduced the Employment Dispute Resolution Act in 1992, it was needed to ease the bur

This city has lost its raison d'etre, as it has done every August for the past 35 years when the Eur

Formal debate on health care legislation will begin this week in Congress, where Senate and House De