Commentary

A proposed federal rule that would reserve a fraction of the U.S. reformulated gasoline market for f

It is morning in Latin America. All over the continent, nations are acting to reignite growt

Japanese consumers are being treated to a sight they haven't seen in decades. In downtown Tokyo this

Mr. Clinton has become the first U.S. leader to announce an explicit technology strategy, founded on

THE HIDDEN SIDE of U.S. trade is about to see the light of day. For the first time, the federal gove

Geography can be used in international affairs to transmit an important message. President Clinton s

To be a German official operating within the European Union diplomatic framework is to be confronted

BILLIONS OF BARRELS of crude oil lie beneath the frozen tundra of Alaska's North Slope - a resource

THE U.S.-BRITISH aviation feud took a more civil turn last week. Although the two countries are stil

During the health-care reform debate, we often hear that the six in seven Americans who have insuran

Despite later U.S. denials, Motorola Inc. pushed hard for specific sales commitments in its recent n

Japan has agreed to settle the cellular telephone complaint after being threatened with sanctions un

President Clinton's decision to make "significant progress" in human rights the major criterion for

Antitrust laws, President Clinton tells Congress in his 1994 Economic Report, generally increase com

NEW TANKERS EXCEED SAFETY REQUIREMENTSWe read with an almost complete sense of mystification

AFRICA has long been considered an economic lost cause - not least by its own elites. While other de

TRY AS THEY MAY, members of Congress have a tough time keeping their debates dignified. Cons

Americans want good roads. Traditionally, they have paid for them through gasoline taxes that now av

MEXICO, heading toward a presidential election this August, has hit a difficult stretch. This week t

The Washington memory bank of acronymia is ever expanding. Two of the latest acronyms, kudos to the

Later this month, the U.S. Maritime Administration will publish regulations launching the National S

FRESH from his success in winning a $6 billion Saudi Arabian order for U.S. airplanes, Commerce Secr

The Chiapas Indian rebellion has irreversibly altered Mexico's political landscape. The insurgents,

Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's decision to lift the ban on imported rice is a heavy blowto rural

The name of the international pow-wow in Detroit this week was the "jobs summit." Like most big medi

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION has begun its inevitable retreat on China. Its ill- advised plan to force

PRESIDENT CLINTON'S Detroit "jobs summit" has concluded with - surprise! - no consensus on how to ta

MERCHANT MARINE'S LAST GASPMaritime Administrator Al Herberger's March 11 article, "Blueprin

The air in Brussels will be thick with irony this week as the European Union bidsto boost its member

This week the leaders of the major industrialized countries are attending a jobs summit inDetroit to

"The hypocrisy of Congress exempting itself from the laws it applies to others is so obvious that on

LOW-WAGE WORKERS are receiving the attention of world leaders, but it may be the wrong sort of atten

In the Texas panhandle and at four secret sites in Russia, an amazing effort is under way: The arms

In an incredible four weeks late last year, President Clinton pushed the North American FreeTrade Ag

PRESIDENT CLINTON today kicks off another of those big policy seminars he likes so much: atwo-day ta

THE CLINTON administration may have inherited Nafta from George Bush, but the president seems determ

Steel industry executives will be watching an International Trade Commission vote Thursday on whethe

President Clinton this week sent Congress a plan to ensure that this nation will continue to have a

IT'S NOT EASY dismantling a socialist economy, as events this week in France show. The government of

THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM serves the nation well, but it doesn't connect enough of the country t