Commentary

The rancorous battle between the Clinton administration and the Federal Reserve over who should regu

IT'S KNOWN as the "C" word, and it drives Washington's business and economic policies like nothing e

With the Japanese and U.S. governments at odds over trade in telecommunication equipment, the Clinto

If what's going on here is what the world means by progress, please stop the world. I want to get of

The stated mission of the Federal Reserve System, from its inception in 1913, has always vastly exce

Michael Heseltine is back in the running. Britain's most charismatic politician - nicknamed

IN MOST WAYS, the nations of the European Union are as modern and advanced as those anywhere. In mos

THE BAD NEWS on CFCs - chemical compounds believed to deplete the Earth's protective ozone layer - j

The big question in space politics is whether Congress will sensibly kill the space station with one

Since the 1960s, U.S. policy-makers have sought an opportunity to foster a transition to democracy i

A bill to help workers left without protective benefits when large carriers sell lines to smaller op

Approval of the Uruguay Round trade agreement faces a difficult procedural obstacle in Congress: com

AMERICAN INDUSTRY is nearly unanimous in its support for the new GATT world trade deal, a happy deve

IF YOU WANT TO BUY groceries - or just about anything else - in Germany during most evenings and wee

The Labor Department's Commission on the Future of Worker-Management Relations is working on proposa

Throughout the great debate on health reform, the Canadian system invariably gets dragged in. Anyone

American businesses have started to do something most of them have never done in their history: asse

BARELY THREE MONTHS after embracing the GATT world trade pact, President Clinton is taking a step in

The skies are brightening for air cargo carriers around the world. Officials in Europe and Asia are

Others hint at it, but it took Richard C. Ill to say it: the MSA is dead. Mr. Ill, who heads

AN ANGRY BUZZ FROM AMERICA'S BEEKEEPERSYour Jan. 6 editorial, "Honey of a Deal" (Page 6A), r

WHEN GOVERNMENT tries to operate more efficiently, special interests can be counted on to cry foul.

EUROPE, which is enduring its deepest recession in a generation, has something to celebrate this wee

NO ONE WINS in a strike, especially one that idles hundreds of thousands of workers in a country alr

OH, THOSE PESKY foreign names. It all seemed too much for White House staffers, who botched the name

As the Clean Air Act unfolds, it becomes increasingly clear the law has unleashed a Byzantine bureau

President Clinton, like President Bush before him, faces a basic challenge: a slowdown in the rate o

Amid the glittering storefronts of the Ginza, the pricey nightspots of Roppongi and the quiet elegan

Environmental groups are claiming solidarity in their rejection of the final agreement of the Urugua

Forget, for the moment, all these stories saying President Clinton's health- care overhaul is meetin

WHO SAYS it takes sex and violence to sell recordings and films on the mass market? Consider the une

CALL IT DEMOCRACY'S REVENGE. Boris Yeltsin's state of the union speech last week had somethi

Ah, the French. What is it about them that the Anglo-Saxon world finds so infuriating? Certa

Undaunted by their loss in a similar lawsuit over the North American Free Trade Agreement, environme

Cuba's transition to a market economy and a democratic government already has begun, and it will acc

REPEAL SUPERFUND'S LIABILITY SCHEMEYour Feb. 17 editorial, "Cleaning Up Superfund,"

TO SAY HANDS HAVE BEEN WRINGING in London since Bill Clinton became president would be to exaggerate

IT WON'T BE LONG NOW before Washington grants banks a privilege long enjoyed by hamburger chains, vi

PAPERWORK REDUCTION FOR OCEAN TARIFFS?I wish the people who prepare ocean tariffs had to use

Not content with trying to run the American economy, President Clinton and his fellow would-be plann