Commentary

Peter Sutherland, the new director general of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, is casting

Bill Clinton's drive to tame health-care costs must contend with a perverse statistical omen fresh o

CALIFORNIA lawmakers are proposing a compromise in a decades-long dispute with Britain over the way

A battle is shaping up in the House over a Senate-passed measure that would require risk and cost an

GERMAN CHANCELLOR Helmut Kohl's irresponsible support of French efforts to scrap a critical U.S.-Eur

NEEDED: A DEBATE ON MARITIME POLICYI'd like to congratulate Don Becker for his Aug. 18 "Publ

William Bywater, president of the International Union of Electronic Electrical Salaried Machine & Fu

On a trip to Vietnam last month, an associate and I had dinner our first night at Le Beaulieu, an el

IT'S TWO STEPS FORWARD, one back, in drawn-out reconciliation efforts between China and Taiwan.<

MONOPOLY HAS ITS PRIVILEGES. It also has responsibilities, as the Postal RateCommission remi

Eight years ago, Intel Japan K.K. President William O. Howe was on a sales call in Nagoya trying to

The vast, ponderous machinery of federal spending ground to a halt this summer for the first time in

ROMANIA DESERVES MFN STATUS NOWMilan Ruzicka's recent arguments against granting most-favore

The French Mediterranean city of Marseilles is making headlines this summer for all the wrong reason

FOR A HINT of things to come in the U.S. Social Security system, consider new pension laws enacted l

GIVE AL GORE CREDIT. The vice president's government reform commission could have been another timid

The environmental and labor side agreements to the North American free-trade agreement should be ana

The search for ways to reduce government's cost and scope, which prompted the recent shouting over m

Keep it simple, stupid. That brutally frank directive is good advice in any number of situat

The debate on China policy is likely to grow as the two sides - those who emphasize human rights and

U.S. COMPUTER AND SEMICONDUCTOR companies got a small break last week from the Commerce Department.

IS MEXICO'S LIMITED DEMOCRACY reason enough to hold up the North American free-trade agreement?<

IS THERE ANYONE who's really pleased with cable television? Rates keep rising, service is spotty and

FORMULATING A CHINA POLICY is never simple. On Wednesday, the Clinton administration imposed limited

Since the West Bank and Gaza were sealed off from Israel after a series of stabbings by Palestinians

Russia's successful transformation into a stable democracy and free-market economy is essential to w

Aviation experts are nearing consensus that the air traffic control system needs to be removed from

FEW BUSINESSES depend more on efficient government services than airlines. Pilots require Federal Av

After two rounds of storming the European Community's monetary Bastille - its system of fixed but ad

REOPENING THE MARITIME DEBATEI applaud publisher Don Becker's comments ("Publisher's

U.S. POLITICIANS are quick to complain of Japanese trade practices, but it's worth remembering that

The conversation came near the end of this summer's vacation at the beach, on a day given over to si

On orders from the Clinton administration, the Federal Reserve dumped large amounts of Japanese yen

BILL CLINTON traveled to the Silicon Valley in February to pledge his personal support for U.S. high

For much of this spring and summer, a private argument raged around President Clinton that had all t

The rapid opening of Mexico's national oil giant, Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), to the outside world

It is a damp October afternoon in Bonn and after a glass of wine, or perhaps two, the dapper German

"The Broken Window Fallacy" is unknown to most logicians, but to American free marketeers it sums up

A MERCHANT MARINE REQUIRES UPKEEPI am tired of the misrepresentations made by some of your r

HAVE YOU EVER MARVELED at the amazing staying power of special interest handouts such as the mohair