Commentary

When someone claims to be Jesus, it raises both suspicion and expectation. Ambivalence melts away an

"THIS LAND was made for you and me" - or so Woody Guthrie would have us believe, at least when it co

JAPANESE CONSUMERS, hit hard by recession, have a soft spot for Toys 'R' Us. The U.S.-based

Multimillion-dollar salaries and stock awards for America's top executives have stirred stinging cri

SOCIAL SECURITY IS PAID-UP INSURANCEI fail to comprehend, from your Feb. 4 editorial "Touchi

For most of America, Cuba seems today a half-remembered country, if that. Few, outside some

Local mom-and-pop bookstores are disappearing from the Japanese landscape. An upsetting television r

BRIAN MULRONEY's decision to resign as Canada's prime minister in June will cost the United States a

MANDATORY DRUG TESTING for workers in sensitive transportation jobs - those who fly planes, drive tr

President Clinton was quick to take credit for the decline in interest rates since he took office Ja

Ambitious and bold, the Clinton plan for invigorating industrial technology has triggered warnings o

THE LATEST ECONOMIC FIGURES from the Commerce Department offer a cornucopia of good news, not the le

Through little fault of its own, the European Community Commission has gone languid just when the co

President Clinton, in his Inaugural Address, provided hope the new administration will seek to forge

NO BASIS FOR RAISING MEXICAN WAGESRequiring that Mexico's minimum wage be gradually raised t

BILL CLINTON is still walking a tightrope on international trade. His first major speech on the subj

If the U.S. Customs Service can push Japan to make its customs agency process imports more efficient

Despite the heated commentary surrounding the three axes of President Clinton's State of the Union a

THE CORRUPTION and bribery scandal convulsing Italy is expanding by the day. Fully one-fourt

If President Clinton were really serious about reducing the deficit: * He would drop his eco

WHEN FEDERICO PENA, the new transportation secretary, meets with shipping officials this week, both

One does not have to be a despised member of America's ruling class, a greedy 1980s takeover bandit

It is, by now, conventional wisdom that the U.S. trade deficit will worsenbecause Europe and

TO HEAR THE BIG AIRLINES tell it, they are victims - victims of unfair foreign competition, unfair r

In the thousands of pages of text and supporting materials that comprise the North American free-tra

ECONOMIC RECOVERY is all around us, according to government figures due out today. Revised C

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY of an insurance company that can't vary its premiums according to its customers'

CUBA STAGED AN ELECTION Wednesday, but no one was expected to stay up late waiting for theresults.

In a series of articles summing up part of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "The test of a first

Preoccupied with political challenges in Europe and the Middle East and with economic competition fr

IN NO MOOD TO SACRIFICEI just heard our new big-spending president talk about everybody maki

U.S. voters chose Bill Clinton as president largely on the basis of his pledge ''to create jobs now

BILL CLINTON never met a public works project he didn't like. This week it's Al Gore's "data superhi

MOST AMERICANS would like to rely less on Social Security - if only the government would let them.

As President Clinton begins to grapple with his trade policies, he is confronted with the same two l

There's an old, bad joke about Old Europe that goes something like this: In heaven the Germa

For years, daily English lessons offered by television and radio networks have been a popular staple

AS THE U.S. EMBARGO against Vietnam drags on, American companies are falling hopelessly behind other

REBUILDING INFRASTRUCTURE is the centerpiece of the Clinton economic plan, but states and cities wit

The appointment of Carol Browner to head the Environmental Protection Agency was not well received b