Commentary

AFTER YEARS OF DEBATE, Congress is close to passing a much-needed law to automate the paperbound Cus

U.S. officials aren't showing it publicly, but privately they are concerned about the competitive co

Consumers throughout the United States, especially those in Northeastern states far from the dusty g

Election-year politics have made "excessive" executive pay a hot issue. Critics have likened the arr

Back in the days when Roy Rogers was a cowboy and not a fast-food restaurant, young boys ran around

MOST ELECTRICITY in the United States is produced by regulated utilities, which also transmit that p

Over the past few years, Asean, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, has emerged as a key exp

MOUNTING PILES OF GARBAGE in the Netherlands, and diminishing space to bury it, have prompted a Drac

Confused by the currency turmoil in Europe? The flood of ink spent on it suggests that all that need

GERMANY WAS RIFE with turmoil last week, and not only in currency andfinancial markets. A da

WHY US JOBS WILL SHIFT TO MEXICOProf. Stefan H. Robock's opinion column Sept. 15 ("Why Plant

BILL CLINTON RECEIVED SOME GOOD NEWS Wednesday. Ron Carey, the energetic new president of the Teamst

In the bleak Depression winter of 1930-31, the leader of the U.S. Communist Party, William Z. Foster

For too long, opponents of a capital gains tax cut have sought to portray a lower tax rate as a boon

Despite the narrow vote in the French referendum in favor of the Maastricht Treaty, policy-makers mu

Japan is a very rich country, with average individual incomes among the highest in the world, but Ja

SPAIN'S FINANCE MINISTER, Carlos Solchaga, is in Washington this week tilting at windmills. So are t

IF THERE HAS BEEN A SILVER LINING in the demise of Eastern Airlines, Pan Am and other failed U.S. ca

THE HIGH HOPES for European union, forged last December in Maastricht, have given way to a sober mor

With President Bush getting ready to submit the North American free-trade agreement (Nafta) to Congr

Who is to blame for the recent currency crisis on European foreign exchange markets? While e

ARTICLES CONFUSED RATE MATTERSI am writing to clarify the Military Sealift Command's (MSC) p

TIMES HAVE BEEN TOUGH in the former Soviet Union the last few years, but thathasn't quelled

BEIJING IS TRYING to restore order to China's fledgling stock exchanges, which have been in chaos fo

HOW MUCH DRUG TESTING IS ENOUGH? Probably less than the Transportation Department requires now. More

At a Harvard teching hospital in Boston, the charge for an implantable cardiac defibrillator - a pac

Prospects for enactment of a new export control law this year are brightening again. Months

Scientists shuddered when Lyndon Johnson declared his interest in "what science could do for grandma

With private capital churning through Latin American markets at a rapid pace, economic stability in

It says right here in The Wall Street Journal that neither George Bush nor Bill Clinton can add, tha

Anyone who ships goods through U.S. ports or on U.S. waterways should be interested in legislation n

WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S Exchange Rate Mechanism now in tatters, Germany's powerful Bundesbank

DUBAI TRADE SHOW WAS A SUCCESSWe read with interest your article, "Kuwait Back in Business"

Bill Clinton's proposal to raise revenue from foreign companies in the United States by tightening t

UNDER SENSIBLE NEW RULES adopted this week, federal regulators will use a bank's capital reserves as

RADIOACTIVE WASTE is a gruesome legacy of the Cold War. In plants and laboratories across the countr

The commodity known as sugar has been in world surplus for decades. This year an extra 3 million met

The Chinese Communist Party once co-opted women by promising that equality would follow automaticall

GEORGE BUSH AND BILL CLINTON have proposed dramatically different health careplans, but they

Presidential campaigns are rarely the place to look for ideas that combine farsightedness and practi