Commentary

WHEN THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN discuss their trade imbalance, U.S. officials complain of chummy Ja

Official Washington suddenly has awakened to the fact that the Treasury deficit this year will be f

WE'VE SEEN PLANS for Soviet economic reform come and go. The most promising proposal, the "500-Day

Early in the Persian Gulf unpleasantness, a Middle East expert named Fouad Ajami kept making sense i

The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center has issued "a backgrounder." Across the paper

MEXICAN PRESIDENT Carlos Salinas isn't usually considered one of the world's top environmentalists.

LEAHY BILL WEAKENS FOOD SAFETYYour article "Pesticide Export Issue Heats Up in Congress" (Ap

On April 15th a new international organization made its debut. The European Bank for Reconstruction

DELIVERING MAIL ON TIME is a constant challenge for the Postal Service. To help meet that goal, the

Jacques Delors is arguably the most intriguing man in Europe. To be sure, Europe is a very large pl

THE FINGER OF BLAME for soaring health care costs always points to doctors' high malpractice insuran

THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION is expected to recommend this week that Congress scrap the law r

The American Medical Association fired its big guns, set off its bells and whistles, turned out its

The Department of Defense has been widely praised for its role in mobilizing men and materiel for Op

THE GREAT DEBATE over President Bush's request for an extension of his fast- track trade negotiating

How quickly things change. A mere five years ago, the United States was preoccupied with the grandeu

IT'S NOT ALL THAT OFTEN that industries clamor for federal regulation. But food processors want the

PROVIDING THE SOVIET UNION WITH CREDITS to buy food, Sen. Bill Bradley said Wednesday, would make th

The premise of airline deregulation was that competition could be relied on to maintain adequate ser

An information gap exists between the United States and Japan. It is something more profound than ju

CONSOLIDATED RAIL CORP. dominates railroad transportation in the Northeast, a sometimes uncomfortabl

INTERMODAL FLEXIBILITY FOR TRANSPORTATIONYour editorial, "One Step Backward" (May 6) correct

AFTER MONTHS OF HEATED debate, two congressional committees paved the way Tuesday for thestart of fr

The idea that the current recession would go away quickly has left sooner than the recession itself.

Polish President Lech Walesa frequently voices frustration that the West is slow in welcoming Poland

MAYBE IT'S JUST BLUSTER, but Japanese business leaders say they won't bend to U.S. demands for trade

THE IDEA OF ACCEPTING TURKEY into the European Community has been dismissed as premature and unreali

With gunfire stilled in the Persian Gulf, a tiny fleet of four Japanese wooden-hulled minesweepers a

The "doctor glut," one of those perennial non-problems of American society, is in the news again, wi

As the nation's economic recovery takes shape this summer, significant changes in the landscape are

THAI TEXTILES STORY MISSES THE POINTYour report "Thailand Uses a Loophole to Boost Its Texti

In its haste to inject more pricing competition into the trucking industry, the Interstate Commerce

Last Friday marked the 10th year anniversary of French President Francois Mitterrand's rise to power

COMPETITION IS INCREASING in almost every industry, even in those traditionally viewed as monopolies

Forgotten in the uproar over the the proposed U.S.-Canada-Mexico talks for a North American free tra

The Gulf War created a new lexicon for describing the geopolitical fallout in the Middle East. Comme

REP. SAM GIBBONS IS FED UP with foreign governments that subsidize their commercial shipbuilders, an

U.S. CONSUMERS COULD SAVE an estimated $20 billion this year, if the House follows the Senate's lead

Business groups hope Congress will take some additional steps this year to help U.S. industry compet

Logging wars are raging from the Philippines to Minnesota, from British Columbia to Brazil. The fore