Commentary

A PROVOCATIVE NEW REPORT from the Worldwatch Institute raises a claim straight out of the 1970s: In

THERE ARE FEW SURPRISES in the Justice Department's new draft guidelines for applying antitrust law

On May 6 the management of Texas Air Corp. filed a $1.5 billion lawsuit against the two unions repre

ODDS ARE RISING against Congress' approving the U.S.-Canadian trade pact before September. T

MCCARRAN REPEAL WILL HURT, NOT HELPFor a journal of commerce that publishes some reasonably

IF SOMETHING'S UNDESIRABLE, prohibit it. After using that approach against the ocean disposal of sew

A funny thing happened on the way to the White House. Ideology died. The liberal-conservativ

Transportation planners face two very different and virtually intractable dilemmas. The first, urban

A SPECTER IS HAUNTING WASHINGTON: the specter of Eurosclerosis. That specter, alas, is turni

A robust economy in the United States with exports in the lead and good internal growth in Japan are

The heads of government of the seven largest industrial democracies are likely to feel and express t

IN POLITICS, ONE MAN, ONE VOTE is a rule that makes sense. In corporate governance, however, it may

EVERYONE WANTS TO FIGHT DRUGS, but no one wants to pay the tab. The Coast Guard has been waiting for

Few would have expected that Snow White would offer a guide for this year's election campaign. But w

For the past couple of months, talks between U.S. and Philippine representative s have been under wa

HAVING HEARD THE WAILS OF CONSUMERS, the nation's state insurance commissioners are proposing a nove

When are you transportation-logistics people going to jazz up your image? the dean asks Tom Ashton,

Washington celebrated a historic milestone last week. By a wide margin, the Senate passed and sent t

A LOVE FEAST IS IN STORE when the leaders of the seven major industrial nations convene their annual

Call it Ebbegate. It's a Swedish scandal, not one of those late 1960's movies that tickled the pruri

IT WAS ONLY A SYMBOLIC SHIPLOAD, but the first American-built Hondas to reach the Japanese market ar

It now appears as though the U.S. equity markets will soon be relying on circuit breakers to allevia

REAL AIR BAG VICTORY BELONGS TO VICTIMThank you for your May 31 editorial that calls attenti

OPPOSING THE WISHES of senior citizens' groups may be the toughest vote in Congress. But last week,

Top finance ministers and central bankers continue to express confidence in Treasury Secretary James

SELF-PROCLAIMED FREE TRADERS are jubilant at the defeat of the Omnibus Trade Bill of 1988, now dead

To take advantage of the future in world trade, you must know where that future is going. If

THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY was strangely silent last week when Karen Phillips, nominated to fill a vacanc

THE FRENCH AND WEST GERMAN governments' decisions to forgive loans to nations in sub-Saharan Africa

Until the proposed U.S.-Canada free trade agreement surfaced, many Canadians suspected that fights o

Auction quotas are an idea whose time, in the view of many, has come. In the now-defunct Omnibus Tra

Soviet Trade Climate Remains Cool to USIt is not surprising that U.S.-Soviet trade and busin

WITH SOLOMONIC WISDOM, the governors of New York and Ohio have agreed on an imaginative plan to brea

For as long as I have been covering aviation, Eastern Airlines has been an aggressive, expansionist

THE $1.14 BILLION put out by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. to close down two Californ

A NEW FISHERIES AGREEMENT between the United States and the Soviet Union takes animportant first ste

The news came during the summit media splash about the new openness or glasnost of Soviet society an

Whenever U.S.-Soviet political relations begin to warm, officials in Washington develop scenarios fo

MANY COMPANIES THAT SHIP by truck are caught in a regulatory no-man's land. Congress partially dereg

FOR SEVEN YEARS, LOW ENERGY PRICES have been a major force in the relatively successful U.S. struggl