Commentary

One of the side effects of the Ivan Boesky investigation casts doubt on the game of arbitrage - perh

WHAT KIND OF TRADE BILL will Senate Democrats bring to the floor next year? The dust from last month

It's winter again and China's answer to the young Beaujolis - a sort of Nouveau Great Wall - is bein

FOR THE THIRD TIME in as many decades, a U.S. administration finds itself facing a crisis of confid

It was December, 1964. Charles I. Hiltzheimer, between planes at O'Hara Airport in Chicago, was maki

ARE THE UNITED STATES and the European Community ganging up on Japan? In two cases now, the

COMPETITIVENESS, WE'RE TOLD, will be the byword of the Reagan administration in its final two years.

Almost nine months after the victory of a right-wing parliamentary majority, France seems to be adju

IF SOMEONE HAD SET OUT deliberately to sabotage tax reform, increase taxes, provide an unbelievable

My generation of teachers was jolted from complacency by war and its aftermath, not the patriotic wa

The immediate priority of the Venezuelan government, despite the problems associated with the reduc

SEN. LLOYD BENTSEN WANTS an oil import fee. That's understandable because he'sfrom Texas and

The trade official points out the window of his 31st-floor office and proclaims: There's no need to

Consciously or unconsciously, the other branches of government have come to rely on judges to avoid

Though federal elections are at least two years away in Canada, the outcome could hinge, to a large

EXPECTED THOUGH IT WAS, the grim fact of United States Lines filing for reorganization under the ban

AT THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT these days Germany bashing is all the rage. Officials at Treasury

BACK IN 1888 when George Eastman decided on a name for his fledgling camera and photographic equipme

Patrick Buchanan, the president's master speech writer and keen-witted conservative, had a slightly

There is in this country a very serious debate raging with respect to the current system of civil ju

The scale may be far more modest, but the shock waves are being felt just the same. The case of Geo

The Federal Budget Ballet Begins MANUEVERS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN, both within and outside the R

IN THE RECENT ELECTION, 69 percent of those casting ballots voted against creating a tax district fo

THERE IS LITTLE COMFORT in the current crisis surrounding U.S. shipments of arms to Iran, but there

Arguably, this month is one of the all-time low points for the Reagan administration. First

If the railroad industry can get through the present, Stephen Ailes, former president of the Associa

President Corazon C. Aquino's body politic is under attack from both within and without. The governm

AND NOW, THE IRONY OF ALL IRONIES. Ivan Boesky, we learn, was permitted to sell off a good chunk of

The peculiar preliminary rituals of Mexico's presidential campaign have entered their most public ph

THERE IS A GREAT DEAL to be said about the new contracts of the International Longshoremen's Associa

Former President Richard M. Nixon recently paid a private visit to Moscow. Apparently he met with so

The third part of New York state's reform legislation relating to commercial liability insurance cov

Ten years ago there was tremendous concern in Taiwan about what would happen if and when the United

The Reagan administration is doing a study. It is pulling all stops, says an official, to find ways

AFTER FOUR YEARS of debate and compromise between parents' groups, physicians and pharmaceutical man

TO HEAR THE WHITE HOUSE tell it, the Red Sox won the Series - or something like that. The ad

It is a city of hope, a city of contradictions, a city of dreams. In countless irrepressible, pulsat

The second prong of the New York Legislature's attempt to try to provide incentives to the insurance

IVAN BOESKY has just given a reprieve to corporate America. In agreeing to settle Securities and Exc

When the secretary of Transportation sits down with her senior staff, there is an empty chair for th