Commentary

OPPOSITION IN CONGRESS to creating a separate corporation to manage the nation's air trafficcontrol

FOR ALL OF BEIJING'S ECONOMIC MIGHT, reminders are everywhere that China is still an undeveloped nat

TRAVEL AGENTS HAVE DECLARED WAR on airlines, but this is a fight the agents aren't likely towin.

A FIRST SEA VOYAGE ABOARD A LYKES SHIPThe Feb. 15 Publisher's Notebook (Page 8A) on

Mats Hellstroem, Sweden's foreign trade minister, was in town last week. Asked if Swedish carmakers

An amazing political juggling act is being performed on Russia's southern border by Geidar Aliyev.

You might think an idea that has the enthusiastic support of both President Clinton and House Speake

BILL CLINTON, apostle of reinventing government, has been busier regulating the economy than any pre

Transportation companies don't work together as often as they should, but they are speaking with a u

The day I met Maria Concepcion Robles de Villega - or Concha, as everyone calls her - I finally figu

CHINA'S LATEST TRADE DISPUTE with the United States comes to a head on Feb. 26, the deadline for an

The "American Dream" is in jeopardy. Part of the danger is self-imposed - Americans have sto

ROMANIA: PROGRESS TOWARD FREEDOMWhen your newspaper reported on the debate over Roma

Inflation, a wise man once said, is everywhere and always a monetary phenomenon. In a nutshell, this

IS ENDLESS badgering under antitrust laws the price of commercial success? Not officially, but you w

Budget cuts, including reductions of aid to key foreign countries such as Russia, should not oversha

HEADLINE GAVE MISTAKEN IMPRESSIONYour Feb. 2 edition included a short announcement a

If anyone thinks European nations are losing their identity as they are sucked deeper into a central

President Clinton's proposal for a border-crossing fee of $3 per vehicle would place a serious burde

HOMETOWN HIGHWAY PROJECTS, the source of so much congressional pork, may be exempted from the line-i

Whatever the blame for Mexico's currency crisis, and whatever the merits of President Clinton's resc

The nation's economy may take a dive soon. Rising interest rates? Politics-as-usual in Washi

After more than 15 years of on and off talks, U.S. and Canadian officials are close to reaching a ne

THE RISING PRICE OF NEWSYour Page One headline on Jan. 10 announcing the sale of The Journal

THE CLINTON administration's plan to convert the nation's air traffic control system into a governme

THREE YEARS into a large-scale program to support Russia's political and economic transformation, Co

Delivering the mail is important work. It's the way much of America communicates. People count on th

SENATE DEMOCRATS have failed in their misguided attempt to exempt Social Security from thebalanced b

BUSINESS IS RETURNING TO NORMAL on the Panama Canal - which was anything but normal a few weeks ago.

A subtle shift in Federal Reserve policy has surfaced in recent weeks. After months of reducing the

On the heels of the rescue package for Mexico, Western governments are faced with another critical a

I was living in San Francisco in 1989 but happened to be away for two weeks in Hawaii when the Loma

POSTAL SERVICE GOT A BUM RAPGregory Conko attempts to paint a picture of the U.S. Po

The legacy of the "get-rich-quick" Thatcher years is now apparent. Britain's rich certainly grew ric

CHINA has picked an unlikely target to score a point in a trade dispute: Arnold Schwarzenegger, the

PRESIDENT CLINTON'S weekend offer of special trading rights for some Middle Eastern goods sends a me

In the past few weeks Americans have been getting a short course in labor and antitrust law by readi

THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT, already billions of dollars over budget in its effort to site a high-level nu

PEEL BACK ONE LAYER of transportation regulation and there's usually another underneath. It's been t

It is clear from events at the end of 1994 that there is too little global saving to go around. We c