Commentary

ANOTHER GERMAN ELECTION, another victory for Helmut Kohl. But for Germany's chancellor andhis ruling

In a surreptitious, late-night maneuver, congressional staff members at the House MerchantMarine and

AMERICA'S SOCIAL SECURITY system is not the only public pension plan that's heading for a cliff. The

As policy-makers struggle to find answers for Haiti's deep-seated problems, they are likely tooverlo

Political campaigns are often shrill and negative, and sometimes political opponents distort the fac

BRITAIN took a small step last week toward resuming talks with the United States on improving access

Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former finance minister and author of Brazil's economic stabilization pla

ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY TRAFFIC ON THE RISEAfter reading the Oct. 11 letter to the edito

As President Jean-Bertrand Aristide prepares for his uncertain political future in Haiti, healready

RUSTY, BROKEN-DOWN SHIPS are a common - and disturbing - sight on the world's oceans. Even more dist

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin launched a full-scale search Wednesday for a culprit to blame for th

A NEW TACTIC FOR MARITIME REFORMIn a recent article you quoted Mark Aron, senior vice presid

Congressional inaction sometimes deserves high praise. Congress recently let stand a Department of D

At first, cleaning up the air and water was easy. Most of the burden was on big companies oron citie

DETROIT'S AUTOMAKERS are in high gear. Three years after posting record losses, the Big Three are on

ECONOMISTS don't agree on very much, but there's a growing sense that many of the best economic idea

PUBLICITY can be a powerful weapon against unsafe ships, as maritime nations are discovering.

One of the great myths of U.S. politics is that high-wage American workers cannot compete in the glo

The anti-dumping and countervailing-duty laws (AD/CVD) provide protection to domestic firms from imp

In these hard times, what's wrong about an ambitious university lobbying in Washington fora couple o

HONDA TO INCREASE EXPORTS FROM USTOKYO - Honda Motor Co. said last week that it plan

Perhaps never again will the millions of European vacationers, truck drivers, day trippers and other

JONES ACT DOESN'T HURT SEAWAY TRAFFICI am disappointed that you reprinted the Associated Pre

Canada's rebellious, French-speaking province of Quebec elected a government last month that is comm

GREAT FLOODS are hard to predict, but their damage over time is as foreseeable as the sunrise. Every

AMERICAN MOVIES are more popular than ever in other countries, good news for U.S. film companies. Th

Struggling to help Russia solve its economic woes, American policy-makers grumble the world has neve

The expectation of an another rate increase by the Federal Reserve has produced a loud chorus of "no

In the future, Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts was explaining to a novice, every home and business (

THE GATT TRADE PACT has become a political orphan, abandoned for now by lawmakers too cravento cast

ECONOMIC REFORMS often seem to take a step backward for every two steps forward. Consider th

GOVERNMENT IS FILLED with programs that don't work well, including many tied to the U.S. shipping in

Of the top 1,000 U.S. companies listed by Forbes magazine in 1980, half were no longer in business u

LIMITING SUPERFUND LITIGATIONWhile decrying the tax on insurers in the proposed Superfund Re

Many of the letters sent to the Customs Service these days involve the reorganization of the agency,

A year ago, President Clinton went before Congress and promised the nation a free lunch: a huge expa

AMERICAN INGENUITY is alive and well. Consider Richard Cawley, who had the misfortune eight years ag

THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES finally may vote this week - perhaps as early as today - on the bill im

What should the United States do about immigration? In the abstract, it's hard enough. In reality, i

The trend toward freer world trade is becoming more expensive and complicatedbecause of inte