Commentary

"Now that the U.S. marshal has brought law and order to Dodge City, it is important that the United

Trade negotiators are meeting in Washington this week in a final bid to resolve one of themost bizar

With health care and legislation to ratify the Uruguay Round currently dominating the publicagenda,

One year ago Thursday, the nation was gripped by a transportation tragedy. In the early morning hour

IN THE SPRINT to ratify a historic world trade agreement before Congress adjourns for the year, the

Wall Street appears increasingly vulnerable to signals of impending inflationary pressure. Stocks, b

It is a curious fact of international institutions that top posts are assigned under a bizarre quota

RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS are daunting, but signs of life are everywhere. The latest comes from the

The great New England poet Robert Frost got it almost right. Eighty years ago, in the poem "Mending

It has been said that politics is the art of the possible, and, also, that all politics islocal. Wit

WHATEVER THE OUTCOME of President Clinton's military adventure in Haiti, this much is certain: Witho

MAKING AMTRAK MORE PRODUCTIVEYour Amtrak editorial ("Running a Railroad," Sept. 14) did not

AMERICA'S ANTITRUST COPS have been pounding a global beat this year. In the last three months, the J

White House planning for the December summit of Western Hemisphere leaders has been further set back

The Fifty Years Is Enough Campaign is not planning to disrupt the 50th anniversary celebrations of t

Whatever the merits of his case, Douglas Hart deserves gratitude, and not justbecause he cha

THE GREAT ETHANOL RUSE, EPA's plan to force refiners to mix ethanol in gasoline, may be unraveling.

The Clinton administration has decided to omit "fast track" negotiating authority from its legislati

HEALTH INSURANCE: CONSIDER THE CUSTOMERThere is a fundamental inequality in the current syst

All too seldom Congress rises to the occasion, puts gridlock aside and members of both parties find

Opinion polls consistently show that Americans are cynical toward government. Too often, such cynici

We're No. 1 again, no longer playing second (or worse) fiddle to Japan. It took nearly a decade to b

ALASKA OIL SHOULDN'T BE EXPORTEDYour Sept. 9 opinion page article, "Lifting Alaska's Oil Exp

WITH THE NEW WORLD TRADE PACT under assault in some countries, it may seem an odd time to push for e

Each year, the Internal Revenue Service reports that a small number of high- income earners(over $20

It was a wonderful vacation if you like public humiliation, stress, 6 a.m. wake-up calls, long bus r

Wall Street was shocked by the surge in wholesale prices in August. Stocks, bonds and the dollar all

AMTRAK, the nation's passenger railroad, will receive a record $1.1 billion in federal subsidies nex

IMAGINE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT charging a user fee to file income taxes and ''use" the services of t

WITH NO COMPROMISE in sight on extending President Clinton's trade negotiating authority, itis worth

MTBE IS A SAFE GASOLINE ADDITIVEYour informative article on the continued efforts of some et

A little less than a year ago, the North American Free Trade Agreement seemed consigned tofailure, c

The Intergovernmental Conference that will shape the future of the European Union is two years away,

For a while there, it looked as if the U.S. government's concern with the latest wave of Cuban boat

Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas won headlines with his recent call for postponing a vote

THE WORLD BANK and the International Monetary Fund, created at the close of World War II tostabilize

Post-communist history has been a sad chronicle of economic failures, ethnic wars and political uphe

The rate of absorption of clever but awful technologies into our economy and culture is difficult to

THE UNITED STATES CANNOT BE INDIFFERENT to important events in Canada, its chief trading partner. Th

Editor's note: America's 21-year-old ban on exporting Alaskan oil has been the subject of renewed in