Commentary

The Washington memory bank of acronymia is ever expanding. Two of the latest acronyms, kudos to the

FRESH from his success in winning a $6 billion Saudi Arabian order for U.S. airplanes, Commerce Secr

Later this month, the U.S. Maritime Administration will publish regulations launching the National S

The Chiapas Indian rebellion has irreversibly altered Mexico's political landscape. The insurgents,

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION has begun its inevitable retreat on China. Its ill- advised plan to force

Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa's decision to lift the ban on imported rice is a heavy blowto rural

The name of the international pow-wow in Detroit this week was the "jobs summit." Like most big medi

PRESIDENT CLINTON'S Detroit "jobs summit" has concluded with - surprise! - no consensus on how to ta

This week the leaders of the major industrialized countries are attending a jobs summit inDetroit to

"The hypocrisy of Congress exempting itself from the laws it applies to others is so obvious that on

MERCHANT MARINE'S LAST GASPMaritime Administrator Al Herberger's March 11 article, "Blueprin

LOW-WAGE WORKERS are receiving the attention of world leaders, but it may be the wrong sort of atten

The air in Brussels will be thick with irony this week as the European Union bidsto boost its member

PRESIDENT CLINTON today kicks off another of those big policy seminars he likes so much: atwo-day ta

In the Texas panhandle and at four secret sites in Russia, an amazing effort is under way: The arms

In an incredible four weeks late last year, President Clinton pushed the North American FreeTrade Ag

Steel industry executives will be watching an International Trade Commission vote Thursday on whethe

THE CLINTON administration may have inherited Nafta from George Bush, but the president seems determ

President Clinton this week sent Congress a plan to ensure that this nation will continue to have a

President Clinton has talked of "growing" the American economy, providing both better jobs and a cle

Earlier this year, it seemed that the combined pressures of politics and the prospect of huge federa

IT'S NOT EASY dismantling a socialist economy, as events this week in France show. The government of

THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM serves the nation well, but it doesn't connect enough of the country t

The success of Russian extremist Vladimir Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party in the December par

NEXT WEEK, the House of Representatives is expected to approve a balanced budget amendment to the Co

It was a dark and stormy night filled with baskets of indicators tangibly resulting in frameworks of

PATRICK CLEARY, who has refereed labor disputes since 1989 as a member of the National Mediation Boa

ETHANOL: GOOD NEWS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTWayne Brough's article "A Special Bargain for Ethanol"

IT'S KNOWN as the "C" word, and it drives Washington's business and economic policies like nothing e

The rancorous battle between the Clinton administration and the Federal Reserve over who should regu

With the Japanese and U.S. governments at odds over trade in telecommunication equipment, the Clinto

If what's going on here is what the world means by progress, please stop the world. I want to get of

The big question in space politics is whether Congress will sensibly kill the space station with one

The stated mission of the Federal Reserve System, from its inception in 1913, has always vastly exce

THE BAD NEWS on CFCs - chemical compounds believed to deplete the Earth's protective ozone layer - j

IN MOST WAYS, the nations of the European Union are as modern and advanced as those anywhere. In mos

Michael Heseltine is back in the running. Britain's most charismatic politician - nicknamed

A bill to help workers left without protective benefits when large carriers sell lines to smaller op

Since the 1960s, U.S. policy-makers have sought an opportunity to foster a transition to democracy i

Approval of the Uruguay Round trade agreement faces a difficult procedural obstacle in Congress: com