Commentary

After months in gestation, a federal retraining reform may soon be delivered. ''I intend to ask Cong

Several years ago a series of high-profile accidents, including the Exxon Valdez oil spilland the de

Hang on: Bill Clinton's about to begin his second year in office. A year ago this time, give

It wasn't long ago that U.S. computer chip makers were warning of Japan's growing dominance of their

THERE'S LITTLE LOVE LOST between the leaders of Brazil and Argentina, two of the Latin American nati

BETTER WAYS TO SAVE SALMONIn your editorial "Fish and the River" (Jan. 4, Page 6A),

FOR THOSE WHO MISSED IT, Vice President Al Gore treated an entertainment industry audienceTuesday to

The Labor Department confirmed last week what most Americans have known for some time. Job opportuni

I've been sitting in front of a flat glass plate for hours watching steel balls dance before my eyes

When Soviet-imposed communist regimes ruled Central and Eastern Europe, nationalism was the chief me

THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION'S attack on Chinese textiles has angered Beijing, and for good reason. U.

It has been billed as Europe's engineering feat of the century; a tunnel beneath the English Channel

GARY HUFBAUER and Kimberly Ann Elliott of the Institute for International Economics have provided a

AEROLINEAS ARGENTINAS NEEDS TIME TO GROWEric Ehrmann's opinion article, "Argentina's Unfrien

The United States International Trade Commission has proposed a series of remedies to safeguard yet

WHEN PRESIDENT CLINTON meets Boris Yeltsin this week, he'll be delivering the right economicmessage:

On the eve of President Clinton's trip this week to Moscow, American Jewish groups are keeping up pr

JAPAN'S ECONOMY may be slumping, but most Japanese still work long hours. A new Japanese gov

In Defense Of Kings PointYour Jan. 3 editorial, "DOT's Needless Spending" (Page 6A),

THE STATELY PALACE housing the Federal Reserve has become a jumpy place lately. Political encroachme

The Clinton administration's decision to go full throttle on "corporatizing" the FederalAviation Adm

COMMERCIALIZING the government's air traffic control system won't solve all of the nation's air trav

International trade is a complex matter these days. What may first appear as a step in the right dir

Some of Latin America's most publicized environmental disputes these days are being waged in Ecuador

It should not come as a shock that a very unusual recession is being followed by a very unusual reco

THE CLINTON CAMP made much of its decision last year to phase out subsidies to honey producers. But

President Clinton's first mission to Moscow, at least since becoming president, takes place next wee

THE ARMED REVOLT this week in Mexico's southernmost state, Chiapas, wasn'tmainly about the N

The billions of dollars Western nations are offering to the West Bank and Gaza set the stage for a m

WHY TRUCK TARIFFS ARE NOT NEEDEDIn your Dec. 28 letters column, Martin Foley of the trucking

RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC REFORMS have always had a dark side: crime. Mixed in with the budding market econo

RUSSIAN PORT REFORM HASN'T STOPPEDYour Dec. 23 article, "Russian Government Resumes

FOR THOSE WHO FOUGHT the North American Free Trade Agreement, the future must look bleak. With the t

Suddenly, sharply, winter has come The white flowers of the yatsude have vanishedand the gin

When oil and money mix, they can produce an explosive mixture. Conventional wisdom in Wall Street is

Is European business falling prey to nationalism at a time when it must build cross-border alliances

STILL AN URGENT NEED FOR THE ICCLawrence Lesser's recent opinion piece on the Inters

At a time of widespread concern that government is not doing enough to promote employment, the natio

THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST is the scene of an increasingly tense battle between environmentalists and ind

Writer James Fallows, in the last several issues of the Atlantic magazine, has been trying to make t