Commentary

THIS MONTH, Congress faces two crucial votes that will help to separate lawmakers who are serious ab

AL GORE will have his work cut out for him tonight. Fortunately, the vice president will have the fa

WHY AMERICANS NEED THE ICCThe many ill-founded assertions in Lawrence Lesser's recen

The numbers make for disturbing reading: 17 million unemployed (more than 11 percent of the work for

Should U.S. maritime policy and U.S. tax dollars actively support foreign-flag ships that pay their

IT'S A SCENE Woody Allen does well: A less-than-suave restaurant patron tries madly to attract a wai

Can government research money stimulate a renaissance of Yankee ingenuity and assure pre-eminence in

With its 1,342 pages of legislative legalese, President Clinton's new ''Health Security Act" may be

IF PENSION FUND managers need investment tips (see the above editorial), they might take theadvice o

SOME 50 MILLION AMERICANS depend on corporate or union pensions for at least part of theirretirement

Now that the Clinton administration has unveiled two elements of its maritime policy - directsubsidi

Two recent events, one unfortunate and one exciting, seemingly unrelated. But maybe not.For

GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES have been synonymous with the shipping industry for decades. None of the mariti

IT WAS REASSURING to hear Transportation Secretary Federico Pena's ringing endorsement of an open, c

I rarely respond to attacks on unfair American trade laws, but the recent opinion article by Kent Jo

Though it has become something of a cliche to draw parallels between the Kennedy and Clinton adminis

A U.S. PROPOSAL to further open world aviation markets has run into strong headwinds. "We, t

NO REGION of the world is more important to the United States than the Pacific Rim. The economies of

ENOUGH SAID BY FREE MARKET ADVOCATESThe recent spate of letters from U.S. shipbuilders Ole S

If any continent has gained a reputation as the world's basket case, it is Africa. The economies of

Democrats and free marketeers who want to invest in Russia's future - and in America's peace of mind

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT can come at a high cost in countries as rich in history as Egypt. With

RAILROADS are easy prey for tax-hungry states. Who better to overtax than non- voting, non-resident

On the surface, the economy perked up last summer. According to the Commerce Department's initial gu

Japanese business is rediscovering Asia. After more than four decades of depending on the U.S. marke

In its recent report to President Clinton and Congress, the NationalCommission to Ensure a S

MONDAY MARKED THE ENTRY into force of the Maastricht Treaty, a major step on the road to a unified E

When President Clinton traveled to Oakland, Calif., this summer, he sounded what should become the b

PAYING SEAMEN _ AND SENATORSSen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is wrong to claim that a master on

AS IF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY didn't have enough problems aligning its divergent economies, Greece, i

Air France workers may have crippled the airline for the past couple of weeks as they protested agai

"Federal agencies do many things not because they make sense but because they have always been done

DIESEL FUEL PRICES have soared in the past few weeks. The new federal fuel tax and a new national re

AIR FRANCE has bought labor peace - at a steep price. France's bloated government-owned airl

As Congress begins to look at funding and managing a national health-care program, one of the areas

U.S. companies are miffed by what they see as a contradiction in the Clinton administration's polici

AMERICAN COMPANIES and their workers have taken a bum rap. The popular perception is that U.S. indus

NO ONE IS CELEBRATING yet, but evidence is mounting that the U.S. economy is, in President Clinton's

US HAS NOT CHANGED INDIA EXPORT RULESContrary to your Oct. 22 article, "U.S. May Ease Export

The coverage of events in Haiti, Somalia and Russia has been abundant on front pages and television