Commentary

IF YOU THINK the nation's $900 billion health care system is a Frankenstein's monster, wait until yo

OUTRAGEOUS STATEMENTS from French officials are nothing new. Still, Bernard Attali, chairmanof bloat

AIRLINES are in trouble, right? Don't tell that to Southwest Airlines. While a new government commis

TAIWAN PROTECTS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTYWe were very disturbed to read your Jan. 5 article, "Si

Larry Klayman, an international trade attorney here, is known among some of his colleagues as a sort

We frequently hear about the giant American corporations that stand to gainfrom the proposed

IN AN EFFORT to save his ill-conceived energy tax, Bill Clinton is doing some furious backpedaling.

The tale of a little Japanese restaurant in Manhattan shows just how seriously Americans feel about

President Bush handed Bill Clinton a solid expansion on Jan. 20. Real gross domestic product grew at

FOLLOWING in that great American tradition, Japan issued its hit list of unfair traders this week an

You're looking to buy a fancy new sports car, but it costs more than you want to spend. One day, you

AFTER A COUPLE OF OPENING ACTS, President Clinton's economic program takes center stage this week on

HOGS AND LOGS, suds and spuds. In a few words, that's the recent history of U.S.-Canadian tr

ANOTHER COSTLY AVIATION FEUD is heating up between the United States and Australia. On Monda

The human tragedy of former French Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy's suicide was brutally transforme

LOAN FUNDS COULD CREATE MARITIME JOBSAn item in your April 5th "Washington Report" column, d

The Department of Transportation recently took a public stance against allegedly predatory practices

You're out of work and you need a job fast. Where do you turn? For many people, there's only one pla

President Clinton expects to go to the seven-power economic summit this July in Tokyo in a stronger

HEALTH REFORM: PUT PATIENTS IN CHARGERegarding your article "No Free Lunch on Univer

AT THE WEEKEND, strikes in eastern Germany were spreading after metalworkers and their employers fai

CHANGE IS COMING to Pacific shipping. Liner companies that jointly set rates there are listening to

Even though Middle Eastern desert nomads and Himalayan mountain dwellers receive distant television

AMERICANS, far more than Europeans, are on their own when they're out of work. To begin with, most j

When Bill Clinton rises to speak about his programs, one often feels transformed back in time, back

As delegates gathered for the annual board meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Devel

IN "THE MOUSE THAT ROARED," a small, mountainous country learns how get the attention of the United

British Airways cements a global alliance with USAir. Boeing slashes aircraft production and over 28

The idea of building coast-to-coast electronic circuits providing easy access to worlds and worlds o

TRUCKING COMPANIES and railroads dodged a $12 billion bullet last week. That was the projected cost

A NAFTA BORDER TAX ISN'T WISESteven Charnovitz's opinion piece, "Rethinking a Nafta Border T

CONGRESS is finally tackling an 1872 mining law that virtually gives away federal lands to mining co

These days, Washington is abuzz with talk of a "national technology policy." Enamored withthe idea o

An economist with Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith said recently that a major part of his job is

President Clinton says one of his primary goals is to create good jobs at good wages. If he is serio

U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS have taken a turn for the worse under the Clinton administration. U.S. official

PITTSBURGH has gone ga-ga over McDonald's Big Mac sandwich, launched 25 years ago in the Steel City.

IT IS HARDLY SURPRISING that Budget Director Leon Panetta thinks the North American free-trade agree

IF SPENDING equals "investment" and tax increases are "contributions," what are up to $150 billion i

These are sober times in the Netherlands as this small nation wonders whether its well-managed, open