Commentary

When someone claims to be Jesus, it raises both suspicion and expectation. Ambivalence melts away an

CONSIDERING THE FANFARE accompanying President Clinton's announcement of a six-month "performance re

In late January, a few days after the United States had launched a cruise missile attack against Ira

RACKETEERING LAWS and their harsh penalties were written with the mob in mind. Instead, theyare ofte

JAPANESE CONSUMERS, hit hard by recession, have a soft spot for Toys 'R' Us. The U.S.-based

For most of America, Cuba seems today a half-remembered country, if that. Few, outside some

"THIS LAND was made for you and me" - or so Woody Guthrie would have us believe, at least when it co

Multimillion-dollar salaries and stock awards for America's top executives have stirred stinging cri

SOCIAL SECURITY IS PAID-UP INSURANCEI fail to comprehend, from your Feb. 4 editorial "Touchi

BRIAN MULRONEY's decision to resign as Canada's prime minister in June will cost the United States a

MANDATORY DRUG TESTING for workers in sensitive transportation jobs - those who fly planes, drive tr

Local mom-and-pop bookstores are disappearing from the Japanese landscape. An upsetting television r

Ambitious and bold, the Clinton plan for invigorating industrial technology has triggered warnings o

President Clinton was quick to take credit for the decline in interest rates since he took office Ja

BILL CLINTON is still walking a tightrope on international trade. His first major speech on the subj

THE LATEST ECONOMIC FIGURES from the Commerce Department offer a cornucopia of good news, not the le

NO BASIS FOR RAISING MEXICAN WAGESRequiring that Mexico's minimum wage be gradually raised t

President Clinton, in his Inaugural Address, provided hope the new administration will seek to forge

Through little fault of its own, the European Community Commission has gone languid just when the co

THE CORRUPTION and bribery scandal convulsing Italy is expanding by the day. Fully one-fourt

WHEN FEDERICO PENA, the new transportation secretary, meets with shipping officials this week, both

If President Clinton were really serious about reducing the deficit: * He would drop his eco

Despite the heated commentary surrounding the three axes of President Clinton's State of the Union a

If the U.S. Customs Service can push Japan to make its customs agency process imports more efficient

One does not have to be a despised member of America's ruling class, a greedy 1980s takeover bandit

It is, by now, conventional wisdom that the U.S. trade deficit will worsenbecause Europe and

In the thousands of pages of text and supporting materials that comprise the North American free-tra

ECONOMIC RECOVERY is all around us, according to government figures due out today. Revised C

TO HEAR THE BIG AIRLINES tell it, they are victims - victims of unfair foreign competition, unfair r

IN NO MOOD TO SACRIFICEI just heard our new big-spending president talk about everybody maki

Preoccupied with political challenges in Europe and the Middle East and with economic competition fr

In a series of articles summing up part of his life, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "The test of a first

CUBA STAGED AN ELECTION Wednesday, but no one was expected to stay up late waiting for theresults.

WHAT WOULD YOU SAY of an insurance company that can't vary its premiums according to its customers'

BILL CLINTON never met a public works project he didn't like. This week it's Al Gore's "data superhi

U.S. voters chose Bill Clinton as president largely on the basis of his pledge ''to create jobs now

There's an old, bad joke about Old Europe that goes something like this: In heaven the Germa

As President Clinton begins to grapple with his trade policies, he is confronted with the same two l

MOST AMERICANS would like to rely less on Social Security - if only the government would let them.

AS THE U.S. EMBARGO against Vietnam drags on, American companies are falling hopelessly behind other