Commentary

NO ONE HAS YET DESIGNED a fail-safe oil tanker, and no one is likely to any time soon. When a ship b

Back in the early 1980s, before anyone in the Soviet Union had thought much about economic reform, a

THERE'S NO MYSTERY to Japan's economic "miracle" of the 1980s, according to its labor federation.

Now we hear suddenly that Bill Clinton is shocked at the size of the federal budget deficit and is i

Among the Clinton administration's first foreign policy acts with respect to sub-Saharan Africa must

"THE STATE OF MANAGEMENT in the federal government is not good." So begins a blunt assessment by the

Candidate Bill Clinton repeatedly slammed Mr. Bush's economic failures with the aphorism: "Fooled on

A PLAN FOR PRESERVING THE US FLEETYour Nov. 5th editorial ("Mr. Clinton's Challenges," Page

IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN how Russia's new prime minister, conservative Viktor Chernomyrdin, will manage

St. Paul must be surprised to find himself in the middle of the debate over what the Clinton adminis

CHEMICAL WEAPONS have an appalling if shadowy history, from the skin- blistering gases released on W

CANADA'S NATIONALIZED HEALTH INSURANCE is still a model for many Americans struggling with high medi

About this time last year, an American businessman involved in China trade told me he thought Americ

Since this is January, it is time to worry about the federal deficit. Richard Darman, the outgoing R

Beyond the peace negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors lies a grand vision: the possibi

PRESIDENT-ELECT BILL CLINTON last week reaffirmed his commitment to the North American free-trade ag

Confidence, that intangible emotion so critical to economic performance, is a fleeting thing in Euro

I don't get too many calls these days from people who say: Well, if all this free trade and free ent

THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT has admitted it won't have a permanent burial place for nuclear waste in 1998,

WHY STEEL NEEDS MULTILATERAL TALKSErich Heinemann is mistaken when he blames the Bush admini

America's soaring medical bills have been designated economic enemy No. 1 on Bill Clinton's reform a

President-elect Clinton has made his choices for the cabinet posts in his new administration, but th

THE INEVITABLE GLOBALIZATION of the airline industry continued last week when the Departmentof Trans

MOST AMERICANS think they have little in common with John McGann, a music store worker whoeffectivel

For the last seven years, concerned U.S. labor activists have engaged in the futile gesture of petit

The idea of 500 television channels challenges even veteran couch potatoes. Channel grazing, the hot

When militant Hindus destroyed an ancient mosque in Ayodhya last month, they may have done more than

HEATHER GRADISON was never well suited to run the Interstate CommerceCommission, and a repor

President-elect Bill Clinton and Mexican President Carlos Salinas are meeting today in San Antonio,

COLD WAR BARRIERS between the two Koreas are gradually falling away. On Thursday, in a rare

Nearly every American family participates in or benefits from federal entitlement programs.

BARELY TWO MONTHS into his new administration, Bill Clinton will head a government that is officiall

FIVE CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS of the former Soviet Union have long complained of their "junior partne

1993 has the look of a landmark year in U.S. trade legislation. Congress, it is widely belie

A COUNTERPOINT ON COUNTERTRADEAs chairman of the Countertrade Committee formed by U.

THE COSTS OF STUBBORN SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS are mounting as Israel nears the end of the third week of i

BIG POST-CHRISTMAS SALES are all the rage at this time of year, but nothing compares with the post-C

Several weeks into Operation Restore Hope, there are signs the U.S.-led intervention is evolving to

Congressional leaders, aided and abetted by operatives in the new Clinton administration, are planni

Many Americans fear the North American free-trade agreement will start a race by U.S. companies to m