Commentary

TODAY'S ELECTION, more than any other in recent memory, is a roll of the dice. None of the choices i

No need to bite your fingernails over what lies ahead for business and the economy after the electio

NO MATTER WHO becomes president, U.S. companies that own foreign-registered ships plan a push next y

WE HAVE HEARD TOO OFTEN the trite charges traded this election year: the ''trickle down" Republican

In his agenda for a second term, President Bush sums up what he sees distinguishing him from Gov. Bi

ROYALTY IS NOT what it used to be. Consider Liechtenstein, a tiny principality between Austria and S

The failure of world leaders to conclude the current round of global trade talks is turning into a s

Sen. Al Gore wants to direct environmental policy in a Clinton administration. The prospect should f

When Russian President Boris Yeltsin recently canceled a planned visit to Japan, analysts were quick

AT A TIME WHEN POLITICAL POSTURING by world leaders is supplanting common sense, it is encouraging t

AND YOU THOUGHT it took a long time to settle world trade disputes. According to a report fr

Infrastructure is a useful, if ungainly, word. It's shorthand for society's physical skeleto

SKYROCKETING MEDICAL COSTS and cutbacks in private insurance plans will be on the minds of many vote

Over the last 25 years, the health sector's share of the U.S. economy has more than doubled.

CROWLEY'S PROMPT RESPONSE IN IRAQ WARWith reference to the supposed lack of participation by

The 1992 campaign is not a choice between "free trade" and "protectionism." Although the Bush campai

CANADIANS DELIVERED a resounding, and in many ways perplexing, "no" verdict in Monday's referendum o

In "The Case Against Tort Reform," an Opinion article that appeared Oct. 21, the drug DES should hav

A week before the election, the U.S. economy remains on track for a moderate recovery. Consumer spen

IN A MISGUIDED ATTEMPT to curry favor with anti-Castro Cubans in Florida, George Bush committed anot

From all the sound and fury emanating from Beijing, you'd think that Hong Kong Gov. Chris Patten had

During the last weeks of this presidential campaign, voters have been presented with a series of vit

The European Community is paralyzed by soul-searching and recrimination as its grand plan for econom

NO WONDER VOTERS are fed up with government. The bean counters in the Montgomery County, Md., govern

The slogan, "jobs, jobs, jobs" unites the presidential candidates. They differ over how to create th

WHATEVER YOU THINK OF GEORGE BUSH'S trade policies, you're likely to think the same of Bill Clinton'

With election day approaching fast, many voters are making a final gut check: Would they be comforta

If politicians' promises could tame health-care costs, a day in the hospital wouldn't cost more than

The industrial policy debate in America is nothing new. The country was born with a government-inspi

IF THE COUNTRY HAD A NICKEL for every time George Bush mentioned the line-item veto, the federal def

DOES ANYONE UNDERSTAND what's happening at the world trade talks? So far this month, the negotiation

If presidential front-runner Bill Clinton is elected, it is unlikely he will want to grapple with tr

Jonas Savimbi, leader of Angola's opposition National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (Un

Drip, drip, drip. Trickle has become the operative word in the presidential campaign. Economic benef

BRITAIN'S COAL MINERS won two rounds this week in their effort to block government plans to close 31

The world is changing faster than you can say New World Order. Technology and the information revolu

DRIVING AN 80,000-POUND TRUCK over congested highways is tense, tiring work. Nonetheless, the govern

About this time every four years, presidential politics and post-season baseball share the spotlight

At the risk of being burned at the stake for the modern version of heresy - political incorrectness

SOME OF THE SHARPEST political commentary this year is coming from bond markets. Investors i