Commentary

THE UNITED STATES has spent the better part of a decade fighting Europe's blatant subsidies to plane

PILOT BILL WOULD NOT IMPROVE SAFETYYour article on proposed New York state legislation to re

The "black Wednesday" gas explosions that ripped through 20 blocks in Guadalajara, Mexico, two month

WHILE GROUP OF SEVEN leaders were debating economic matters in Munich, heads of the former Soviet re

Something is not rotten in the state of New Jersey. Landfills in states as far off as Alabam

House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., and Rep. Sander Levin, D-Mich., will seek to amend ma

RUSSIA is not the only country trying to unload debt-ridden, money-losing state enterprises. Greece'

The economy was stagnant, the country seemed without direction and the voters were angry. A

IT'S EASY TO BE CYNICAL about world summits, especially the one that starts today in Munich.

SELF-FULFILLING INSURANCE PROPHECIESYour June 17 article on medical malpractice raises quest

A battle is raging in Africa largely out of view of the world community. It is not the kind of confl

Next week's summit meeting in Munich of the Group of 7 industrialized nations represents perhaps the

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY moved gingerly last week to open its aviation market to more internal competi

MORE EVIDENCE THIS WEEK of drastic moves to reform the Russian economy: President Boris Yelt

PORTUGAL'S PRESIDENCY of the European Community, which ends today, may be remembered best for its ba

It was the usual spring ritual in Japanese corporations, whose annual accounts are settled in March.

A Commerce Department official was once asked by a new staffer "What is the trade policy of the Unit

FOR MANY U.S. COMPANIES, it seems, hardly a foreigner anywhere trades fairly. Steelmakers, w

Bond traders and politicians make strange bedfellows. Yet for the moment they have united. They want

An article in Changing Times magazine criticized the airline industry as follows: "No seats . . . l

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS in the former Soviet republics and Eastern Europe make Western leaders nervous.

RAILROADS AND THEIR UNIONS have just concluded another embarrassing chapter in their long history of

FREE TRADE HAS ITS COSTSRichard Lawrence's column on the North American free-trade agreement

The season is now in full swing: Ascot, Wimbledon, Henley, Glyndebourne and Cowes. All are quintesse

President Bush has invited Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari to attend this year's July 14

"WHAT WE HAVE HERE . . . is a failure to communicate." The chain-gang guard in "Cool Hand Lu

THIS WEEK'S STATE VISIT by Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa offers President Bush a chance to

Can he deliver? That's the central question hanging over Fidel Ramos, who succeeds Corazon Aquino Tu

The dismal science of economics sometimes serves up a debate that spills over into larger questions

WITH ETHNIC STRIFE raging all around them, leaders of 11 Black Sea states Thursday took the quixotic

At the meat counter, "choice" denotes high quality. In fact, the word originated in a culinary conte

While media attention has been focused on recent events in the Commonwealth of Independent States an

What will the Labor Party's overwhelming victory in the Israeli elections mean for the future direct

CALIFORNIA IS IN THE MIDST of what is becoming an annual rite - trying to reconcile a huge shortfall

MICHIGAN TRUCKING RULES ARE NECESSARYYour June 17 article "Michigan Moves to Deregulate Truc

RAILROAD LABOR RELATIONS are bad and getting worse. Unions are still fuming over the wage settlement

The most well-intentioned plans can have unintended - and unfortunate - consequences. Such is the ca

Is it really the North American free-trade agreement (Nafta) the United States, Mexico and Canada ha

IF THERE IS ANY DOUBT that national borders and time differences matter less and less in financial m

Fundamentals in the U.S. economy are improving. The Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed what busine