Commentary

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY has been congratulating itself lately for revising its bloated farm subsidy p

THE ENERGY BILL that's likely to become law this summer won't come close to meeting its original goa

An expert on the European Community was asked recently if a "Fortress Europe" is looming, a referenc

A House maritime subcommittee may hold hearings this month on a controversial international cargo li

If you had $3 billion to set up an innovative private-school system, what would you create?

AMONG THE SENSIBLE PROVISIONS in the just-passed House energy bill is one that blocks gas-producing

Women might find Brazil, with an international reputation for sexism, an inhospitable place to press

Presidential candidate Ross Perot would develop his various programs for the nation by staging elect

THE BUILDUP to next week's Earth Summit continues unabated. The official New China News Agen

As U.S. industries face new and growing global markets, energy efficiency becomes increasingly impor

AS BANK INTEREST RATES PLUMMET, Americans are turning increasingly to mutualfunds - pools of

REVOLT AGAINST MILITARY RULE is spreading to Southeast Asia. Political analysts say the curr

John Macomber, the Export-Import Bank chairman, laid out a challenge here last week. Within five yea

SHOPPING IS CIVILIZED OUTSIDE THE USI read your April 27 article, "Shop Until You Drop? Not

MORE THAN 4 BILLION TONS of hazardous materials - everything from household paints to nuclear weapon

President Bush's recent decision to put free-trade negotiations with Chile on hold until theNorth Am

The future shape of Europe could be decided in the next three weeks by two small countries with a co

WHILE THE UNITED STATES resists normalizing relations with Vietnam, France is pledging public money

THERE'S NOTHING FUNNY about the mud wrestling match in San Francisco Bay. Dredging - deepeni

The American economy is moving steadily into expansion. On Friday, Washington will boost its estimat

Immediately upon taking office in December 1988, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari told Mexico's 3

FIRST THERE was LUST - Leaking Underground Storage Tanks. Now there is LULU - Locally Undesirable La

THE NORTH ATLANTIC Treaty Organization, which has been seeking a new role for itself after the demis

AUSTRALIA'S REAL FARM PROBLEMSIn your May 11 article, "Australian Farmers Are Caught in Cros

Harsh U.S. criticism of Japan over trade and defense issues has provoked a potentially dangerous rea

In passing the Shipbuilding Trade Reform Act of 1992 earlier this month, the House approved one of t

EMPLOYEE QUALITY TEAMS have been an important and constructive addition to thousands of U.S. corpora

They've just begun a recycling program in my area, a fact for which the entire neighborhood is grate

The Bush administration and the leaders of the other Western democracies have decided that the Inter

A SENSIBLE NOTE OF CAUTION came this week from a leading international research group: Economic refo

Election-year politics are getting confusing. First, the word on the street was that the White House

One year ago today, Rajiv Gandhi was brutally assassinated by a bomb while campaigning in southern I

TWO DECADES of Washington's fiscal mismanagement have left us with this: a national debt of $4 trill

SHIPYARDS PROVIDE ENTRY-LEVEL JOBSArticles that appeared in consecutive issues of your newsp

AS IF CONGRESS were not in enough trouble with voters already, a new report has proclaimedit the wor

"The last temptation is the ultimate treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason." It

THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC is returning to the tried and true to hold back a wave of crime among young peo

The long-delayed project to dredge the Port of Oakland's Inner Harbor to a depth of 38 feet is of mu

WHEN GEORGE BUSH AND BRIAN MULRONEY meet in Washington today, the Canadian prime minister no doubt w

Amid the predictable coverage of the predictable riots in Los Angeles, one statement surprised me.