Commentary

MARITIME SUBSIDIES DON'T WORK. When the Bush administration delivered that simple message to Congres

Democrats in Congress never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. They squandered one last mon

After eleven hours of emotional debate, after months of wrenching discussions, the German Parliament

RISK OF CARGO LOSSES WAS OVERSTATEDYour article "Use of Defective Sea Containers Has Cargo I

LOST AMID THE FUROR over last week's Senate debate on highway spending was a small success for natio

Banking lobbyists are complaining to Congress that insurance companies and agents want it both ways

Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of converting military industry to civilian use, first announced in Decem

Japanese think they live in a distinctive, self-contained society that below the veneer of Westerniz

A NASTY, SIX-YEAR DISPUTE over shipments of Canadian pork to the United States finally came to a clo

School is out. Children large and small are bringing report cards home, touting good grades as examp

TRY AS THEY MIGHT, government and industry rarely work well together. When the House cut a $24 milli

Now that the Israeli government has requested $13 billion of aid for the losses to the economy cause

The removal by Congress of many burdensome regulations from the trucking, railroad and maritime indu

LIFTING U.S. TRADE SANCTIONS against South Africa would send a powerful message of political approva

MALPRACTICE FEES ARE ON THE DECLINEYour editorial, "Medicine for Malpractice," (May 20) cont

JUST AFTER SOVIET PRESIDENT Mikhail Gorbachev has put out one domestic fire the coal miners strike

The European Community's plans for economic and monetary union are losing steam. The slowdown is sur

In 1980, U.S. typewriter makers were drowning in a sea of import competition,mainly from Jap

THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR announced last week that it is suing two companies for endangering employee

The socialist stumped the capitalist. What country outside of North America, the socialist w

The road to united Europe was never smooth. Lately, however, it has seemed all but impassable. This

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev's request for massive Western aid to support internal reforms has

FREE TRADE DOES NOT COME CHEAPLY. The new semiconductor trade agreement between the United States an

Four months ago, British Prime Minister John Major was basking in the glow of opinion polls that rat

Japan is a bureaucrat's daydream - a country where corporations actually cooperate when officials as

After approving a $1 billion loan to Moscow for agricultural purchases, President Bush plans to put

When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, he wasn't trying to link people in different loca

IN THE WAKE OF THE GULF WAR, Japan seems determined not to limit its role to financier in other worl

In nominating Robert Strauss as his ambassador to Moscow earlier this month, President Bush said the

FOR NEARLY 40 YEARS, the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor has been the watchdog for crime on

THE INTER-AMERICAN Development Bank is about to approve its first loan in line with the Bush adminis

In less than 60 days President Bush must announce whether he will appoint Alan Greenspan to a second

One, two, three strikes you're out, Washington, D.C. Another time at the bat, another sad walk to th

SEIZING PRIVATE PROPERTY for the public good is a right government should use sparingly. TheIntersta

JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT INFLATION had been stamped down for a while, it's rearing up just a little. Sho

The vision of Scandinavia as a group of like-minded countries sharing similar sentiments has been so

It's time to give China a serious demonstration of the "good cop, bad cop" routine. Both rol

IF YOU POLLUTE, YOU PAY. That simple tenet has been part of every environmental law approved by Cong

SHIPBUILDERS SUPPORT THE SUBSIDIES TALKSTom Wyman's letter to the editor (May 30) is one of

WHEN WILL THE TAXPAYERS' BILL for savings and loan failures stop growing? Don't hold your breath. Fo