Commentary

LOBBIES ARE LINING UP for what could be a bitter battle over President Bush's proposal to renew the

The recent launch of the Polish Stock Exchange - Eastern Europe's third after previous stock market

Rate-setting conferences in the maritime industry have faced stiff criticism lately, but rumors of t

The growing gap between rich and poor, and even between the rich and the middle class, is now an est

FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS IN ASIA, skittish about interfering in bilateral relations between the United S

Late last week, after Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev apparently had asked for $100 billion in We

THE COLD WAR ISN'T OVER. Try selling a fiber-optic phone system to the Soviet Union and the U.S. go

The Big Three auto manufacturers Chrysler, Ford and General Motors must wonder whether they're ste

REP. GIBBONS' BILL CAN'T SAVE SHIPYARDSYour editorial "Shipbuilding Subsidies" (May 13) is o

Earlier this month, the Bush administration told Congress the nation's bridges are in shambles. Engi

WHEN A DANISH SHIPPING LINE cut its rates last week to attract new business, competitors cried foul.

Every day crowds of Japanese walk the streets of tree-lined Omotosando avenue in Tokyo's Harajuku di

This is a tough time to be a central banker. The marriage between money and politics is always storm

THE FUTURE OF HIGH-TECH RAIL in America is off to a bad start. Two European groups are battling each

Beware of the elation following last week's vote by the Soviet parliament granting its citizens the

Congress has a chance to recast America's outmoded trade policies toward the People's Republic of Ch

INITIAL HOPES that the Persian Gulf war would stimulate a serious review of U.S. maritime policy are

AFTER SOME CONFUSION, U.S. and Japanese officials are nearing an agreement on trade in semiconductor

US SHOULD STOP CRITICIZING THE EBRDCurtis Hoxter's editorial article "Mr. Attali's Grand Vis

CONGRESS SEEMS EVEN MORE ANGRY this year than last as the second anniversary of Beijing's senseless

DON'T BUILD NEW 'TOWER OF BABEL'The May 14 opinion article recommending re-regulation of the

Brazil's investors, creditors and trade partners will be watching closely during the next few months

It is spring, and tax bills are sprouting new buds of hope for the middle class. You know the middle

TRUCKERS ARE ASKING CONGRESS for the right to drive triple-trailer rigs over major highways nationw

INDIA'S INTRACTABLE PROBLEMS have defied solution since the country won its independence from Britai

At the U.S. Capitol this morning, a congressional official will walk to an 1840s telegraph key and r

The decision of a congressional subcommittee to deny construction money for the space station is a b

Unlike other industries only now beginning to feel the pinch of wetlands protection, coal companies

WE'VE SEEN PLANS for Soviet economic reform come and go. The most promising proposal, the "500-Day

Official Washington suddenly has awakened to the fact that the Treasury deficit this year will be f

WHEN THE UNITED STATES AND JAPAN discuss their trade imbalance, U.S. officials complain of chummy Ja

Early in the Persian Gulf unpleasantness, a Middle East expert named Fouad Ajami kept making sense i

The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center has issued "a backgrounder." Across the paper

MEXICAN PRESIDENT Carlos Salinas isn't usually considered one of the world's top environmentalists.

LEAHY BILL WEAKENS FOOD SAFETYYour article "Pesticide Export Issue Heats Up in Congress" (Ap

DELIVERING MAIL ON TIME is a constant challenge for the Postal Service. To help meet that goal, the

On April 15th a new international organization made its debut. The European Bank for Reconstruction

Jacques Delors is arguably the most intriguing man in Europe. To be sure, Europe is a very large pl

The American Medical Association fired its big guns, set off its bells and whistles, turned out its

THE FINGER OF BLAME for soaring health care costs always points to doctors' high malpractice insuran