Commentary

CONGRESS MIGHT HAVE BEEN STUCK FOREVER in a circular argument. But fortunately, House and Senate con

President Bush may have worked his way out of a corner into which he had painted himself, but not wi

NELSON MANDELA'S 10-DAY U.S. tour produced a strong show of solidarity from the American people, a b

ACT WOULD PROTECT US LONGSHOREMENYour June 27 editorial, "Mis-Defining Dock Work," which att

THE 600-SHIP NAVY is an idea whose time has come and gone. With it has gone any justification for th

The leaders of the Western alliance will resemble gamblers in a high-stakes poker game next week as

SPACE SCIENTISTS WAITED over a decade for the Hubble Space Telescope. The orbiting space observation

Secretary of Transportation Samuel K. Skinner is turning up the heat on Los Angeles airport official

'Tis the season for patriotism once again. All over the land, at small-town parades and family picni

NO ONE WOULD ATTACH MUCH WEIGHT to the U.S. government's promise to do anything in the year 2000. Ye

For nearly 40 years, June 7 has been set aside in Mexico to celebrate ''Freedom of the Press" Day. T

IT TAKES SOME CREATIVE REASONING to justify more oil drilling off the U.S. coastline on environmenta

Exports are a mainstay of U.S. agriculture. Disposal of agricultural surpluses with subsidies in res

When we Baby Boomers decide we want some new contrivance, companies respond, lest they lose out on t

Boris Yeltsin, the new president of the Russian Federation, is using rhetoric, not rockets, to chall

GEORGE BUSH DESERVES CONGRATULATIONS. He finally did something unpopular. As a consummate po

IT USED TO BE that the Bush administration wanted to roll back sugar subsidies. But that was before

THE U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE IS SERIOUS about making import processing more efficient. That's about the

In recent years, environmental liability has been a constant source of new risks for the American bu

ORLANDO BOSCH SHOULD BE FREEDThe Journal of Commerce is too fine a newspaper to become an ec

All those who are most anxious to set in place successful movement toward economic and monetary unio

THE CAPTAIN IS A BRITON, his crew Filipino. The Norwegian-owned cruise ship plies the Caribbean unde

Every big city throughout the world fights traffic these days. But Tokyo, one of the most highly dev

A year ago, Washington adopted sweeping legislation to bail out millions of depositors in failed sav

This year marks the 30th anniversary of one of the most significant sets of labor agreements in U.S.

As the United States and the Soviet Union sign arms limitation agreements, Japan continues its defen

The leaders of the European Community will bask in the limelight today as they take another step tow

Deregulation has enhanced the efficiency of railroad operations and produced substantial benefits fo

THE SONG SOUNDS terribly familiar: achieving social peace in Central America requires economic progr

AFTER MONTHS OF EQUIVOCATION, the Fish and Wildlife Service declared the spotted owl to be a threate

Interstate Commerce Commission Chairman Edward J. Philbin gave Independence Day revelers one less re

CONGRESS STILL CAN'T AGREE on a way to fix the Customs user fee. The current congressional standoff

A scandal soon may break on these pages. According to the Washington rumor mill, influential members

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission proposed a major regulatory change to curtail sharply the l

WHICH SHOULD COME FIRST, democracy or economic aid? For East European countries, foreign aid and inv

WHEN IT COMES TO POLLUTING, farmers have had a free ride. Federal laws and regulations do almost no

It's easy to see why America has lost its supremacy in high technology after reading Jean-Claude Der

When President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev concluded their recent summit meeting, th

Politics has ruined America's urban schools. This is no secret for anyone who has followed t

THE LESSONS OF THE savings and loan industry's costly collapse have been slow to sink in in Congress