Commentary

Top-level U.S. officials may extend another invitation to Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu to visit Wash

IT'S ALMOST A REFLEX: Mention "competitiveness" and someone is sure to respond, "antitrust." There's

Electoral politics in Latin America are at cross-purposes with American-style political marketing te

THE UNITED STATES can't decide whether aircraft noise is a local problem or a national one. Europe h

The best of times and the worst of times. Europe, Japan and East Asia are booming. Eastern Europe st

Score another one for Congress's own sleuthing service, the General Accounting Office, which looks b

THE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION has never been known for its expansive attitude toward regu

Since the watershed events in Eastern and Central Europe last year, questions about institutional ch

Ports and harbors always have figured importantly in the history and fortunes of Malta. The National

The usually restrained David Mulford, the Treasury Department's top international official, is blowi

IT TOOK TWO MAJOR OIL SPILLS to bring the House and Senate closer on legislation to prevent and mana

IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER to do it three years ago, when the U.S. economy was riding high. But when

Octavio Paz, writing about the victory of Violeta Chamorro in Nicaragua's presidential election, mad

A whiff of intrigue always floats through Washington in the days before the Federal Open Market Comm

The Soviet reform effort seems to have stalled despite the urgent need toshift the Soviet ec

Only two months after taking office, the Bush administration announced a new strategy for dealing w

OVERWEIGHT CONTAINERS ARE CAUSING the nation's highways to crumble. But the Federal Maritime Commiss

EASTERN EUROPE NEEDS A HAND. It doesn't need a handout. The Bush administration' s call for U.S. com

DON'T COMBINE COST, FREIGHT IN FOOD AIDWe find some of the conclusions in the May 4 article

The freely elected governments of Eastern Europe have established their intellectual and political c

DON'T DO BUSINESS WITH CHINESE REGIMEI take strong exception to your editorial stance of May

SUPPOSE THERE IS AN EARTHQUAKE - a big one, far worse than the quake near San Francisco last October

When it comes to budget summits, it can be difficult to tell the spider from the fly. Techni

Insiders are pretty much agreed that the United States will soon cancel China's most-favored-nation

THE BILL FOR CLEANING UP the savings and loan crisis mounts month by month; estimates of over $300 b

THE U.S. SUGAR PROGRAM is a sweet deal for farmers. The owners of Hawaiian cane plantations and Nort

America's longest peacetime economic expansion is coming to an end, not with a bang but a nasty whim

Jacob Frenkel, the International Monetary Fund's research chief, recounted a ''good news, bad news"

TECHNOLOGY IS threatening personal privacy in new and previously unthinkable ways. That means the Pr

Is it the "biggest load of codswallop" or a "decisive breakthrough?" The accuracy of these d

Does the rising number of births to American women herald a new "baby boom" ? Final figures for 1989

IT'S TIME TO BICKER over the federal budget once again, and this year not even the most optimistic a

In the early 1980s there was widespread support for a U.S. industrial policy. Economists, however -

The Bush administration and Congress are trying to chart a new lineup for the International Trade Co

After decades of looking to the United States for export growth, the trading states of Asia have tar

By all evidence, the Cold War is over. The most fundamental implication of that fact is widely under

MEXICAN PRESIDENT Carlos Salinas de Gortari's 18 months in office have been a political high-wire ac

YOU MIGHT THINK THERE COULDN'T BE worse news than the high U.S. divorce rate. But if you think that,

In a concerted effort to cash in on a good thing, a group of American businessmen based in Hong Kong

NOTHING HAS PERPLEXED the pro-family president more than child care. Despite the political attractio