Commentary

Let's start with the so-called Boston-Austin axis and the 28-year-old Dukakis- Bentsen analogy with

EVIDENCE CONTINUES TO MOUNT that Brazil is sliding into economic chaos. Yet for reasons that are har

THE RECENT CONFERENCE of the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast District of the International Longshoreme

IN 1971, PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON said federally funded child care would Sovietize the United States.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED when the International Trade Commission met last week to hear the merits of n

Democratic presidential candidate Michael Dukakis is expected to release a detailed position paper o

George Bush would do well to select Elizabeth Hanford Dole as his vice presidential running mate. Ot

Since January 1988, the federal funds rate - the rate banks charge each other for overnight loans -

THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION took a small step this month that reinforces its commitment

MAQUILADORAS, THE IN-BOND FACTORIES that have turned the U.S.-Mexican border into a beehive of manuf

Japan's central bank governor Satoshi Sumita remarked on his return from the recent meeting of the B

LOGISTICS ESSENTIAL TO JUST-IN-TIMEA goal and benefit of Just-in-Time systems is to cut down

In the old days, say three or four months ago, finding out what was happening inside the Mexican gov

For eight bloody years, the Iran-Iraq War has forced changes in many diplomatic, political and econo

THE TALK IS OF PEACE, but the war between Iran and Iraq remains bloody. Unexpectedly, the struggle h

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev would obviously like his East European colleagues to make their econ

Faced with the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, the European Community's 1992 market integration pl

THE NAME MAY BE DROUGHT RELIEF, but the real purpose of the farm assistance bills now before Congres

THE NATIONAL POLITICAL CONVENTIONS, the pundits say, have become too predictable to merit prime time

BUILDING ROADS in developing countries has long been a major aim of the World Bank. But in a candid

The Democrats had a ball in Atlanta last week. They promised to cure social problems ranging from dr

For the first time since Ronald Reagan became president, the United States now has a unified foreign

Japanese businessmen can always find something to worry about, so it should be no surprise that the

DROUGHT HAS ACCOMPLISHED what neither free-market government nor consumer protest has been able to a

In June, 10 state attorneys general joined their colleagues from nine other states in charging 31 in

Two-thirds of the French population are going on vacation and most of them leave this weekend, pilin

HINTZ'S RETIREMENT WAS PLANNED IN '87Your July 15 article on Alex Mandl becoming chairman an

THE LEADER OF CANADA'S LIBERAL PARTY, John Turner, may think he delivered a political masterstroke b

INSURERS LOVE STATE REGULATION, so much so that 14 industry trade groups call their joint campaign a

Negotiations between the Philippines and the United States concerning the future of Subic Bay Naval

As my youngest son walked forward to obtain his high school diploma on the football field where he p

SUPPORTERS OF PRESIDENTIAL nominee Michael Dukakis made it very clear last week at the Democratic Na

WILLIAM J. MCCARTHY, THE NEW PRESIDENT of the Teamsters union, has his workcut out for him.

In the queer mess of human destiny, historian William Woodward reminds us, the determining factor is

ANIMAL RIGHTS STATEMENTS CLARIFIEDNow that I've received a dozen copies of your publication'

RAINS IN THE MIDWEST have not damped Washington's feverish efforts to send emergency relief to farme

It is fascinating to be present at the creation of a new application of international law, covering

Demand for drugs takes the form of electric charges rushing through a barrage of chemicals to flood

The debate over the value of foreign capital investments in the United States is proceeding nowhere

THE WORRYWARTS ARE ALREADY FRETTING over this week's revelation that no U.S. banks are among the wor