Commentary

After six years of advocating free trade, the great policy surprise of 1987 may be an embracing of t

WILL THE HIGHWAY BILL falter again this year, as it did last year, over the issue of the 55 mph spee

WHAT A WONDERFUL STORY. According to an article in American Heritage magazine, Winston Churchill dro

Progress on political and economic reforms in China is likely to be frozen until the Communist Party

Figures about the international trade deficit, especially the deficit with Japan, are in the newspap

LOST AMID THE COMMOTION about the plunging dollar and the U.S.-European Community trade scuffle is t

I have been warned that the part of London in which I live is in danger of becoming, in terms of der

The rise of industrial robots is irresistible and irreversible. They are getting better and cheaper.

''THE MALTESE FALCON," with Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, is the latest old movie to be subjected

The last two years have been the worst ever for the international shipping fraternity , and there ar

THERE'S GOOD NEWS on the trade front, right? Well, perhaps. The figures forDecember put the

IN "THE GUNS OF AUGUST," Barbara Tuchman tells how in 1914 a minor political incident in an small Ba

In Dick Lawrence's excellent article (JofC, Jan. 12) highlighting the crucial role of the United St

If you call Van Doorn Ooms in Washington, a recorded voice comes on the line and repeats a couple of

''The federal deficit is outrageous," President Reagan declared in his State of the Union address th

The corporate critics trying to follow the story line in the Great Tax Reform Act of 1986 are pannin

In a seedy office in a rundown, second-floor walk-up here, the computer software business appears to

THE PAPERWORK MOUNTAIN, like a newly formed volcano, is rising another few thousand feet. Within th

Karl Otto Poehl, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, has laid it on the line. Under relentless pre

AS A TELEVISION EVENT, which is how it must be evaluated, President Reagan's State of the Union add

Moonlighting appears to be more widespread in Denmark than ever before, despite efforts by the tax a

Gary Wills' book, "Reagan's America: Innocents at Home," was in print and on the way to bookstores

The link between food supply and political stability is as old as history. Egyptian pharaohs stored

Foreign investors have become a powerful influence in the U.S. money and capital markets. Du

It was a quiet week here in Washington. Some of the relative stillness was due to the two sn

WE HAVE GENERALLY HIGH REGARD for Secretary of the Treasury James A. Baker III. But when he begs us,

JAPAN'S DECISION TO ABANDON, if only by a tiny fraction, its policy of limiting its defense budget t

THE STRIKE ON THE Long Island Rail Road, the nation's biggest commuter rail line, hardly looms large

The mounting U.S. trade deficit with Japan has sparked increasing criticism in Congress and the medi

ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO, most experiments in loading cargo directly from ships totrains ended i

Rail Merger Expected To Benefit ShipperYour editorial "Needed: A Larger Look" (JofC, Dec. 4)

THE WIDOW OF PIONEER ASTRONAUT Virgil I. Gus" Grissom is urging the survivors of the seven dead Chal

The big winner of the Sunday West German election was the Greens, the left radical party that oppose

The one big investor-backed institution in the city of London, which has escaped the control of the

As the fallout from the Guinness affair continues, the British government is doing everything it can

The president and Congress missed three big opportunities for reform in the Tax Reform Act of 1986.<

HAVING GOBBLED UP all the easy takeovers, the wolves are now circling Pan American World Airways. A

THE NEW YORK CHAPTER of the Alumni Association of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy did something unu

FIVE YEARS AGO, long before the Iran-contra affair, a group of prominent political figures from both

THE PORT OF NEW YORK has another empty marine terminal on its hands. With United States Lines protec