Robert Samuelson

If my wife or children become sick, I want the best possible medical care for them. I might even like the same for myself. We all would. But if all...

John Koskinen hopes to imitate the Maytag repairman: to become a fix-it man with nothing to fix. He heads the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion, which makes him the...

The clean little secret about teenage sex is that there's less of it than there used to be: not much less but enough to reverse a long, upward spiral. You...

The trouble with Japan is that it is run by the Japanese. Their consensus-seeking culture seems capable of great changes only after calamity shows that change is inevitable. Japanese history...

We are being reminded once again that erratic shifts of global monies--called "capital flows"--are the curse of the world economy. As investors, bankers and currency traders seek the highest returns,...

If the cigarette bill were truthfully labeled, it would be called "The National Tobacco Policy and Lawyer Enrichment Act." It's welfare for lawyers: a brazen model of social injustice. We...

During the Civil War, the federal debt expanded about 40 times, from $65 million in 1860 to $2.7 billion--a phenomenal figure at the time--in 1865. But after the war, Americans...

We know that today's economic boom will someday end, because all booms do. Yet, faith in its immortality seems to grow almost daily. You see it in the stock market...

As fate would have it, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona is guiding the tobacco bill through the Senate. The irony is that McCain has championed campaign finance reform, and...

Automobile liability insurance is an enduring national disgrace. It has become an employment program for lawyers that imposes excessive premiums on motorists and undercompensates seriously injured accident victims. The system...