Robert Samuelson

The "new economy" has quickly gotten old. A few weeks ago, I cautioned against the soothing notion that we had entered a prolonged period of economic bliss. Right on cue...

The media are deeply sensitive to the rights of "minorities": the poor, the disabled, blacks, gays and immigrants, among others. But there is one minority much larger than any of...

Gates has "achieved an unprecedented, and still growing, impact on the civilized world." --Newsweek, Aug. 18, 1997 Bill Gates isn't God--not yet. Every so often, the media anoint some business...

Americans tend to view the rich the same way they view the poor. We informally split them into the deserving and the undeserving. We accept the deserving poor, because we...

Is Alan Greenspan a fraud? The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board has built a reputation as a miracle-worker. He's the man, more than any other, who's given credit for...

It is a close call whether the present federal budget package--nearing final congressional approval-- will be good or bad for the country. The gains and setbacks are finely balanced, and...

Global warming may or may not be the great environmental crisis of the next century, but--regardless of whether it is or isn't--we won't do much about it. We will argue...

One of our enduring national illusions is that we can correct every injustice or social imperfection by passing a law. What we don't like we'll just make illegal. The impulse...

We had a small announcement from IBM the other day that could have large consequences for education. IBM said it has begun asking for high school transcripts from young workers...

We are now witnessing--most recently in France but also in the United States and elsewhere--the triumph of conservatism. This is not, of course, what you're hearing. "Europe has turned left,"...