Stephen Franklin

Officials from the United Steelworkers union and Bridgestone/Firestone Corp. met in Chicago for the first time in six months Monday to resolve a bitter 16-month-old dispute. Both sides have vowed...

Hisham Siam instantly whispered a silent prayer. "Don't let an Arab be the killer. Don't let this bring more trouble for us," said Siam, a Chicago taxi driver who left...

To Henry Wall, the news of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination will serve as a defining moment, seared as indelibly into his psyche as when he heard three decades ago that President...

Someone in the shoes of Helen Acamovich is not supposed to be frustrated and concerned about her career, or harboring fears, as she does, of finally hitting the "glass ceiling."...

Roger Berg will tell you-he is not one of those angry white males looking for somebody, anybody, to blame for the economic turmoil around him. He knows he's not the...

When agribusiness giant Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. decided several years ago to start selling lysine, an amino acid used in animal feed, competitors swallowed hard. They were right to do so. As...

Within hours of the Supreme Court's decision Monday on federal affirmative action plans, many people had written the obituary for programs that benefit minorities. By holding federal programs to the...

The neatest thing about being a swing manager at McDonald's, Gigi Vasquez said, bright-eyed and brimming with enthusiasm, is respect. "Before, I worked in a hot dog stand, and nobody...

Until the terrorist bombing that stunned a nation, most Americans best knew this wind-swept, rawboned Plains state from Rodgers & Hammerstein's vibrant musical "Oklahoma!" or John Steinbeck's grim Dust Bowl...

The dream was success and long-term stability-long shots in the U.S. auto industry-and the genie was a midsize family sedan, the Ford Taurus. For nearly a decade, building the best-selling...