William Neikirk

President Clinton is on the road again, selling his economic program. This is a very good thing to do, but the question still hangs over the country: which economic program?...

When Bill Clinton rises to speak about his programs, one often feels transformed back in time, back to another place. A didactic manner surges past his Southernisms and ultimately overwhelms...

At times, the pictures of mean and ugly war waged against helpless civilians penetrate the thick shell of indifference wrapped tightly about our atrophied souls. To crack the durable lining...

Commerce Secretary Ron Brown has exiled Herbert Hoover. The former president's portrait has hung for many years in the secretary's office, but now it is in what Brown calls a...

The fuss over President Clinton's stimulus package seems trivial to the economic cognescenti, a class to whom a billion dollars classifies as walking-around money. They have seen larger packages than...

President Clinton's billion-dollar aid package for Russia is going to be a hard sell. To many people, the man elected to take care of the domestic economy is sounding more...

Always there is Russia's past that arises and smites our swollen hopes. That authoritarian strain, that almost medieval concept of economy, emerges with uncomfortable rawness in times of intense internal...

Good health to Hillary Rodham Clinton in her efforts to reform the nation's health-care system. Quagmire is too weak a word to describe what she confronts. Those who have to...

The Clinton economic program, it seems, is evolving. Just when you think you have it pinned down, it escapes the grasp and changes again. The president's quick willingness to agree...

When someone claims to be Jesus, it raises both suspicion and expectation. Ambivalence melts away and coalesces into hard opinion on one side or the other. The Texas shootout is...