William Neikirk

Perhaps one of the most important things about the economic teach-in down in Little Rock is the way in which the president-elect is redefining job security. He said it often...

Chalk up a new role for the world cop in the post-Cold War era: halting hunger and starvation. The pitiful living skeletons of Somalia finally elicited a true humanitarian response...

Bill Clinton has swept Washington off its feet. And now it is assumed here that he will have a highly successful administration, chiefly because he knows how to play to...

The possibility of power always seems grander than its wielding. No matter how much the Clinton transition forces try, they cannot escape the intoxicating, fantastic qualities of unapplied, untested power...

Bill Clinton is going to call an economic summit to determine what should be done to give the droopy old American economy a needed boost. The last such president to...

Civility is back-and something more. No more chicken-feather states, ozone men, deep voodoos, bimbo eruptions, Iraqgates, bozos (should that be with an ''e,'' as in potatoes?) or untrustworthy, out of...

Drip, drip, drip. Trickle has become the operative word in the presidential campaign. Economic benefits are said to trickle down or, in defiance of nature, to trickle up. From Clinton,...

Unable to pull himself away from the gambling table long enough to dine, John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich, would slap a piece of meat between two pieces of...

When President Bush lost his dinner on the lap of the Japanese prime minister late last year, it underscored to Americans what a failure this mission had been and how...

Experience teaches. Experience guides action. Generals fight the last war, workers don`t change their routine much from day to day, and businesses produce and market based on established notions of...