William Neikirk

They tell me that politics changes the world. I have never believed it and, in fact, regarded it as a fiction spread by political leaders and the people who write...

What if they fought a war and nobody came? That is why Bush and Gorbachev held their summit, to figure out what to do with these costly war machines after...

Let the savings and loan debacle be a lesson to you, Mr. Gorbachev. A decade ago, this was a tightly regulated industry, including extremely low ceilings on interest rates to...

Sammy Davis Jr. always dazzled me. He swept across the stage with acrobatic grace and style and sang as sweet as any crooner of his day. As a young entertainer...

I knew it all along. I knew that George Bush was going to raise taxes. I never did believe that ''read my lips'' stuff, because I don`t read lips and...

One of the problems with today`s economy is that there are too many conclusions. In the old days, this would not have happened. Economists used to be modest about their...

It has been a cool spring in Chicago in more ways than one. Though the Midwest economy so far has escaped the more severe slowdown in other regions, chilly little...

Just as the people of Lithuania began to run out of gasoline because of a Soviet oil cutoff, General Motors Corp. stepped forward and announced it was going to produce...

Amid the whirling debris, cigarette butts and grit on the sidewalk at the Water Tower, the headline on the newspaper in the metal box stuck out: ''83 percent of Americans...

I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day little American trucks and cars, made to perfection by their producers, will traverse the crowded streets of Tokyo,...