I read a Washington Post column of yours just after Christmas—the one about the fairness dilemma and how Baby Boomers need to take a hit on Social Security and Medicare. You’ve been making these ...

One curiosity of the cyber age is that the American public seems relatively unconcerned by what, arguably, is the biggest threat from the internet: attacks on the nation’s “critical infrastructure” — ...

We can understand the Jamestown City Council’s thinking in not paying to send Capt. Robert Samuelson to the FBI National Academy for training this summer. The city has seen a spike in gun crimes that ...

It isn’t often that economics raises the most profound questions of human existence, but recent work by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton (husband and wife, both of Princeton University) comes ...

Robert Samuelson is right that Steve Case's deal combining AOL and Time Warner hasn't worked out in the short run and may not in the long run for a variety of reasons, some of which have nothing to do ...

This is the summer of our discontent. As Americans celebrate July 4, they are mad at their leaders, mad at their government and mad at each other. A recent Pew poll finds that “public trust in ...

1. Young people currently benefit from Social Security and Medicaid and will continue to enjoy its benefits when they get older. Samuelson mistakenly labels entitlement spending as a payout to today’s ...

Just what kind of economic slump will this be? It’s too early to know, but it’s not too early to speculate. I’ve done a totally unscientific survey of economic forecasts. Some were solicited by me; ...

WASHINGTON – No one has worked more aggressively to trigger impeachment than the president. You may remember that, during the campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump suggested that, should he win, he ...