Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson in 2019. - (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to ...

Those who haven't been following the New York Times Economix blog may have been a trifle surprised yesterday by Robert Samuelson's emphatic denunciation of the Obama administration's ideas for a ...

In America, we believe that anyone can grow up to be anything. You want to be president? Go for it. Among recent presidents, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Lyndon Johnson and Dwight Eisenhower all came ...

; AS A PORTENT OF THE 1996 ELECTION, THE “FLAT TAX” is the political equivalent of pulp fiction. It’s an escapist evasion of the real choices about the size and the role of government that Americans ...

Asserting that health care reform has “sown the seeds” of a “budget crisis,” Washington Post columnist Robert Samuelson claimed CBO's estimate that the law will reduce deficits by $143 billion over 10 ...

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 ...

If you want to understand why the tax code is so hard to overhaul, consider the case of the mortgage interest deduction. The issue is so sensitive that the House and Senate are dealing with it in ...

WASHINGTON — The popular appeal of a single-payer system to solve the nation's health care problems is no secret. Everyone would have insurance, recognizing — as Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Brazil can't seem to catch a break. It's suffering the worst economic slump in decades; its president may be thrown out of office; it's contending with the zika virus. Now come the huge ...

The discouraging March employment report, with a job gain of only 88,000, raises questions beyond the dreary state of today's labor market. Prolonged high joblessness may be silently shredding the ...