Merrill Goozner

Since Republican Sen. Barry's Goldwater's disastrous 1964 run for the presidency, no presidential nominee has proposed major changes in Social Security, which is often called the third rail of American...

A highly choreographed day of demonstrations against free trade and globalization ended Monday with hundreds of rain-soaked demonstrators being arrested on a "voluntary" basis, no interruption in a meeting of...

On the eve of protests against International Monetary Fund and World Bank policies in the developing world, bank President James Wolfensohn on Wednesday rejected calls for sweeping change, saying his...

At Charles Schwab & Co. Inc's. Michigan Avenue brokerage office on Tuesday, Keith Klamer, a 40-year-old advertising copy writer, took the plunge. Just one day after receiving an inheritance from...

Even as Seattle authorities arrested hundreds in a renewed clampdown on demonstrations, President Clinton warned a meeting of the World Trade Organization on Wednesday that legitimate protesters must have a...

The partners in recent corporate mergers have been true titans, with names like Chrysler and Daimler-Benz, or Ameritech and SBC Communications, or Travelers and Citicorp. The money involved--$70 billion here,...

Ameritech? Gone. First Chicago? Gone. Stone Container? Gone. U.S. Robotics? Gone. Call a dozen business economists, and you'll get a dozen reasons for the wave of mergers that's sweeping away...

For many American families, it has been a once-in-a-lifetime embarrassment of riches. They've watched their personal wealth soar along with the Dow Jones industrial average. But for well over half...

The Clinton administration is discussing with other United Nations members a last-ditch diplomatic mission to Baghdad later this week by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who would lay out the...

In 1966, the early days of Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution, a teenage Wei Jingsheng took to the Chinese countryside with other idealistic Red Guards to "learn from the workers and...