R.C. Longworth

Twenty-seven years ago, as the farm economy around this northeast Iowa town began to wither, local businesses dipped into their own pockets and raised $285,000 to lure Sara Lee Corp....

Here's how to destroy a country. Start with World War II. Add 45 years of communism under Marshal Tito and 10 years of the crony communism of Slobodan Milosevic. Throw...

Chicago, the mightiest symbol of the Industrial Age, is retooling itself for the Global Era. As economies across the world become more interconnected than ever, the stakes are higher for...

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,...

Not long after the first Labor Day celebration, a New York parade in 1882, the holiday's creator felt obliged to issue a statement that reports of the union movement's death...

In mid-1993, Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington published an article in Foreign Affairs that sparked more debate than anything the magazine had published in the previous 45 years. Huntington argued...

The exterior of the squat beige building just over the Illinois line in Hobart, Ind., resembles a thousand other nondescript offices dotting the Midwest. But inside, going about their business,...

President Clinton claimed credit for a major free-trade victory Monday after persuading the heads of 17 other Pacific Rim countries to support worldwide elimination of tariffs on most technology products...

What's the purpose of an economy? If it's not for the well-being of the people who live in it, what then is it for? For most of the last 50...

The best safety record of any plane in aviation history has ended in the Andes of Colombia. The crash Wednesday of American Airlines Flight 965 en route from Miami to...