R.C. Longworth

The idea sounds simple enough: People are smarter than governments think they are, and are certainly too smart to fool very much or very often. But this was heresy--in the...

In the book publishing trade, small has become beautiful. The hit of the late-summer season in bookstores is the Penguin 60s line, a collection of 60 palm-size works in paperback,...

In 1981, two bored and underpaid engineers named Jacek Socha and Andrzej Bilip quit their government jobs and opened a television repair shop in a Warsaw basement. Polish law permitted...

It is time for the United States to think hard about what it really wants the Russia of the future to be. Oh, sure, we'd like it to be a...

As Sears, Roebuck and Co. conceded this week, it's a grave new world out there for retailers. Long-established companies like Sears, with famous names that have graced Main Streets and...

To see what small-town America could become, you have to go to New York. Or Bethlehem. Both once were thriving little towns, about three miles apart, in the rolling hills...

Where Benno Schmidt goes, money follows. This, as much as his reputation as a scholar, seems to be why Christopher Whittle, the Knoxville entrepreneur who wants to reform American education,...

If foreign investment poses any threat to American military and economic security, the U.S. government doesn`t know about it, and doesn`t seem to want to know. Operating on a free-market...

They have been called the ''corporate equivalent of blood brotherhood.'' They are the keiretsus, and they give Japanese computer companies a financial and manufacturing clout that no American company can...

They have been called the ''corporate equivalent of blood brotherhood.'' They are the keiretsus, and they give Japanese computer companies a financial and manufacturing clout that no American company can...