Robert Samuelson

Even if Congress passes legislation -- a good bet -- the finished product will fall far short of Obama's extravagant promises. It will not cover everyone. It will not control...

By and large, the poor aren't poor because the rich are rich. They're usually poor for their own reasons: family breakdown, low skills, destructive personal habits and plain bad luck....

Demographer Jeffrey Passel of the Pew Hispanic Center estimates that about half of the last 100 million Americans are immigrants and their U.S.-born children. Without them, the population would be...

The scramble by congressional Republicans and White House officials to show they're serious about dealing with the budget recalls the 1950s novel "The Catcher in the Rye," whose main character,...

This election may be settled less in voting booths than in countless executive suites where hiring decisions are made. The irony is inescapable. An administration accused of being rabidly pro-business...

The political story of 2003 was, in some ways, the fashionability of "hate." It became respectable not simply to disagree with President Bush or to dislike him and criticize him--but...

The subplot of President Bush's trip to Asia this week is China's growing economic power. Twenty years ago, China barely traded with other countries. In 2002, it was the world's...