Robert Samuelson

What we have learned from the great blackout of 2003 is that electricity "deregulation" is a mirage. It's premature--and perhaps wrong--to blame last week's massive failure on deregulation, especially because...

"Even at the Times' lowest moment, which may be right about now, it is almost impossible to exaggerate the paper's significance . . . (A)n event it doesn't cover might,...

One theme of American history is the quest of outsiders to become insiders. The methods have not always been squeaky-clean. Hordes of Irish immigrants--as Michael Barone recounts in his book...

To anyone with a sense of history, the Bush administration's decision to bless a cheaper dollar must seem disquieting. It may be defensible as economic policy or simply as acceptance...

In 1999, America Online published a collection of Steve Case's speeches modestly titled "Looking Ahead to the Internet Century." It contained Case's musings on how the Internet would change education,...

It is Feb. 7, 2003, just after American troops have seized several Iraqi airfields to be used as staging areas. Suddenly, Scud missiles--armed with both chemical and conventional warheads--strike the...

Every law school should offer a course in legal ethics called "How Lawyers Abuse the Law." The first case study would be asbestos litigation, which shows how the thirst for...

The Japanese may finally be ready to treat the Japanese disease--which, if they succeed, would be a good thing for the United States and the world. The Japanese disease is...

One casualty of the slipping stock market has been "investor politics." Conceived mainly by conservative commentators, the idea was that the expansion of stock ownership in the late 1990s (about...

The whole course of American history is, in some respects, a quest to subdue our surroundings, whether by conquering the frontier or converting other peoples to our political and economic...