He was a familiar byline in Newsweek and The Washington Post for decades, explaining the intricacies of economic policy in ...

For more than 40 years, he helped readers make sense of economics and society. His plainspoken columns were informed by his ...

The writer sought to explain the implications of unemployment, inflation, and government spending to ordinary readers for more than 40 years.

The discouraging March employment report, with a job gain of only 88,000, raises questions beyond the dreary state of today's labor market. Prolonged high joblessness may be silently shredding the ...

WASHINGTON For much of its 47-year existence, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has been a cartel in name only. It could not control oil prices because many of... Robert Samuelson: ...

WASHINGTON – You probably have never heard of oilman George Mitchell, but more than anyone else, he has changed the global energy outlook. In 1981, Mitchell's small petroleum company faced... July 19, ...

One curiosity of the cyber age is that the American public seems relatively unconcerned by what, arguably, is the biggest threat from the internet: attacks on the nation’s “critical infrastructure” — ...

WASHINGTON — We're all playing a guessing game. During the campaign, Donald Trump made many promises. But whether friend or foe, we don't know what he will actually do. The result is a deluge of ...

Just in case you hadn't noticed, no one has elected Grover Norquist to anything. Still, he looms as a major obstacle to Congress reaching a deficit-reduction agreement needed to raise the federal debt ...

WASHINGTON — There are lots of public policy problems that, even with the best of political goodwill, cannot be easily solved. They're just inherently tough. Fixing airline overbooking is not one of ...

If you've wondered why it's so hard to subdue budget deficits, you should consult a new study from the Congressional Budget Office called "Reducing the Deficit: Spending and Revenue Options" (free at ...

Four years after the onset of the financial crisis -- in March 2008 Bear Stearns was rescued from failure -- we still lack a clear understanding of the underlying causes. Hundreds of studies and books ...