Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Washington Post columnist Robert J. Samuelson in 2019. - (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post) Robert J. Samuelson, who sought to ...

I read a Washington Post column of yours just after Christmas—the one about the fairness dilemma and how Baby Boomers need to take a hit on Social Security and Medicare. You’ve been making these ...

Services will be 11 a.m. Friday at United Methodist Church in Sutherland, with a military flag presentation. The Rev. Robin Thomas will officiate. Graveside services will be 1:30 p.m. Friday in Lone ...

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” — ...

Let’s celebrate a quiet revolution: the return of “full employment.” In the 1960s and 1970s politicians and economists clamored for it, defining full employment as an unemployment rate of 4 percent.

What if Hispanic immigration were the only thing worsening our poverty crisis — the inequality presidential candidate John Edwards speaks of when he talks about “Two Americas”? What would liberals ...

This is the summer of our discontent. As Americans celebrate July 4, they are mad at their leaders, mad at their government and mad at each other. A recent Pew poll finds that “public trust in ...

It isn’t often that economics raises the most profound questions of human existence, but recent work by economists Anne Case and Angus Deaton (husband and wife, both of Princeton University) comes ...

WASHINGTON -- It turns out that being American is bad for your health, relatively speaking. Anyone interested in health care ought to digest the findings of a massive new report from the National ...

THE PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS ARE HAVING ANOTHER trade debate, but there is less to it than meets the eye. The issue is no longer “”free trade” versus “”protectionism,” because history and technology ...

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 ...