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WASHINGTON – The most uncovered story in Washington these days is the loss of U.S. military power – a lesson particularly important in light of recent events: the resignation of Defense Secretary...
DATE: Dec. 24, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – Here’s today’s economic quiz: Was the 2007-09 Great Recession more damaging than the Great Depression of the 1930s? Surely the answer is “no.” In the 1930s, unemployment reached 25...
DATE: Nov. 29, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – If there were any doubt before, there should be none now. “Solving” the global climate change problem may be humankind’s mission impossible. That’s the gist of the latest report from...
DATE: Oct. 15, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – More than 20 years ago, I wrote that Americans would solve their most pressing problems through either consensus or crisis. We would debate the country’s controversial issues until we...
DATE: Sept. 10, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – It’s an axiom among many Americans that each future generation will live better than its predecessor. New technologies, greater efficiencies and a can-do spirit will reward us with...
DATE: Aug. 6, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – The Trump administration may have declared it over, but a new War on Poverty is coming anyways. It will be fought largely over the concept of a “work requirement.” Should the...
DATE: July 19, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – As we near July Fourth, America has taken a turn for the worst. The great delusion of Donald Trump’s presidency is that we can thrive by embracing nationalism even though major...
DATE: July 2, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – The ghost of Smoot-Hawley seems to haunt President Trump. You will recall that Smoot-Hawley was the sweeping tariff legislation that Congress passed and President Hoover signed in...
DATE: June 28, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – The escalating trade war between the United States and China poses crucial, though unanswerable, questions: Is this the beginning of the end of the post-World War II international...
DATE: June 22, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – You cannot understand President Trump’s so-called “trade war” without acknowledging that it’s mostly about politics and not about economics. Trump has embarked on a giant marketing...
DATE: June 11, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – If you’re nostalgic for the 2008-09 financial crisis, you can cheer up. Another debacle may be on its way. Its epicenter would be Italy, which may threaten the rest of the world...
DATE: May 31, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON – We flatter ourselves into thinking that we live in a time of exceptional economic upheaval. The truth is that the present resembles the past. What we learned – and forget – is that a...
DATE: May 21, 2018 | COLUMN: Robert Samuelson
