WASHINGTON — Welcome to the Age of Malware. It promises to be a huge downer and, possibly, a great tragedy. For years, we have regarded personal computers, the internet, smartphones and various ...

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 ...

If you want to understand why the tax code is so hard to overhaul, consider the case of the mortgage interest deduction. The issue is so sensitive that the House and Senate are dealing with it in ...

Those who haven't been following the New York Times Economix blog may have been a trifle surprised yesterday by Robert Samuelson's emphatic denunciation of the Obama administration's ideas for a ...

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 ...

When historians examine President Trump's tax program, they will surely be struck by a large and momentous contradiction. Although the nation faces endless budget deficits -- and although the ...

WASHINGTON -- Call it the superdollar. On foreign-exchange markets, the dollar has reigned supreme for years. It symbolizes America's economic power -- and now the world economy's potential ...

WASHINGTON -- President Trump's education in global trade continues. Not long ago, he declared that trade wars "are good and easy to win." He knows better now. The administration's performance in its ...