by Jeff Jacoby | Jan 17, 2003 | Middle East & Israel, POLITICS
Even by the grim standards of recent years, the suicide bombings in Tel Aviv last week were horrific. The terrorists, members of the Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade (a wing of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah organization), positioned themselves at opposite ends of a busy... by James Glassman | Jan 17, 2003 | POLITICS
President Bush announced an economic recovery plan built on tax cuts. A Democratic president, John F. Kennedy, also faced with national security threats and a big stock-market decline, came to the same conclusion. On Dec. 14, 1962, JFK urged Congress to ”reduce... by S.M. Oliva | Jan 17, 2003 | Antitrust & Monopolies
A battle is looming in London as three companies prepare to vie for control of Safeway PLC, a major British supermarket chain unrelated to the U.S. company of the same name. Last week, Safeway agreed to a $4.6 billion buyout from William Morrison Supermarkets. That... by Ivan Osorio | Jan 16, 2003 | POLITICS
As the general strike against the leftist regime of Hugo Chavez grinds Venezuela’s economy to a standstill, American policymakers worry about disruption of oil shipments from the fourth-largest U.S. supplier and further instability. For the Bush administration... by Alexander Marriott | Jan 16, 2003 | POLITICS
American foreign policy. Ponder the words involved in this term. It doesn’t say “American foreign policy as approved by the world,” nor does it say “American foreign policy as approved by Mr. Chirac.” Yet we are hearing, from all... by Ralph R. Reiland | Jan 16, 2003 | POLITICS
Aside from the Democrats predictably complaining that President Bush’s tax cut proposal is too pro-rich, the big economic news is that doctors are on strike and McDonald’s isn’t making a dime. It probably doesn’t matter much to Gregory Rhymes... by Peter Schwartz | Jan 16, 2003 | POLITICS, Racism
President Bush faces an ideal opportunity to take a principled position on the issue of racial “diversity.” As his administration ponders whether to support the legal challenge, now before the Supreme Court, to the University of Michigan’s... by Don Luskin | Jan 15, 2003 | POLITICS
The shake-up of the Bush economic team has been the occasion for a lot of criticism of the administration’s domestic leadership. Indeed, I’ve been one of the harshest critics. Yet I think the Bush administration has done one thing very, very right when it... by Robert W Tracinski | Jan 15, 2003 | POLITICS
A recent news article described the nationwide strike in Venezuela, in protest against the nascent dictatorship of Hugo Chavez, as seeming “like something from fiction.” Well, yes, it seems very similar to one work of fiction in particular: Ayn...
