Believers in central planning should take a look at Washington's Metro rail transit system. While they will find many things to like, they will also see examples of how central planners -- and especially rail transit planners -- can get things disastrously and expensively wrong.

An invitation to the world that works.

Itmay be prestigious for a city to host an airline hub, but are all thoseplanes on the tarmacworth higher fares and reduced competition?

Does America need long-distance trains? Is Amtrak politically invulnerable? Is Amtrak needed in case of a terror attack on airlines?

The government's suit against American Airlines last week, charging predatory price-cutting, attempts to revive a long-discredited, anticonsumer theory of monopolization.

TheUnited Statesis facing strategic disaster unless it begins a program of real, vital change.