It now appears likely that much of the 1996 presidential race will be fought on traditional class-warfare turf.

Clinton is popular because he understands the times perfectly. But he won't be great, because he can't rise above the times.

The tax cuts proposed by the President and by the GOP don't look all that different. There is a serious debate going on, however.

Have the American people become disengaged from a moral view of public life?

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

If the United Nations is able to obstruct NATO action on the ground, or if Russian or other non-NATO troops are deployed in ways in which they can obstruct such action, the plan would be fatally flawed.

Friday will kick off a different and more challenging stage of the race, with complicated and sometimes conflicting goals facing both political parties.