Only two of the areas, Salt Lake City and Baltimore, saw a gain in office use, and the Seattle-Bellevue market area had the third highest drop in office occupancy.

The progressive lane for mayor and the vacant council seat is getting crowded, and the center-left lane has not recruited strong candidates.

Biden is off to a fast start, and Team Biden has a common theme: carbon transition means lots of jobs. But industry and GOP allies in Congress are armed and ready for the assault.

On Monday, the Myanmar generals did what Trump and the mob that stormed the Capitol failed to do. They overturned the elected government and arrested its leadership and many civil-society leaders.

More likely, Bezos is following the path of Bill Gates, finding his passion in solving some of the world's mighty problems.

“I have deeply offended him simply by surviving the assassination attempt that he ordered” -- Alexei Navalny said of Putin at his hearing.

Girard's sweeping theory meshes with the all-against-all world of tech tinged with apocalyptic twilight and Freud's Totem and Taboo.

Getting our city back economically is vital to our overall recovery from this pandemic catastrophe. That will take all of us moving together, not sniping for political advantage.

Because Lincoln was a Republican and Johnson a Democrat, they formed a new party, called the National Union Party. (You can thereby reject the Republican party’s cherished epithet “The Party of Lincoln.”)

Forbes has a long story on Portland, Oregon, probing whether the city has shot itself in the foot by all those protests, poor political...

Trump will go down as “a great president,” said national radio host Dennis Prager, quickly adding a caveat: “Great presidents have great flaws.” He added one wish for the exiled 45th president: “I wish, instead of a new party, Donald Trump will create a new Internet.”

“As history shows, most dictatorships fall not under the power of their opponents but under the weight of their own mistakes. It seems that Putin's will not be an exception.” -- Vladimir Kara-Murza in the Washington Post opinion section

A televised Senate trial is almost as good as Twitter for the muzzled Don.

It's probably not a surprise that it took some unusual factors to help bring so many women into power positions. The year-long pandemic likely played a role in changing voters' outlook on who and what matters. Social unrest also may have been a factor.

Allocating vaccine according to professional, social or economic status only deepens the grievous race and class disparities we’ve already seen in deaths and other pandemic impacts.

With Trump no longer president, I feared satirical blogging could change from guessing his next tweet to requiring real work.

“Trump has provoked a debate among legal scholars over whether the once-sacrosanct constitutional protection of free speech has itself become a threat to democracy by enabling the widespread and instantaneous transmission of lies in the service of political gain.”

Since Clinton, Republican opposition to arms treaties has stopped the progress on agreements. Trump pretty much tossed out all the previous pacts.

Social media, Yuval Levin notes, intentionally blurs the lines between pubic and private, between inside (think “safe” inner circle) and outside (the whole damn world), as well as between formal (situations of some gravity and sensitivity in which restraint and decorum serve to protect us) and informality (let it all hang out).

A tech-savvy progressive firebrand, Nguyen, 37, came from basically nowhere to beat Constantine’s chosen candidate in the 2018 race for Constantine's old seat in the state Senate.

That the board did not select an experienced superintendent as the interim, as is typically done, likely indicates that the board wants to take charge.

Can we reduce "genius" to an equation? Here's the fun story of the Yale professor who tried.

Wigmore is streaming full-cost concerts, and donated money is rolling in. But this is far from a sustainable model for this musical mecca.

Post Alley has managed to get its hands on a fake confidential memo from the CEO of Comcast to the leadership of Fox News

Cracks have started appearing in Inslee's ambitious proposals. To bond or not to bond? Fuels tax or cap-and-trade? Old bargains or the new imperative of environmental justice?

Trump's press conferences were performances for his media-hating base. Biden's are back to normal, which is not to say that the new President will find them smooth sailing.

Hell hath no fury like that of blue or red party loyalists when one of their own deviates from the party line. They pass resolutions, go on talk radio, and send off angry letters. Still, it’s usually mainly noise, justifying a wise observation by the late Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Chuck Noll: “The empty drum bangs loudest.”

"I don’t think I had to bring about editorial changes. This was already a hard-working newsroom with a lot of talented journalists. I think I stressed that message of 'urgency every day' and going deeper on stories and turning them faster."

Is there something here I’m not getting? Yes, Trump merits impeachment for trying to overturn a legitimate election and the constitutional system underlying it and stoking the attack on the Capitol through two-plus months of false and inciteful claims. Still, why? This impeachment was a mug’s game from the start, and it looks even worse now.