That Harvard University is standing by its beleaguered president, Claudine Gay, should not be a surprise: Gay is a perfect representation of the arrogant mediocrity of the university and its brand.

With a new year beckoning and mixed signals on how the economy is doing, let’s see what the data are telling us about 2024’s prospects and what that means for those holding some of the economic levers at the Federal Reserve.

While America struggles to buy groceries, President Joe Biden has a green slush fund worth billions of dollars, and he’s not afraid to use it.

Violent crime has plagued the country for several years. Many of the nation’s once heralded booming metropolitan areas have regressed into crime-ridden cesspools that more resemble dystopian horrors than cities in America.

Over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, on Nov. 24, The Seattle Times published an insightful op-ed by state Sen. Brad Hawkins, R-Wenatchee, Ranking Minority member of the Senate Early Learning and K-12 Committee. The Seattle Times maintains a Comments Section to “encourage constructive conversations about the facts in our articles.” The paper keeps the comments section open for 72 hours to allow this discussion.

Across the country, land-use officials are grappling with chronic housing shortages — the result of longstanding legal and policy failures, including archaic zoning rules and ongoing labor and supply shortages. From Seattle to Key West, to Calabasas, there simply is not enough housing for the American people. Among the many potential solutions pro-housing advocates have proposed are so-called “build-to-rent” (BTR) developments — indistinguishable from traditional single-family tracts, except that their occupants are tenants instead of owners. That’s it.

Illinois has banned construction of new nuclear power plants for the past 36 years, since 1987. That’s a real predicament for a state that already relies heavily on that energy source for 53% of its electricity needs.

What do mega-billionaire Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos and Daily Wire founder and editor Ben Shapiro have in common?

If the law is working, what explains Trump’s hesitancy to embrace it?

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) told reporters Tuesday that it will be “practically impossible” to pass legislation providing more military aid to Ukraine before Christmas and urged President Biden to get more involved in the stalled negotiations. “All I have said is [it’s] practically impossible, even though we reach an agreement, to craft...