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.

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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...

As inflation eases, a few big ticket items and everyday commodities are actually getting cheaper.

Members of the Biden administration met to discuss how to implement President Biden’s artificial intelligence executive order on Tuesday for the inaugural meeting of the White House AI Council, according to an official.   During the meeting, the officials received a classified intelligence briefing from the president's national security team to discuss the international dimensions...