People march to take part in a anti-Putin rally in central Moscow, on Feb. 4, 2012, to urge Putin to quit power ahead of March 4 polls in which Putin is planning to reclaim his old Kremlin job. Tens...

: An increase in 245,000 payroll jobs was about 100,000 above expectations (at 150,000). But exactly a year ago, the experts were calling for a January 2011 increase of about 140,000 jobs and the...

The Nation. Last week's job numbers were a welcome surprise: 243,000 people were added to payrolls in the past month, which is far more than the 140,000 analysts were predicting. Encouragingly,...

The O'Jays perform at the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear on the National Mall on Oct. 30, 2010 in Washington, DC. Although the O'Jays are not a "wonk rock" band, D.C. has its...

Annapolis . Her argument is that allowing these situations to drag out for months while elected officials are under a legal cloud robs their constituents of effective representation. She has 85...

The public-policy group SPUR has issued an eye-opening report about the vulnerability of San Francisco's housing stock to a major earthquake. It projected that nearly a quarter of the...

If you celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day by watching the "I Have a Dream" speech on YouTube, you broke the law. Or at least that's what the Martin Luther King Jr. estate contends....

Just when you thought federal lawmakers were incapable of any action that might slow their plummeting public approval ratings, they come together to support a ban on insider trading by members of...

Imperial regimes can crack when they are driven out of their major foreign outposts. The fall of the Berlin Wall did not only signal the liberation of Eastern Europe from Moscow. It prefigured the...

On behalf of the Utah Valley Christmas Box Club, I would like to take the opportunity to express my sincerest thanks and appreciation to all of the caring individuals, communities, church groups,...

Proposed new legislation affecting union members in Michigan is a combination of reasonable rules protecting their rights and unnecessary overreach that lawmakers probably should bypass. Union...

After spending the last two decades submerged in debt and controversies over corruption, our City of Friendship is finally making a fresh start. Now it is up to our elected officials to continue on...

Fountain Hills, Ariz. -- Dina Galassini does not seemto pose a threat to Arizona's civic integrity. But the government of this desert community believes you cannot be too careful. And state law...

Donald Trump greets Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney after announcing his endorsement of Romney. When Mitt Romney stated that he is "not concerned about the very poor," this...

University of Utah coach Kyle Whittingham I have to admit, Kyle Whittingham's new approach to coaching is innovative — "coaching by committee." The offense now has a separate...

I have noticed recently that the tea party group is going to spend a lot of money to try and unseat and defeat Sen. Orrin Hatch for re-election. I support many of the things that the tea party...

With the Florida primary behind us, pundits are now pouring through its exit polls to come up with numbers to tell us where Mitt Romney's strengths and weaknesses lie. Pollsters are doing the...

M ichael Graham, tell the 8-year-old who just asked her mother for a bulletproof vest that gun violence is going down ("Mayors wide of mark," Feb. 3). Tell grieving mother Nicole Martin,...

For more than two years, people in Utah and Washington have followed the saga of Susan Powell's disappearance, hoping for some good news. It never came. Now we have seen the most horrific and...

Letters to the Editor from the weekly print edition of February 6, 2012: One reader says reducing prison populations won't come from releasing criminals, but rehabilitating them and preventing...

I first met Kevin White when he initially ran for mayor and I was living in the projects in Charlestown ("Remembering Kevin White," Feb. 2). His wife Kathryn coincidentally was also from...

W hile much of the focus is on the fight for the Republican presidential nomination, there are some developing trends that are likely to have the man already in the White House smiling. Only 29...

I f we didn’t have enough to worry about on the subway from catching the flu to dealing with a likely fare hike, along come amateur paparazzi to deal with. A company of pests promises to...

Synopsis: Should we have a casino in Hawai'i? It could be scary. Welina e na hoa puni heluhelu. Ma ka Hoku Avalataisa o ka la 20 o Ianuali, ua ho'ike 'ia iho nei ka malama 'ia...

Meet Lew Fidler of Brooklyn, whose 10 years on the City Council have apparently entitled him to, well, a grand sense of entitlement. As The Post’s Rich Calder reported last week, Fidler’s...

Chinese residents in the coast village of Wukan rebelled last year and won the right to a free election. The rest of China watches to see if they, too, can demand...

This was for us. And that was a new thing, so we gathered faithfully to the television as that hardworking cartoon engine chugged across the screen, rainbow smoke pouring from its stack, the...

David Osmek's commentary ("Stop the light-rail obsession," Feb. 2) was misleading, because he conveniently ignored the staggering costs of business as usual -- which seems to be his...

The number of illegal immigrants in the United States has dropped notably during the Obama administration -- from a high of 11.9 million in 2007 to 11.2 million in 2010. That fact may be lost on...

LOS ANGELES The worst day of Sugar Bear's 55 years was one of the days -- there have been many of them -- when he got out of prison. In the early 1990s, in a prison where persons whose...

FactCheck.org , which tracks accuracy in political messaging, found that the "avalanche of negativity" in recent Florida ads also contained a fair share of distortions and outright lies. ...

Today, virtually all American women use contraception at some point in their lives. And we have a large body of medical evidence showing it has significant benefits for their health, as well as the...

Yet in drawing up the rules that will govern health care reform, the Obama administration didn't just cross that line. It galloped over it, requiring employers affiliated with the Catholic Church to...

"I think it's very harmful to Republicans because instead of the candidates presenting their views and their policies and their proposals, it's all gotcha," harrumphed Sen. John McCain, no primary...

As a retired economics professor, I have seldom heard of anyone who begrudges self-made individuals. However, what no rational person can or should buy is privilege. Medved's statement that we...

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We all agree that smoking isn't healthy, but neither is excessive drinking of alcohol or overeating. Does opposing view writer Paul Terpeluk, Cleveland Clinic's medical director of Employee Health...

In protest of the Palestinian statehood bid at the UN, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen froze $192 million in funding for USAID programs, including a Palestinian version of 'Sesame Street.' The...

Romney was a one-term governor, but he is surely the 24-carat chief executive officer. There are huge differences in skills required to be a successful CEO and a president of the United States....

First-time wonders deserve our awe and applause. But almost every good thing in life -- from careers to ideas, products to poetry -- is more reinvention than...

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning warms up before the NFC championship game against the San Francisco 49ers last month in the City by the Bay. Oddsmakers have their money on Manning and his...

1. UCSF scientists declare war on sugar in food 2. Peyton Manning as 49er makes sense, but not enough 3. Morford: Please do not eat this 4. North Bay girl died of 'date rape' drug...

It says something about the brazen attitude of American politicians that Congress enacted a measure to create a program that was impossible to implement - and named it the CLASS Act. CLASS stands for...

France can't seem to decide how quickly it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan after a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on unarmed French soldiers, killing four and wounding 15. Over the...

A legal action filed in 4th District Court by a group of Cedar Hills residents against their city is one of the more unusual cases we've seen in awhile. They think the city has been hiding the...