Amanda Todd was 15 when she hanged herself last week. She'd been bullied, repeatedly, for a mistake she'd made a few years before. Read more »

Presidential politics has become a contest of shiny objects and puppies. Only, we don't call them shiny objects, we call them "memes." Read more »

Normally, a debate "victory" doesn't require quite so much damage control. Following Vice President Joe Biden's manic, careening ride through global politics last week, President Obama is left to... Read more »

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Our take:A Seattle Times guest columnist, Jason Backholm, writes his view of Referendum 74, which asks Washington voters to accept or reject a 2012 bill legalizing same-sex marriage. According... Read more »

Successive generations of White House staffs and newspaper editors relearn the same hard lesson: Don't get ahead of the facts. Read more »

Recently, there has been discussion about the way the White House reacted to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in Benghazi — including in the presidential debate last night. Read more »

I've finally stopped believing the tech gurus in skinny jeans and hipster glasses who preach about the glories of the new networked world in which everyone and everything are connected all the... Read more »

No mystery about the trajectory of this race. It was static for months as President Obama held a marginal lead. Then came the conventions. The Republicans squandered Tampa; the Democrats got a 3-... Read more »

Everyone agrees corruption is rampant at every level of government in Afghanistan. Everyone says something needs to be done about it. But little tangible progress has been made in making the... Read more »

After two debates, one presidential and one vice presidential, we can fairly conclude that Obama and Biden are happy warriors. They just smile and smile and smile. Read more »

The sparring over Social Security and Medicare between Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan during their debate last week was like a conversation between two women at year end. Read more »

Like everyone else in America, we breathlessly await the 2012 election outcome so we will know the fate of Big Bird, but we must put our worry aside to comment on other non-puppet issues. Read more »

Just in case you didn't hear it, that was the sound of the BRIC bubble popping. Read more »

Since announcing my candidacy for governor, I have had the honor of meeting thousands of Utahns from all walks of life and all areas of this state. The message I hear again and again is the same... Read more »

If in four weeks a president-elect Mitt Romney is seeking a Treasury secretary, he should look here, to Richard Fisher, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Read more »

The following editorial appeared recently in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Read more »

Nearly all the great minds in America seem to agree. The smart, strategic, ideal budget policy for the United States just now, we're told, would take action to avoid sharp and immediate tax hikes... Read more »

Every fall, students across the nation welcome a new school year with new teachers, new books, new supplies — and old lessons. Re-teaching material from the previous school year has become... Read more »

WASHINGTON — Today's consumers take credit cards pretty much for granted. Once used only for major purchases, Americans now use the cards routinely, for even the smallest of purchases.... Read more »

WASHINGTON — When the settlement of a major lawsuit is announced, it's usually a done deal. Paperwork still needs to be signed and the package has to be approved by a judge, but both parties... Read more »

Our world has changed, and we are constantly being bombarded with information that comes at us louder and faster, and we listen only to those who agree with our way of thinking. Read more »