Steve Boggs: Social media won’t help post-election healing

What happens on Nov. 9? What becomes of us after Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump is elected as the 45th president of the United States? With Election Day five weeks away, the race for president remains competitive. The path to 270 Electoral College votes is nowhere close to being clear, even though professional number-crunchers point to a Clinton advantage heading down the home stretch.

Tax measure flawed but better than no carbon price

A price or tax on carbon dioxide emitted from burning fossil fuels is long past due in the Northwest and the rest of the United States. Washington voters have a chance to break a political gridlock over state climate change policy by adopting Initiative 732 on Nov. 8. If enacted, the carbon tax would gradually move Washington closer in sync with British Columbia, which adopted such a tax nearly a decade ago to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Charles Krauthammer: When facts, logic and history don’t matter

And now, less than six weeks from the election, what is the main event of the day? A fight between the GOP presidential nominee and a former Miss Universe, whom he had 20 years ago called Miss Piggy and other choice pejoratives. Just a few weeks earlier, we were seized by a transient hysteria over a minor Hillary Clinton lung infection hyped to near-mortal status.

Our Views: An agitator instead of an attorney general

The principle of what's good for the goose ought to be good for the gander appears lost on Capitol Hill. If the anti-immigrant agitation over so-called "sanctuary cities" for immigrants who are here illegally has any basis in fact, the concern should be grounded in policy, not politics.

Opinion: 10 ways Trump could win next debate

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump shakes hands with Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton at the first presidential debate on Monday, September 26. Clinton, 68, is the first woman to lead a presidential ticket for one of the major political parties. She has been a U.S. senator and secretary of state.

Wells Fargo is still getting off too easy

Wells Fargo chief executive John Stumpf offered more apologies and excuses Thursday during his appearance before the House Financial Services Committee. REUTERS/Gary Cameron For the second time this month, Wells Fargo chief executive John Stumpf was greeted with a barrage of hostile questions from members of Congress, when he testified Thursday before the House Financial Services Committee about the bank's phony-account affair.

Why the rest of the world would hand Clinton a landslide victory

Josef Joffe is editor of Die Zeit in Hamburg and fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he teaches U.S. foreign policy. For a country supposedly in decline, the United States is getting a lot of attention these days.