Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now  —  The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values.  It is separate from the newsroom.  —  One year after from the smoke and broken glass, the mock gallows and the very real bloodshed …

The Return of the Urban Firestorm  —  What happened in Colorado was something much scarier than a wildfire.  —  On Thursday afternoon, in the space of a few hours just a day before the new year, 100-plus mile-per-hour winds carried the most destructive fire in Colorado history through …

Trump endorses Rep. Mary Miller against Rep. Rodney Davis despite pleas from leadership not to get involved in primary  —  (CNN)Former President Donald Trump on Saturday endorsed freshman Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois against another sitting House Republican, bucking the advice of GOP leadership.

Many surprise medical bills are now illegal  —  Effective today, federal law bans many types of out-of-network medical bills and puts the onus on doctors and health insurance companies to resolve their payment disputes.  —  Why it matters: Consumers can breathe a sigh of relief because …

D.C. courts ‘sound the alarm’ on judicial vacancies as local officials demand movement in Senate  —  On its last day of business in 2021, the Senate confirmed dozens of President Biden's judicial nominees waiting to get to work.  —  Not a single one of them went to the local D.C. courts …

2021 letter  —  I've by now lived in each of China's main megaregions.  It is time to make assessments.  —  Everything that can go wrong in urban design has gone wrong in Beijing.  The climate is arid and prone to northerly sandstorms.  Its streets are unwalkable, but a stroll would reveal …

A Nation on Hold Wants to Speak With a Manager  —  In our anger-filled age, when people need to shop or travel or cope with mild disappointment they're “devolving into children.”  —  Nerves at the grocery store were already frayed, in the way of these things as the pandemic slouches toward its third year, when the customer arrived.

When They Warn of Rare Disorders, These Prenatal Tests Are Usually Wrong  —  Some of the tests look for missing snippets of chromosomes.  For every 15 times they correctly find a problem ...  After a year of fertility treatments, Yael Geller was thrilled when she found out she was pregnant in November 2020.

Chilling Trump Letter Calling For ‘Seizure’ Of Election Material Revealed In Log To Jan. 6 Probers  —  The letter was created a day before Trump discussed naming conspiracy theorist Sidney Powell “special counsel” to probe baseless election fraud claims.  —  A chilling item in a document log provided …

The New Political Cry in South Korea: ‘Out With Man Haters’  —  After slow gains in women's rights, the country is facing a type of political correctness enforced by young men angry at feminists, saying they undermine opportunity.  —  SEOUL — They have shown up whenever women rallied …

Shaken by the Jan. 6 attack, Capitol workers quit jobs that once made them proud … The House staffer quit after awakening one night and imagining a pack of Proud Boys amassing outside his apartment door.  Another left after questioning whether strangers he encountered had helped plot the insurrection.

Inside Joe Biden's disastrous negotiations with Iran  —  One of the West's great foreign policy failures of 2021 was the Iran nuclear negotiations, which remained bitterly unresolved as the clock passed midnight.  —  Having spoken to a number of diplomatic sources on different sides in recent weeks …