Carpenters District Council keeps a food pantry for unemployed members at its headquarters. Christian Gooden|Post-Dispatch

Perhaps as many as a thousand St. Louisans gathered at the Arch grounds last Friday Saturday to stage a “tea party,” protesting President Barack Obama’s extraordinary stimulus…

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Inauguration Day is still 13 days away, but President-elect Barack Obama has arrived in Washington, and the 111th Congress has begun work. Let the games begin.

Mr. Obama’s first order of business this week was meeting with congressional leaders about…

Eleven months ago, when the Commission on Presidential Debates announced that Washington University would host the vice presidential debate this year, it was a little like being awarded the ArenaBowl instead of the Super Bowl. Indoor football’s championship game is a…

With Wall Street teetering, there is plenty for us on Main Street to worry about. But there’s also plenty we can do to help alleviate the most extreme conditions created by a weak economy.

The front page of Wednesday’s Post-Dispatch reported that…

To a considerable degree, the federal Farm Bill of 2007 — which, five months into 2008 has yet to be passed by Congress — is a welfare program for millionaires. President George W. Bush calls it wasteful and promises to…