March 6, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The Republican majority in the House isn’t even two months old, but it’s already clear that Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s attempt to mollify his party’s extremist faction risks hurting the country without guaranteeing the thing he wants most: to keep his job as House leader. Read story
March 6, 2023, 6:01am Columns
There has been a debate raging within my household for months over when my oldest children (ages 6 and 7) will be permitted to watch “The Witches,” the 2020 film based on Roald Dahl’s fantasy children’s novel of the same title. Read story
March 6, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Audience research done by Fox News might be the most sophisticated data-wrangling operation on the planet, but you can be justifiably skeptical that it can separate its viewers into reasonable and unreasonable. Read story
March 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns
How convenient that presidential hopeful Nikki Haley’s proposed mental-competency test for politicians would kick in at age 75 — just below the age of her only other announced Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, and a few years below incumbent Democrat Joe Biden. Read story
March 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Donald Trump is about to discover the flip side of being the front-runner in a potentially crowded field. Read story
March 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns
It’s hardly a secret that politicians like to define their opponents with simplistic, negative code words that can offset their positive messages and turn off potential voters. Read story
March 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Testimony to the Legislature in Olympia is signaling that a big front in the culture wars may be forming around a seemingly benign object: the electric car. Read story
March 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Housed in a modern, welcoming facility in Brush Prairie, Daybreak Youth Services is unique in our region. It accepts Medicare and Medicaid payments, essential in most cases, and provides multimonth in-patient and outpatient treatment of boys for substance abuse and behavioral conditions. Read story
March 3, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Our future is foreshadowed by our past, and few human activities have shaped our history more than our near- irresistible compulsion to fight each other. War is as characteristic of humanity as religion and the drive to procreate. Read story
March 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
As disconcerting as the United States’ current debt situation is, the outlook is even worse. When the bipartisan Congressional Budget Office updated its forecasts last month, it estimated that debt held by the public will climb to $46 trillion by 2033 from $31 trillion currently. This puts the country one… Read story
