September 19, 2022, 6:00am Columns
Chances are that you don’t approve of the job Joe Biden is doing as president. The polls are consistent: according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed Tuesday, only 39 percent of Americans approved of Biden’s handling of his job, which is close to the low point of 36 percent earlier… Read story
September 18, 2022, 6:01am Columns
To many supporters, Joe Biden is a modern-day Harry Truman, the unexpected president initially overwhelmed by an array of unanticipated problems whose resilience resulted in a historic victory and an honored place in presidential history. Read story
September 18, 2022, 6:01am Columns
As the pandemic grinds on, it’s the hospital system that is truly sick. Read story
September 18, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Is Columbia University one of the best colleges or universities in the country? Read story
September 18, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Nice try, Lindsey Graham. The senator from South Carolina has been reading the polls, clearly. After decades of railing against abortion and populating the U.S. Supreme Court with justices eager to ditch a right to an abortion, Republicans like him are discovering that the broader public never signed up for… Read story
September 16, 2022, 6:01am Columns
President John F. Kennedy committed America to landing on the moon in a speech on Sept. 12, 1962. Read story
September 14, 2022, 6:01am Columns
Last month, when one of Idaho’s many new anti-abortion laws was being challenged in court, the governor tried to declare that the issue was over. Read story
September 13, 2022, 6:01am Columns
This time of year always gets to me. Read story
September 12, 2022, 6:01am Columns
I’ve been meaning to write this one for years. It was the potato chips that finally made me do it. Read story
September 12, 2022, 6:01am Columns
As Seattle teachers and administrators were headed for another strike the other day, state Sen. Reuven Carlyle, a Seattle Democrat, tried to appeal to the better angels of community reason. Citing all the pandemic disruptions of the past few years, he called on both sides, in the “spirit of grace… Read story
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