August 5, 2024, 6:02am Columns
In an address to the nation about abandoning his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden mentioned Supreme Court reform as one of the priorities he would pursue in the remainder of his term. Last Monday, Biden fleshed out that commitment with proposals that deserve — but aren’t receiving — bipartisan support. Read story
August 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
In the last presidential election, 192,000 more women than men cast ballots in Washington. It amounted to a turnout gap, favoring women, of about 5 percent. Read story
August 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As America ponders its political future, the dynamics of politics in Europe offer U.S. lawmakers interesting food for thought. The change there isn’t necessarily about a movement to political extremes but a different kind of shift. Read story
August 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
It wasn’t groundbreaking that the speakers who took to the Republican National Convention stage spent much of the night railing against President Joe Biden’s border and immigration policies. Biden was enabling a “border bloodbath,” crowd signs read, as congressional leaders accused Biden of enabling a border “invasion.” Read story
August 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
It took former President Donald Trump less than a week to abandon the faux unity message his managers put on his teleprompter at the Republican National Convention and revert to his disrespectful, denigrating self. Read story
August 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
A new survey makes the case for saving the local news industry, finding that most Americans want robust coverage of local civic issues but it’s getting harder to find. This is ominous with elections approaching. But it should also be encouraging to local news outlets and those working to sustain… Read story
August 3, 2024, 6:02am Columns
The first time I used generative artificial intelligence, I felt like a kid at an amateur magic show. Is the card really floating in midair? The parents at this kind of show, of course, are less dumbstruck than the kids: The card is not floating but instead swinging on some… Read story
August 3, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Democrats may have finally found their magical talisman: One word (with apologies to J.R.R. Tolkien) to rule them all, one word to find them, one word to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Read story
August 3, 2024, 6:01am Columns
On July 24, Initiative 2066, which would overturn the state’s banning of gas service to homes and businesses, was certified for the November ballot. Voters now have a chance to support the diversity of energy choices that has long provided reliability. Read story
August 3, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Vice President Kamala Harris has a golden opportunity to demonstrate she is ready to govern from the middle by frankly addressing her role in the Biden administration’s ineffective immigration policies. She should seize the moment before it slips away. Read story
