November 3, 2020, 6:01am Columns
In the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency, the briefing room was standing room only. Around the room’s 49 assigned seats for the press, with the front rows reserved for big media, reporters with smaller news outfits jostled for space and a chance to pose a question of then-White House… Read story
November 2, 2020, 6:00am Columns
America is not guaranteed. Read story
November 1, 2020, 6:02am Columns
We have a problem. Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential election, we have a problem. Read story
November 1, 2020, 6:01am Columns
With much of the state and nation having already voted, it feels like Election 2020 is all over but the shouting. The shouting, though, can be highly revealing. And these past few days the uproar has been loudest in an unlikely place: Spokane. Read story
November 1, 2020, 6:01am Columns
The needless trauma inflicted on children in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown remains alive. Court-appointed advocates cannot find the parents — still — for 545 children taken away from their families in 2017 and 2018. That includes about 60 who were under age 5 when forcibly separated. Read story
November 1, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Opponents of 2019 Initiative 976, which aimed to limit car tab fees, are relieved that the state Supreme Court has ruled the popular measure unconstitutional. Some of sponsor Tim Eyman’s detractors now want to shoot the messenger, quashing his future efforts once and for all. Read story
October 30, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Dear Jared Kushner: Read story
October 29, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Joe Biden could have used more careful wording at that debate, but his talk of shifting the economy from fossil fuels to cleaner energy reflected a process well on its way. The transition started before Donald Trump took office and accelerated during his presidency. Read story
October 28, 2020, 6:01am Columns
In a normal times, which this definitely is not, a member of Congress saying she was going to vote for the presidential candidate from her own party would be no big deal. Read story
October 27, 2020, 6:01am Columns
You look at it, a copy of “The Scream,” the famous 1893 expressionist painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch, and you ask yourself whether this is America today, a scene that sizzles with human anxiety. There is a hand on each side of a large, mesmerizing, petrified face, waters… Read story
