July 17, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Minutes after the June 27 presidential debate ended, television talking heads began speculating about every political pundit’s favorite fever dream: an open national political convention. Read story
July 16, 2024, 6:01am Columns
It’s painful for Democrats to see our party so divided at a time when Republicans are marching in lockstep to coronate Donald Trump. Read story
July 15, 2024, 6:02am Columns
If you walk in downtown Seattle these days, especially along the complicated stretch of 3rd Avenue around Pike and Pine, you’ll see plenty of drug use going on. Read story
July 15, 2024, 6:02am Columns
He just doesn’t get it. And neither do those closest to him. Read story
July 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Try as he might, Donald Trump can’t blur the hard reality he forced upon American women. He vowed in 2016 to get rid of Roe v. Wade and succeeded. As a result, American women lost a half-century right to end an unwanted or dangerous pregnancy. Read story
July 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
A whopping one in eight U.S. adults have taken GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic for weight loss and related conditions. The drugs’ popularity and efficacy have sparked a prescription-writing frenzy in recent years, leaving both medications on the Food and Drug Administration’s drug shortage list since May 2023. Read story
July 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
It was only hours after the Supreme Court issued its staggering term-ending opinion on presidential immunity when Donald Trump invoked it in an attempt to set aside his criminal conviction in New York. Read story
July 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As communities along the Gulf Coast begin the cleanup from Hurricane Beryl, which made landfall last week as a weakened Category 1 storm, they should find comfort in knowing that help is coming. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is well schooled in disaster recovery and has been on the ground… Read story
July 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
An aggressive effort by President Joe Biden to challenge his critics and maintain support from key constituencies has failed to still the post-debate uncertainty over whether he should stay at the top of the Democratic ticket. Read story
July 13, 2024, 6:01am Columns
An unprecedented strain of bird flu is spreading among dairy cattle in the U.S. An outbreak of a flesh-eating bacteria has infected more than 1,000 people in Japan. At least 13 communicable diseases including measles, dengue and polio have surged past pre-pandemic peaks in regions across the world. Read story