March 17, 2020, 6:00am Columns
Can science lead to dumb panic? It’s a question I’ve been asking as the stock market cannibalized itself in response to the coronavirus outbreak, academia shuttered classrooms and other interests did their utmost to convince their customers that they could get along just fine without them. Read story
March 16, 2020, 6:01am Columns
He said, she said. Read story
March 16, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Wow. If there’s been a worse Oval Office address ever, I certainly can’t think of it. All of Donald Trump’s ineptness at the job of presidenting and his personal pathologies came together Wednesday night in a short, awful, counterproductive address to the nation. At least he managed to avoid wearing… Read story
March 16, 2020, 6:01am Columns
While world leaders focused this week on coping with the coronavirus, Vladimir Putin’s attention was elsewhere. Read story
March 15, 2020, 6:02am Columns
We have been through this before. Read story
March 15, 2020, 6:01am Columns
With the coronavirus spreading in the U.S., Americans are reacting in a variety of ways. Some of them are smart, others … not so much. Read story
March 15, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest and being a part of our Southwest Washington community for 25 years, I know that we are resilient. I’ve been heartened to see our strength demonstrated in exemplary ways by our community as we face the COVID-19 outbreak, whether it is students following the… Read story
March 15, 2020, 6:01am Columns
And now we know, really know, why government is important. Even why politicians are (gulp) vital. Read story
March 13, 2020, 6:01am Columns Free
There’s an old song by The O’Jays that seems especially apropos to this moment. The refrain goes: “Those lies done caught up with you this time.” Read story
March 12, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Sexism did it. A widespread sense of female inferiority pushed Elizabeth Warren from contention in the Democratic primary for president, some insist. I’d like to suggest a more powerful force was her chicanery, as in refusing on 17 public occasions to say whether she was going to hike taxes on… Read story
