August 14, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Politics in Seattle was said to be at a crossroads, with this election hyped as a chance for a once-in-a-generation change in direction. Read story
August 13, 2019, 6:01am Columns
American millennials have a lot of complaints about their lot in life. So here’s a question for them: When is the last time you had to walk through a sewer waist-high in human filth, choking on the toxic ammonia, yet unable to cough for fear of alerting the Nazi SS… Read story
August 12, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Teenagers were invented in the late 1950s. Read story
August 11, 2019, 6:02am Columns
How ’bout now? Is now a good time? Read story
August 11, 2019, 6:01am Columns
The USS Coronado, one of the Navy’s controversial and troubled littoral combat ships, was commissioned in 2014 and suffered an engineering breakdown only two months into its first deployment. Other problems have affected the ship. Read story
August 11, 2019, 6:01am Columns
We keep hearing about this wonderful economy of ours. Jobs plentiful. Inflation low. Interest rates low. Where’s the problem? Read story
August 11, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Fifty years ago, when I was 19, I got the assignment from the trade magazine Billboard to cover the Woodstock Festival because none of the older writers wanted to go. My review the following week began, “About 400,000 rock fans gave peace a chance Aug. 15-18, and it worked.” Read story
August 11, 2019, 6:01am Columns
“It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.” Read story
August 10, 2019, 6:00am Columns
In December 2016, then-President-elect Trump sent word that, when it came to government spending, there was a new sheriff in town. Read story
August 9, 2019, 6:00am Columns
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican Party may not have pulled the triggers, but they still bear some responsibility for the weekend’s atrocities. The only way to keep military-style weapons of war out of the clutches of would-be mass killers is to take away McConnell’s power — which… Read story
