July 24, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Recently it was reported that Seattle schools had broken a record of sorts, approving the state’s first billion-dollar yearly school district budget. Read story
July 23, 2019, 6:01am Columns
The most revealing moment of Wednesday night’s Greenville, N.C., Trump rally was not when the crowd chanted “Send her back” in support of President Donald Trump’s criticism of first-term Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a Somali-born immigrant who frequently calls Trump a racist and whom Trump argues hates America. Read story
July 22, 2019, 6:01am Columns
The government is about to run out of money because of an arbitrary cap on how much it can borrow to make good on bills that it long ago promised to pay. Read story
July 21, 2019, 6:02am Columns
It’s like balancing on a tightrope. Like balancing on a tightrope on a unicycle with a stack of plates on your head. In a crosswind. Read story
July 21, 2019, 6:01am Columns
This summer, I’m taking a tip from the Chantix turkey. You may have seen the ads for Chantix, a drug claiming to help people stop smoking gradually. The turkey character is seen trying to quit cigarettes in a calm, slow manner rather than going “cold turkey.” The mellow Galliforme calmly… Read story
July 21, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Thirty months after setting the goal of sending a mission 239,000 miles to the moon, and returning safely, President John Kennedy cited a story the Irish author Frank O’Connor told about his boyhood. Facing the challenge of a high wall, O’Connor and his playmates tossed their caps over it. Said… Read story
July 21, 2019, 6:01am Columns
We have heard a lot about the importance of the rule of law from Democrats lately. During special counsel Robert Muller’s investigation of President Trump, Democrats in Congress delivered a clear and unified message. Read story
July 21, 2019, 6:01am Columns
The swift decline and self-inflicted demise of America’s once-Grand Old Party has been as disheartening to chronicle as it has been dismayingly obvious to predict. Read story
July 20, 2019, 6:01am Columns
People of color know Nancy Pelosi. Read story
July 19, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Donald Trump’s presidency is melting down into a noxious stew of racism, failure and farce. With breathtaking cynicism, the Republican Party pretends not to notice. Read story
