May 11, 2019, 6:01am Columns
No, Mitch McConnell, it isn’t “case closed.” Read story
May 9, 2019, 6:01am Columns
A new United Nations report projecting the extinction of one-eighth of all animal and plant species should rattle the cages of any remaining skeptics regarding climate change and the central role humans have played in Earth’s accelerating destruction. Read story
May 8, 2019, 6:01am Columns
There have been several strange twists to the current controversy about Rep. Matt Shea, what he said in an online chat with some folks on the right advocating violent responses to folks on the left, and when he said it. Read story
May 6, 2019, 6:01am Columns
This is a column about saving whiteness. It’s precipitated by a recent incident at a bookstore in Washington, D.C. Read story
May 5, 2019, 6:02am Columns
He would have supported Donald Trump’s wall. That much is certain. After all, Albert Johnson once decried “a stream of alien blood, with all its inherited misconceptions respecting the relationships of the governing power to the governed.” Read story
May 5, 2019, 6:01am Columns
I’m a fan, in theory, of the idea of Jay Inslee running for president. Not because I expect the actual Jay Inslee to ever be president. But I like that he’s taken up the cause of a perennially ignored issue, climate change. Read story
May 5, 2019, 6:01am Columns
At 96, James Buckley still is, like good cheddar, sharp and savory. Buckley, whose life has been no less accomplished than his brother Bill’s, recently said at a National Review gathering that his speech there would be his last public appearance. Let us hope not. Read story
May 5, 2019, 6:01am Columns
The consensus view outside the world of Trump supporters was that Attorney General William Barr came across at Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing as a political hack. Read story
May 5, 2019, 6:01am Columns
‘Generating jobs and investment in the community is the primary function of the Port …” states the Port of Vancouver’s 2018 Strategic Plan. Yet its newly proposed energy policy may discourage current and future tenants, on whom port growth hinges. At the very least, the proposal creates business uncertainty. Read story
May 4, 2019, 6:01am Columns
As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer sat down with President Trump on Tuesday at the White House to talk about an infrastructure bill, Trump’s acting chief of staff explained why they were wasting their time. Read story