February 3, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Recently, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation and the Bonneville Power Administration (as co-lead agencies) announced an accelerated schedule for completing the Columbia River System Operations environmental impact statement. With this new timeline, we anticipate implementing measures that benefit endangered salmon and steelhead one year earlier. Read story
February 3, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Surely the silliest aspirant for the Democrats’ 2020 presidential nomination is already known: “Beto,” aka Robert Francis, O’Rourke is a skateboarding man-child whose fascination with himself caused him to livestream a recent dental appointment for teeth cleaning. His journal about his post-election recuperation-through-road-trip-to-nowhere-in-particular is so without wit or interesting observations… Read story
February 3, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Having lost the shutdown standoff, President Trump has also lost his leverage. But there is one way he can get it back. Read story
February 3, 2019, 6:01am Columns
F rederick Douglass, U.S. Grant, Winston Churchill and Napoleon were all subjects of recent celebrated biographies. These modern portraits, at times romantic, shocking or disillusioning, illuminate their subjects’ lives with new honesty. We can’t put these page-turners down. Read story
February 2, 2019, 6:01am Columns
For once, Roger Stone was at a loss for words. Read story
February 1, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Fighting the law of gravity is hard. Read story
January 31, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Billionaire coffee magnate Howard Schultz has two problems: Ross Perot and Ralph Nader. Read story
January 30, 2019, 6:01am Columns
The ending of the longest federal government shutdown ever brought three things to mind — about the president, about newly empowered workers and about where politics goes from here. Read story
January 29, 2019, 6:01am Columns
First, Buzzfeed News ran a story Jan. 16 that asserted President Donald Trump told his longtime private attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about talks with Russia regarding a Trump Tower in Moscow. The sources? Two anonymous federal law enforcement officials. Read story
January 28, 2019, 6:01am Columns
Margaret Thatcher’s description of herself as a “conviction politician” alarmed some Britons but delighted others because her convictions were incompatible with the flaccid centrist consensus that had produced their nation’s 1970s stagnation. In 1979, voters rolled the dice, sending her to Downing Street. In Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Democrats have… Read story
