December 23, 2018, 6:01am Columns
President Donald Trump said he was going to do this disastrous thing of shutting down the government to get Democrats to give him money for his Great Wall of America and now he is saying fairies in the sky will provide the funding, or something like that, and the hard… Read story
December 23, 2018, 6:01am Columns
The days huddled up against Christmas aren’t always filled with cheerful times, despite what ads, television specials and everybody else’s Facebook posts appear to promise. For many of us, they bring a sense of profoundly mixed, if not contradictory, emotions. Read story
December 22, 2018, 6:01am Columns
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan saw it coming. Read story
December 21, 2018, 6:01am Columns
“How many times do we have to go through this?” Read story
December 20, 2018, 6:01am Columns
As résumés go, it’s hard to fathom a better fit to fill John McCain’s Senate seat than the nation’s first female Air Force pilot to fly in combat — Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz. Read story
December 19, 2018, 6:01am Columns
Bad news for gun-rights advocates hoping President Donald Trump would step in and block Initiative 1639, the new state law restricting sales of semiautomatic rifles and requiring safe storage of firearms at home. Read story
December 18, 2018, 6:01am Columns
Forget all the tongue clucking about Washington, D.C., being so divided and nasty that Democrats and Republicans cannot work together. As the Senate and House proved last week in passing a $867 billion farm bill, when it comes to spending money they don’t have, party leaders really can reach across… Read story
December 17, 2018, 6:01am Columns
Is this the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency? Read story
December 16, 2018, 6:03am Columns
It is simply a name, one that is distinguished in these parts yet has become problematic for the city of Vancouver. Read story
December 16, 2018, 6:01am Columns
For a party that claims to be “tough on crime,” Republicans have seemed pretty confused by what it means to hold criminals to account. Particularly when it comes to white-collar crimes, or really any crimes committed by rich people. Read story