October 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Little ladies of America, put down your sewing kits and listen up: Donald Trump and the Republican Party have your cute little backs. They’re going to protect you — from making your own choices about reproduction, from deciding whether to own a cat, maybe even from traveling between states. Read story
October 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Aggressive purging of voter rolls has become the new brag among Republican governors — one that should trigger alarm bells about who is being disenfranchised by these actions. Read story
October 4, 2024, 6:01am Columns
It’s been one of the most obvious changes since Kamala Harris became the Democratic presidential nominee: tougher talk on the border, an emphasis on enforcement and prosecuting traffickers, and renewed support for a bipartisan bill that would keep building the wall and hire more Border Patrol agents. Read story
October 3, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Salena Zito, writing for The Atlantic in September 2016, may have been the first to describe, in a triumph of pithy efficiency, why Donald Trump is able to survive and thrive despite provocative statements that would endanger the career of nearly any other politician: “When he makes claims like this,… Read story
October 2, 2024, 6:01am Columns
At a donor event last week with Miriam Adelson, the widow of Las Vegas casino billionaire Sheldon Adelson, Donald Trump promised to be the best friend Jews have ever had in the White House. The event was entitled “Fighting Antisemitism in America.” This is what Trump said: Read story
October 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
It’s time to retire the old trope that Democrats are anti-business. Perhaps it’s Republicans that are bad for business? Read story
September 30, 2024, 6:01am Columns
On Tuesday, congressional leaders spent two hours taking to task Novo Nordisk Chief Executive Officer Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen over the high price of the company’s diabetes and obesity drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. Now the question is whether those prices will change. Read story
September 30, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As life on the University of Washington campus ramps up after summer break, students, faculty and community members deserve to know what to expect when it comes to protests around the war in Gaza. Unfortunately, President Ana Mari Cauce has so far not provided clear guidelines, contending instead in a… Read story
September 30, 2024, 6:01am Columns
For 20 years, experts have sounded the alarm on a decline of charitable giving in the United States. Then came the pandemic, which led to a wave of new donations and volunteers to nonprofits. For some leaders, this was a sign that perhaps the retreat from philanthropy was reversing course. Read story
September 30, 2024, 6:01am Columns
‘I am your protector. I want to be your protector … you will no longer be abandoned, lonely or scared. You will no longer be in danger. You’re not going to be in danger any longer.” Read story
