January 6, 2024, 6:01am Columns
There’s a neurotic need in the right-leaning media to declare that California is going down. The future belongs to Texas and Florida, where “woke” is a discouraging word — and climate change is somebody else’s problem, if it is a problem. Read story
January 5, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Lately, I avoid conversations with my father because of his passion for lecturing me about politics from a hard-right perspective. It began during COVID lockdowns. Not long ago, he told me he sees Tucker Carlson as a hero. Exasperated, I told him he was idolizing a guy who had mocked… Read story
January 4, 2024, 6:01am Columns
2023 had barely begun when scientists got some jolting news. On Jan. 4, a paper appeared in Nature claiming that disruptive scientific findings have been waning since 1945. An accompanying graph showed all fields on a steep downhill slide. Read story
January 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has said it many times: If Western military support were to falter, the Ukrainians would continue to fight. Read story
January 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
A few years back, a bumper sticker with a blunt message enjoyed some fleeting popularity in a few of the Northwest’s outer reaches: Read story
January 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
When it comes to shoplifting and retail theft, the public has every right to be confused. Read story
January 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
With the height of the pandemic largely behind us, retail businesses have focused on restoring profit margins and bracing for what is sure to be an unpredictable economy this year. Read story
January 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
As New Year’s Day dawns in a blood-soaked Gaza, the Biden administration must prod Israel to face a reality: There is no endgame for this war that doesn’t require a Palestinian security force to help maintain order in Gaza after Hamas is deposed. Read story
January 1, 2024, 6:01am Columns
In a remarkable plot twist, the Colorado Supreme Court has found that former President Donald Trump must be excluded from the state’s primary ballot because he engaged in insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. Now the pressure is on the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether Section 3 of the 14th… Read story
December 30, 2023, 6:01am Columns
When it went into effect, Washington’s new law allowing young people convicted of crime to remain in juvenile lockup until age 25 sounded appropriately progressive. Read story
