December 7, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Crusaders touting “Medical Freedom” are trying to end vaccination requirements for schoolchildren. Places where they succeed, epidemiologists warn, will, for starters, become overrun with measles, a disease that was virtually eliminated thanks to vaccines. Read story
December 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns
At first, the ads seemed like a pandemic-era curiosity, a niche political pitch playing on the red state, blue state divide. Read story
December 4, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Cases handled by the state Department of Children, Youth and Families are some of the most difficult faced by any state agency, and its overhaul of foster care is long overdue. That work focuses mostly on the front door, where young children are removed from their families. Read story
December 4, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The first news conference Earl Blumenauer held in Washington was a bipartisan affair, featuring the Oregon congressman alongside a fellow Democrat from Texas and Republicans from Illinois and New York. Their topic: a plea for greater civility in Congress. Read story
December 4, 2023, 6:01am Columns
I have to hand it to the inimitable Charles Pierce of Esquire magazine. Read story
December 4, 2023, 6:01am Columns
After Hamas massacred 1,200 Israelis, gang-raped teens and kidnapped hundreds of innocents, 30 student groups at Harvard issued a statement reading, “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.” Read story
December 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
During the pandemic, when schools were shuttered for more than a year, everyone knew there would be a price to pay. That toll has now come due, with student behavior and academic problems at a scale teachers say they have never seen. Read story
December 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
I asked ChatGPT, “What is meant by ‘farm-to-table’?” Read story
December 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
On Saturday morning, Jan. 13, 2024, Washington’s Republican Party will hold its precinct caucuses, beginning a multistep process to choose its 43 delegates to the Republican National Convention in July. Read story
December 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Perry Sobolik calls himself “an old newspaper junkie.” So he scours the press like a hawk for any scraps about his town, which happens to be the Seattle suburb of Kent. Read story
