October 16, 2023, 6:01am Columns
A college degree used to be a golden ticket to the best seats in American society. Read story
October 16, 2023, 6:01am Columns
This past summer, at a home on Lake Tapps in Pierce County, guests mingled in 1920s attire inspired by an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel for a fundraiser that presaged the future. Read story
October 16, 2023, 6:01am Columns
As Israel relentlessly bombs Gaza and moves troops toward the border, it is hard to predict how the war with Hamas terrorists will end. Read story
October 16, 2023, 6:01am Columns
It’s a disturbing oddity of our current political era that a leading presidential candidate can suggest that an American general who has criticized him should be executed, that shoplifters should be shot on sight, that the federal government should crack down on a television network whose coverage he doesn’t like… Read story
October 14, 2023, 6:01am Columns
We have a crisis at the border that requires a functional U.S. Congress, and we don’t have one. President Joe Biden can only do what he can, and only of late has he sounded resolute. Read story
October 14, 2023, 6:01am Columns
It should not be difficult to condemn terrorism. Read story
October 14, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Dick Butkus left us Oct. 5 at age 80. I knew him in the fourth quarter of his distinguished life. Read story
October 13, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Israelis have likened the brutal assault from Gaza to the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. “At Dawn We Slept” was a title of a book about that intelligence failure. As Israel investigates the complacency that left it open to a bloody invasion, Americans must ask themselves, Are we also sleeping? Read story
October 11, 2023, 6:01am Columns
“The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers …” Read story
October 10, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Holding hands with their ideological kin, Democrats have lately been doing everything unimaginable to wreck America — turning a helter-skelter border crisis into a national crisis through laxity, encouraging death, theft and destruction through unattended crime outbursts and putting knotty psychology ahead of education in public schools, for instance. Read story
