October 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Democrats are right to be concerned about Joe Biden’s 2024 re-election prospects. An array of national polls shows the president running no better than even with — and often behind — Donald Trump and other GOP hopefuls. Read story
October 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The Inflation Reduction Act, passed last year, gave Medicare the authority to negotiate drug prices for the first time. The government will start with 10 medications, which were announced last month. Now it just needs to figure out how much they should cost. Read story
October 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
A young couple I know, recent grads from a state university, share a walk-up apartment in a gritty part of town. They buy their T-shirts used. They share a 22-year-old Honda Accord with well over 100,000 miles on it. Their health club is weights in a garage. And they spend… Read story
October 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Hello? HELLO? Can you hear me? Can you hear me now? We’re going deep on the topic of the telephone in hopes that you win a free basket of wings at your local trivia night. Here’s something I learned recently: Read story
September 30, 2023, 6:02am Columns
For political wonks, the addition of Leslie Lewallen makes the 2024 congressional race more interesting. And it raises questions about her policy ideas as well as the sources of her support. Read story
September 30, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Justice Elena Kagan, the former dean of Harvard Law School, publicly weighed in last week on what is really a crisis facing the United States Supreme Court. The crisis centers on ethics and, more broadly, the legitimacy of the court as an institution. The Supreme Court doesn’t have an army… Read story
September 30, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s relationship with the U.S. and its presidents may seem surprising to those unfamiliar with the confident populist from the rural Mexican state of Tabasco who won his nation’s top office on his third try in 2018. Mexico’s larger neighbor to the north never seems… Read story
September 30, 2023, 6:01am Columns
At a Sept. 18 forum on November’s school board elections, challengers and incumbents focused on weighty issues so complex as to extend beyond school board responsibilities to the Legislature, the family and the community. Read story
September 30, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Can the Republican party in Washington state be brought back from the dead? Read story
September 29, 2023, 6:01am Columns
One can sympathize with Mitt Romney for deciding not to run again in Utah for the U.S. Senate. The traditional Republican has found himself isolated in a party where majorities still revere Donald Trump. Read story
