August 22, 2023, 6:01am Columns
As Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s presidential campaign continues to flounder — its latest reboot culminating with a new campaign manager — many pundits and observers are asking the same question: How does someone who is so bad at politics become governor of the nation’s third-largest state? Read story
August 21, 2023, 6:01am Columns
America is the land of plenty, but to many, it’s become a world of envy and anger. Nowadays, malcontents seem to feel more entitled to act out in anti-social ways. Their loss of self-control is most troubling in an airplane, where many humans are trapped in an aluminum tube. The… Read story
August 21, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Forget for a moment the indictments against Donald Trump, including the latest from Georgia, and about what impact they might have on his presidential candidacy. Consider instead this constitutional fact: Trump, as insurrectionist in chief, should be disqualified from office, and from being a candidate in the first place. Read story
August 21, 2023, 6:01am Columns
In the trenches of child welfare, high stress is perennial and complaints chronic. Social workers know this. They sign up for it willingly. So it’s no small thing when more than 1,000 of them call for the governor to fire their boss. Read story
August 21, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Over the past couple of years, I lost my fear of the Other. Read story
August 19, 2023, 6:02am Columns
What does it do? What has it done? How can average Americans assess the Inflation Reduction Act aside from the partisan rancor that infects political discussions? Read story
August 19, 2023, 6:01am Columns
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act — also known as RICO — with its draconian penalties was a favorite of prosecutor Rudy Giuliani in the good or bad old days, when he put away mobsters and Wall Streeters with fierce ambition. Read story
August 19, 2023, 6:01am Columns
When Seattleites came to City Hall this week to request some kind of action on the drug crisis, no one asked for what the city council is planning to do next. Read story
August 19, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Those eager to see Donald Trump and his allies brought to justice should welcome the Atlanta indictments of the former president and 18 others in what District Attorney Fani Willis called “a criminal racketeering enterprise” to overturn the 2020 Georgia election result. Read story
August 16, 2023, 6:01am Columns
My colleague Nicole Russell recently wrote that Republicans turned hard-core MAGA Trump voters are to blame for the persistence of the former president’s poll numbers. Read story
