August 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns
If there ever was a time to sound the alarm about a national epidemic that has killed millions of Americans, it was 20 years ago when the second wave of opioid deaths spiked. But since little has been done on a national basis to prevent deaths from fentanyl, Washington state… Read story
August 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns
History is repeating itself for the Larch Correctional Facility near Yacolt. For the second time since the uniquely vibrant prison opened in 1956, the Department of Corrections has made a peremptory decision, announced on June 26, to close Larch. And for the second time, extraordinary communitywide efforts are under way… Read story
August 5, 2023, 6:01am Columns
There was a time when the mere whiff of an indictment — let alone the reality of one — was enough to sink a promising candidate. Read story
August 4, 2023, 6:01am Columns
This is the big one: the first time the Department of Justice has ever indicted a former president for subverting democracy by trying to steal an election he knew he had lost. The prosecution of former President Donald Trump may be the most important criminal case ever brought by the… Read story
August 3, 2023, 6:01am Columns
A couple years ago, a column in The Washington Post criticized Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for his decision to pull the licenses of shelters and foster-care programs that provided care to unaccompanied migrant children. Read story
August 2, 2023, 6:01am Columns
For the fifth year in a row, Washington voters will not have a chance to enact a law in place of the Legislature. There will be no people’s initiatives on the top of the November ballot. Read story
August 1, 2023, 6:01am Columns
For more than two years, Donald Trump’s most patriotic MAGA true-believers have been accepting with unshakable trust what they were sure was rock-solid evidence that their leader really won reelection. Read story
July 31, 2023, 6:01am Columns
A newly declared national monument honoring the life and story of Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, is being talked about in the context of current events. Understandable, considering that the spirit that tried to oppress them is still a force in American politics and life. Just look to… Read story
July 31, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Finding legal technicalities and splitting hairs might be useful skills for Washington’s top lawyer, but they are unbecoming in someone who wants to be the state’s next governor. Read story
July 31, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s “chief financial officer,” said that Farmers Insurance pulled out of Florida not because it was losing money there but because the company was “woke.” How that wokeness manifested itself, he does not say. Read story
