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
August 15, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Two good writers presented opposing opinions in the New York Times last week concerning this important question: Should former president Donald Trump’s potential trial or trials — particularly for his alleged attempt to overturn the 2020 election — be televised? Read story
August 14, 2023, 6:01am Columns
With Congress on its summer recess, we’ve gotten a bit of a break from Republicans’ ad nauseam complaints that Donald Trump is a victim of a “two-tier system of justice” — one that goes after him and others in their party, the other favoring Democrats, who supposedly run the whole… Read story
August 14, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Is the current rise in COVID-19 hospitalizations really the result of people moving indoors to enjoy air conditioning? Experts and journalists often make this assumption when they’re quoted in the media about the virus’s small summer “waves” or “surges” (which, this year, is really more like a small uptick). Similarly,… Read story
August 14, 2023, 6:01am Columns
America’s political scribes would do us a favor if they would drop the word “storied” before the name “Kennedy.” America does not have families that are royal, storied or otherwise special because of the circumstances of members’ birth. Or it shouldn’t. Read story
