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
July 31, 2023, 6:01am Columns
In the past two months, President Joe Biden’s revised procedures for stemming the influx of asylum seekers across the Southern border have seemed to be working, substantially slowing the flow. Read story
July 31, 2023, 6:01am Columns
It’s called artificial intelligence because it was created not by nature but by humans, this gift of ours to robots, computers and other specially designed machines, and some of our species disdain it. They note nature was indeed the genesis of our thinking abilities, our rationality, our insights, our logic… Read story
July 29, 2023, 6:02am Columns
To answer your most pressing question, the one that speaks to the very foundation and integrity of journalism: No, I am not using ChatGPT to write this column. Read story
July 29, 2023, 6:01am Columns
Almost every student who applies to Washington’s colleges and universities is likely to find a spot. Even the state’s two most selective schools — the University of Washington in Seattle and Whitman College in Walla Walla — admit nearly half of all applicants. So, with the majority of K-12 students… Read story
