April 20, 2024, 6:01am Columns
I see that the right-most flank of the national Republican Party is baying to take out another GOP speaker of the house, for the sin of being too into compromise. I also see that the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald Trump, is agitating to take out Washington’s last Republican in… Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Paying “hush money” to keep an extramarital affair quiet is not a crime. And falsifying business records to cover it up is not a felony. What makes it one — or 34, the number of felony counts Donald Trump has been charged with — is an “intent to defraud” that… Read story
April 19, 2024, 6:01am Columns
There was a time when many of President Donald Trump’s top officials — including his Cabinet-level advisers on national and global security — thought the toughest decision they had to make was whether to tell you the truth about what they really thought about their boss. Read story
April 18, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Every state is different. Nebraska is quite different. It is one of only two states that doesn’t use the winner-take-all system in presidential elections. Along with Maine, it allocates its Electoral College votes to reflect the results in each of its congressional districts. Read story
April 17, 2024, 6:01am Columns
There is a time, as Ecclesiastes and the Byrds tell us, for everything under the sun. A time to kill or heal; to build up or tear down; to be born or die; to weep or laugh; to mourn or dance; to love or hate; for war or peace. Read story
April 16, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Perhaps you can imagine punishments more to be feared than a lengthy prison sentence, but in a country that proscribes cruel and unusual punishment — except the death penalty — the only thing I can think of that would be worse than confinement in prison is confinement as the result… Read story
April 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
The life and death of Charles Daniel at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma should be investigated not only by detention center officials, but by an agency that’s not linked to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Read story
April 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
At a 1962 Massachusetts Senate debate, challenger Edward McCormack told his rival, the youthful future Sen. Edward Moore Kennedy, that, “if his name was Edward Moore, with his qualifications … your candidacy would be a joke.” Read story
April 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
Today is Americans’ favorite day — April 15, Tax Day! In the land of “No taxation without representation,” we Americans throw a fit over how much we fork over to the government, which taps into related complaints over government waste, budget deficits and more. Read story
April 15, 2024, 6:01am Columns
How grotesque to watch long-term U.S. security interests hang on the outcome of a political battle between the Hamlet-like speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, and vengeful MAGA conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene. Read story
