September 27, 2020, 6:01am Columns
A racial reckoning has emerged this year as the nation bears the consequences of police brutality against Black citizens, white vigilante violence, and a president who stokes racial tensions. Yet most Americans still misunderstand systemic racism. Read story
September 27, 2020, 6:01am Columns
While many of the state's students settle into new routines of remote learning, thousands still don't have the devices or connectivity they need to learn online. That's unacceptable. Read story
September 27, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Probably everyone would agree, especially now, that about the last place Travis Berge should have been living was in a makeshift fort in a Seattle city park. Read story
September 27, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Oh, be quiet. So, so many voices right now are talking about a Supreme Court vacancy and whether it will be filled by a liberal or a conservative, a secular personality or a religious believer, a Democrat or a Republican, and all of that is beside the point. Read story
September 23, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Seattle politics must be incomprehensible to the outside world. Read story
September 22, 2020, 6:01am Columns
A few years back, the now disgraced comedian Louis C.K. had a viral bit about how “everything is amazing and no one is happy.” Read story
September 21, 2020, 6:01am Columns
This is for the people who keep asking me about Chicago. Read story
September 21, 2020, 6:01am Columns
Hurricane Sally has just pummeled the Florida Panhandle and the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama. Though it landed as “only” a Category 2, what made it disastrous was its slow crawl, drowning Gulf of Mexico communities in Book of Genesis-type flooding. Hurricanes these days have slowed down, science says, as temperatures warm. Read story
September 20, 2020, 6:02am Columns
It was like a Norman Rockwell painting come to life, an idealized version of an America that might or might not still exist — if it ever did at all. And it can be found in Abilene, Kan. Read story
September 20, 2020, 6:01am Columns
If you are at all claustrophobic, seeing nothing but white smoke from the windows is unsettling. If you go outside, even a precious N95 mask unearthed from a dusty pile of paint cans and brushes is insufficient. Your lungs hurt. Your eyes burn. Read story
