August 30, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Facebook’s new “content transparency report” is full of intriguing tidbits but sheds little light on problems the social-media giant is causing for society and the news industry. Read story
August 29, 2021, 6:02am Columns
We’ll blame Thomas Jefferson. Oh, not entirely; there are more than 200 years’ worth of criticism to dole out. Read story
August 29, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Another scorching August day reached triple-digit temperatures in the Yakima Valley recently. Inside the towering rows of hop orchards, high humidity and little shade made the already stifling conditions feel worse. Read story
August 29, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Our friends in health care have seen plenty to impale the heart in this pandemic, but nothing more tragic than this: the sight of guilt-ridden children who believe they’ve killed an unvaccinated parent by bringing the virus home. Read story
August 29, 2021, 6:01am Columns
In the wake of the suicide bombs at Kabul airport by ISIS terrorists, I must pay tribute to those Americans who have been helping to rescue endangered Afghans. Read story
August 29, 2021, 6:01am Columns
I would like to share with you a conversation about politics that I didn’t want to have. But the man in the Arizona bar sitting a couple of stools down from me was persistent, so I reluctantly engaged. Read story
August 28, 2021, 6:01am Columns
I will not lie. I want lots of space placed between a beautiful duck gliding on the marshes and the duck a l’orange carefully arranged on my plate. And I’ll never forget the jarring sight of a hawk plucking a baby duck from the water. Its pathetic little quacks still… Read story
August 27, 2021, 6:01am Columns
He said many profound things that day. Read story
August 25, 2021, 6:01am Columns
Amid the chaos in Kabul, politicians and pundits have declared the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan a defeat from which U.S. influence may never recover. Read story
August 24, 2021, 6:01am Columns
By acting nobly on slavery, Abraham Lincoln once said, America could be “the last best hope of Earth.” But right now we look more like the United States of incompetence. Read story
