March 22, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Years ago, a contest was run for the most boring newspaper headline. The winner was “Worthwhile Canadian Initiative,” which appeared in the April 10, 1986, edition of The New York Times. “Worthwhile initiative” is a snooze-worthy phrase. Adding a reference to the quiet and restrained country to the north was… Read story
March 22, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Dear Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, Read story
March 22, 2025, 6:01am Columns
‘DOGE Has 10 Staffers at Social Security in Hunt for Dead People,” the headlines read recently. I found a dead person on Social Security. Right here in Seattle, on Capitol Hill. Read story
March 21, 2025, 6:01am Columns
This will always be the month that President Donald Trump broke my heart. Read story
March 20, 2025, 6:01am Columns
When he was a candidate for president, Donald Trump tended to rail about the stupidity and wastefulness of U.S. interventions in the Middle East. He blasted his predecessors as men who didn’t know what they were doing, naively believing that the U.S. military could will the region to bend to… Read story
March 19, 2025, 6:01am Columns
While Washington’s mail-in voting system is often criticized from the right for security that is too lax, it is not immune from challenges from the left for being too restrictive. Read story
March 18, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Border Czar Tom Homan was hand-picked by President Donald Trump to carry out the mass deportations that were central to Trump’s winning campaign. Since his appointment, Homan has sown fear among immigrant communities, blustered on television about prosecuting mayors of blue cities who don’t comply, and staged photo ops of… Read story
March 17, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Do you believe health care is a human right? Read story
March 17, 2025, 6:01am Columns
Boy, do I miss Joe Biden. I especially miss the former president when Donald Trump and his bobbleheads unfairly blame him for everything that’s gone wrong since Inauguration Day. Trump has since proven beyond doubt that he can wreck the economy all by his lonesome. And that’s not all he’s… Read story
March 17, 2025, 6:01am Columns
It started on Jan. 31, when someone named Mike Russo showed up at the Social Security Administration offices outside Baltimore and started introducing himself as a representative of DOGE, the federal budget-cutting service headed by Elon Musk. Read story
