To listen to the author in conversation with Gluesenkamp Perez, go to Blue City Blues, S1, episode 19: “Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on What Urbanites...

At the same time the Mariners catcher rides his aircraft carriere derriere to the far horizons of pop culture, he also has become the team anchor. No easy metaphorical feat. For him (or me).

If the Democratic senator had any special connection to New York City, it seems to have gone unrecorded.

Trump and his aides are doing their best to divert attention from Epstein—notably by declaring that Barack Obama is guilty of treason.

The project is a giant tradeoff. It will displace villages, as was the case when a total of 1.4 million people were uprooted when the reservoir behind Three Gorges filled. It is in an earthquake zone.

Political warning signs are up for two high profile officeholders. A pair of just-released polls show Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell in a neck-and-neck race...

Will the indisputable pile-up of injury statistics and the endless sidewalk clutter ever get an engaged response from SDOT?

Churches cannot — should not — ignore the moral and theological issues at stake in politics. But their teaching should be directed toward what light their faith and tradition shed on issues, not on telling people what to think or whom to vote for.

Somehow you, the intrepid garbageman, must navigate this difficult couple of blocks in an over-sized truck.

In the novel, Buzz Windrip accedes to the Oval Office, and his administration jams a new jackbooted order in place. It is a white supremacist program that persecutes people of color and Jews and greatly dilutes the rights of women.

Something changed somewhere along the way. The stories highlighted and the perspective taken by NPR became predictable, repetitive, and tedious.

Newhouse “betrayed the 4th District twice, in less than six weeks,” the Herald Republic, Newhouse's hometown paper, editorialized.

An on-line interview recently said many people are leaving the U.S. to find the American Dream — a statement filled with irony and sorrow.

A new report features fixes that have largely been off-limits for discussion by government groups reluctant to enrage commercial fishers, recreational fishers, or tribes.

In a remarkable upset, progressive State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary.  Early polls showed Mamdani starting his campaign with around...

This July 22 marks the 132nd anniversary of the day in 1893 when the first stanzas of the popular anthem “America the Beautiful” were written in Colorado by Katharine Lee Bates, a Massachusetts-born poet, scholar and social justice advocate.

That in 1929-1931 neither The Times nor The P-I ever profile Paul E. Williams and his hot new company tells me that the man won’t talk.

What should the public expect going forward on taxes and spending? On education and transportation funding? On the ongoing culture war battles?

If ever a politician shared in a debacle of his own making, it is Donald Trump. The man who managed to escape time after...

The experience and tragedy of the anti-Hitler plotters carry lessons for the 21st Century, including lessons for this Republic approaching its 250th birthday. It can happen here.

Factual knowledge opens windows on the world around us. It frees students to think outside the boxes of their upbringing. Parents want their children to have access to this knowledge, but not when it draws children away from the beliefs and bonds of home.

The book’s central argument is that modern government, federal, state, and local — government created largely by Democrats — has made it hard to build anything, including the things Democrats want.

The most contentious primary race is likely the contest for Seattle city attorney. Incumbent Ann Davison, who once ran for state office as a Republican, is falling behind three challengers in fundraising.

Like many men, I ignore instructions on newly purchased items. After buying a 45-piece tricycle kit, I would immediately start to screw pieces together. “Why are the tires on the handlebars?” my wife will ask.

In these sour times incumbents are fair game and voters look for someone to blame.

During the day much of the seating is occupied by homeless people who, yes, have a right to use the library, but not to use it as a shelter. My own usage of the Ballard library has gone down because of this, making me part of a national trend.

“I was reading all this stuff and I just thought, these are the best scenes ever written for an actor. I knew all these out-of-work actors, these ACT alums, and we’re all sitting around waiting for the next great play to land in our laps so that we can get our health insurance, and I thought, why aren’t we doing literature on stage?

When she died, she was lauded as a champion of the Civil Rights movement and the LGBTQ community by scores of friends and customers of Bailey-Coy books on Capitol Hill, her long-time perch at Seattle’s center point.

The uncertainty about tariffs will continue indefinitely. The whole episode is a farce.

You don’t need be a weather forecaster to know which way the wind is blowing, and to see the immediate peril facing public radio and public television.