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Solving the World on a Ramble

I don’t know that we solved any of the world’s problems as we walked and talked, but we did at least for a time solve the modern problem of living in a high-tech, too much information, too much sitting culture.

Bert Sacks, Seattle Individualist: Two Obituaries

Newspaper people talk a lot to people who stick their necks out, and Bert stuck his neck out further than most.

Saw, Baby, Saw? Trump’s Emergency Threat to our Forests

Pruning regulation and felling trees on the scale that the Trump orders contemplate won’t be a slam-dunk. The path to more logging runs through a tangled thicket of laws and regulations.

Will Alberta Leave Canada? Its Conservative Premier Pushes the Case

“I’ve drawn a pretty clear line in the sand” in dealing with Ottawa, says Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith. One problem: it’s more of a movable wish list than a line. And she’s been on both sides of the line.

Be Outraged with Me: Rob from the Poor for Tax Breaks for the Rich

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” that Donald Trump got the House to pass is 1,116 pages big,...

Call to Battle: We Must Stand in Solidarity with Harvard

Trump’s selective aim at Harvard is taken almost directly from the Nazi playbook’s attack on Frankfurt University very short weeks after Hitler took power in Germany in January 1933.