In the age of twitter and other social media, it is still necessary that the leader of the nation confront in person an audience of trained journalists who can ask questions that the ordinary citizen will never be able to ask in person.

Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelensky seems well cast in the farce that has become Trump's Last Days.

In a debate one side wins and the other side loses. How many debates end with the losing side agreeing that they were wrong?...

The suggestion from Pittsburgh is not to keep trying to sell season tickets and individual tickets at the usual high prices ($50-$120), but instead to adopt the museum model.

House Democrats, you have the power to maintain the relevance of the Constitution. Do your job. Do your duty.

Maybe the tribes could be part of her broader approach to the problems of rural America.

As the Christine Blassey Ford testimony and Kavanaugh's indignant response riveted voters' attention, the swing to the Republican Rossi was huge, 57-33, according to Elway.

The rush to electric scooters as a solution to urban congestion and traffic woes is hitting town in a very Seattle way: cautiously, processed-to-death—and maybe too late.

Steven Holl was almost the architect of Seattle's Central Library, where he was the runner-up to Rem Koolhaas.

Fake news? Sure. But reality shows don't have consequences that affect anyone's lives except the people that volunteer for them... or do they?

Wonder why Boeing's stock hasn't plunged since two of its planes crashed? Writer Maureen Tkacik traces how Boeing downgraded the actual designing and making of planes in favor of questionable supply chain mandates and insulating its stock price from market shocks.

If Norwegians and Swedes laid down the legends of the Puget Sound country, Finns were their counterparts in southwest Washington and northwest Oregon in lands drained by the mighty Columbia.

Interest groups have a half-life of about 30 years in the fluid, non-partisan world of Seattle politics.

The best thing you can say about Julian Castro’s taunting of Joe Biden about “forgetting what he had just said” (which he hadn’t) is...

We live in historic times. Our system is being realigned as a seventh party system firms up. Republicans have chosen long term political suicide by alienating everyone other than their increasingly narrow base. The door is open for the Democrats.

With so many threats to American security and democracy that every one of the 10 candidates was able to plant his or her flag on a vital issue.

Axios on Monday heralded “a steady and indisputable trend: The Democratic 2020 race is a three-way brawl between 70-somethings.” Not so fast.

Jackson and Magnuson each established a formidable legislative record. When it came to getting bills passed in Congress, these senators would put today’s Congress to shame.

My agenda is different from that of many others in this race. It’s progressive, common-sense, do-able, unifyingly progressive.

John Bolton's departure as National Security Advisor shows Trump trusts his gut more than any advisor's advice.

No one really expects Congress to appropriate two-thirds of a trillion dollars for Hanford cleanup, not even spread over 75 years. Set the barrier high enough, and of course the government has to come up with Plan B. Cue the effort to reclassify waste.

A study found that "despite the economic hardships that local newspapers have endured, they remain, by far, the most significant providers of journalism in their communities.

We don't expect legislators to stop legislating in their final months in office, but under what circumstances are we comfortable with them dictating terms to their successors?

Rather than purity tests, David Roberts argues, better to have complex answers to the separated problems.

He's got a bad back, and he seems to have grasped the obvious point that his candidacy might well re-elect Trump.

We top lists of growth, education and creative class workers. But Richard Florida's lists omit Seattle in one important category.

It was uplifting to hear such passionate and detailed plans for averting the obliteration of Planet Earth from all 10 leading Democratic presidential candidates at the CNN climate forum Wednesday night.

There's a popular saying in academic circles: ask ten professors a question, and you'll get twelve different answers. The research studies on "broken windows" raise this same frustration.

Town Hall evolved organically from its early days, when maps didn't exist, to the beloved and grand institution of today. Who would've thunk it? Certainly not me!

The same night that bike batteries ignited in the Lime Bike Ballard warehouse, passerby video caught a spectacular Lime Bike battery pyrotechnics at the UW campus.