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.

The vibe at the festival, dubbed “The World’s Largest Chamber Music Party,” is indeed festive.

I discovered that the Seattle City Council has approved one of the silliest and possibly most useless “civic improvement” schemes it has ever entertained. If you are a follower of city politics, you’ll know that is a high bar.

Many local prose writers flourish in the Northwest, as do historians and newspaper scribes. But the Pacific Northwest also has a solid tradition of poets and their publications, starting with the pioneers.

The polling message is that Democrats are out of touch with most voters and need to move to the mainstream center. That's where Third Way is.

Sometimes seminaries instill in their graduates a certain condescension toward the church and churches.

Longtime Mariners fans may recall that Bob Stinson had the best nickname for a catcher in club history. "Scrap Iron" was the starter in...

Defending their fossil fuel economy, Texas’ Republican rulers have adopted a three-pronged response to a stream of climate disasters: Belligerent denial of anything out of the ordinary, professed ignorance, and invocation of the Almighty.

The social costs of the war are becoming increasingly visible.

Time magazine put him on the cover with a headline “The Sniper,” and he was just that for much of his public life.

As long as Democrats draft any legislation assessing a president’s mental fitness to perform their duties and apply it to Trump, it is dead in the water. The same applies to Republicans seeking to prove that Biden was mentally incompetent to overturn his legislation. 

Press releases from members of Congress bear a curious resemblance to Subway sandwiches. Regardless of ingredients, they all contain the same flavor.

Not sure what to eat for dinner one day, my Beijing nephew suggested ordering Subway.

At times, the 1930s in this new history read like a lost decade, since many of the socialist and New Deal movements wane or over-reach.

A bit stagnant. A shadow of its former self. It’s heresy to say so, but in certain circumstances such as Buffalo’s, doldrums offer advantages in terms of quality of life, at least for those who remain and can earn a living.

Years ago, Albert Red Star Andrews of the Joseph Band of Nez Perce on the Colville Reservation in north central Washington, told me about a unique Fourth of July event on his reservation.

Immigration to America has strong ties to innovation. A stunning 44 percent of the nation’s medical scientists are foreign born, as are 42 percent of software developers.

A call to practice reconciliation is challenging. It will be met with a charge, from many, of “both-siderism.”

These Republican expectations are based on the scientifically proven interaction of Trickle Down prosperity and the theory of Advanced Voodoo Economics.

Because social media algorithms automatically stimulate strong emotions, they’re perfect for MAGA.

Murkowski is hoping the bill will be improved as it goes back to the House. The much greater prospect, of course, is that the screwed-up priorities will do lasting damage to our country.

The major outrage of this past month—protested in many cities—is the Trump administration’s ruthless “mass deportation” of undocumented immigrants— reminiscent of the rounding up...

This long-awaited attempt to resolve multiple class-action violations of antitrust law by the NCAA and its member schools is considered by some to be the most consequential business development in the history of college sports.

The nuclear states have mostly not fulfilled their pledge to disarm. This leaves the world divided between the dangerous have-states and the dangerously exposed have-not-states. Some critics have called this “nuclear apartheid.”

By the new sun, everything wants attention, the windows, the sills, your forearms, your pillows. It is time, metaphorically and literally, to clean your counters. Back to their bones, back to their very basics.

One of the most popular teachers on campus because of his "Socratic" classroom method, Vernon Parrington quietly pursued his research, tended his garden, raised two daughters and a son with his wife Julia, and wrote prodigiously.

The “shock and awe” attack strategy of the Trump Administration is being deployed against our 160-million-acre national forest system.

The best-selling book is a page-turner filled with confidences and self-effacing humor.  Awarded dual fellowships at Harvard, Ardern continues to teach there and advocate for a new kind of leadership -- one she calls “both caring and effective.”

Greenland is the world’s largest island. It’s about five times the size of California, and about 80% of it is covered in ice up to two miles thick (but shrinking). Its population is about 58,000 (the same as Lacey, WA) and seems to be shrinking as well.

His battle on behalf of the houseboats restored Pettus’ reputation and made him into a hero. Mayor Charles Royer designated March 7,1982 as Terry Pettus Day. The city set aside the street end just south of the houseboats as Terry Pettus Park in 1985.