One of the privileges of living past 80 is that we can remember a time when housing was not seen as a problem, and “homelessness” was not a word.

The spotlight this month is on retirement of longtime St. James pastor Fr. Michael Ryan. At the cathedral helm for 37 years and a galvanizing force for collaboration by faith communities, and a welcoming, inclusive Catholicism.

President Donald Trump plunged the United States into Israel’s war with Iran on Sunday with a predawn barrage of mega-bombs targeting critical Iranian nuclear...

As tough as it is to say that maybe we haven’t been fielding very good teams for quite a while, there’s an upside to it. If it’s at least partly on us, then maybe we can do something about it?

Following Bering's discovery of sea-otter riches, an almost endless train of adventurers and brigands struck out from Asia for North America with wild dreams of staggering wealth.

A bill written up this session to fence off your neighborhood from Wall Street begged the expensive question of just how many people live in what they own.

The Trump anti-DEI and immigration policies are threatening millions of dollars in funding for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport terminal and airfield projects.

A conspiracy theory, fabricated a far-right news site, was reposted on “X” — the former Twitter — by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, as well as by state Republican chair Jim Walsh and the Washington State GOP. 

Donald Trump has been the King of Chaos since way back, but he etched new chapters with his pyrotechnic feud with Elon Musk.

The power of No Kings was illustrated on Port Angeles sidewalks by the innumerable handmade signs as much as by the joy in the faces of the people who made and held them.

A Manchurian Candidate, as initially defined in Richard Condon’s 1959 novel and the 1966 movie, is a nation’s leader controlled by that country’s enemy. These works...

Locally, the debate over Smith's book became so acrimonious (shades of today's attack on "woke" academies) that several state legislators in 1915 introduced an amendment to a University Appropriations Bill abolishing Smith's department.

I tend, with Augustine and Niebuhr, to be a little skeptical about what we humans confidently declare as “good works.” Sometimes we are overly sure of our own goodness and of the goodness of our “good works.”

The brain drain started during the first Trump administration, when the so-called China Initiative targeted Chinese scientists for spying.

I marvel at how things seem, again and again, to work out for -- and to the benefit of -- Donald J. Trump.

The president will mark the Army’s 250th birthday (and his) by putting 6,700 troops on parade along with rocket launchers. Tanks will roll down streets of our national capital on Saturday.

Mapes lovingly lays out how old growth forests sustain fish runs — holding soil and cooling waters — while salmon carry nutrients in from the sea.

I suggest my party narrow its focus to removing barriers both in what we talk about and in the proposals we espouse.

My main suggestion is to steal some thunder from the Republicans and drifting voters by daring to embrace some populist ideas, rather than softening some core beliefs.

The author came to believe that to find peace, she’d have to return home and face her ghosts. Just months past her 30th birthday, she began her emotional expedition into her family’s past. It took Tessa nearly ten years to research and tell the story of her family’s three generations.

Leavitt: "The President said it. Therefore, it’s common sense and above the law."

Upon entering the University of Washington Anderson's natural speed and athletic ability impressed the famous track and field coach Clarence S. "Hec" Edmondson. 

The absence of class bias in the Italian education system leads to an overall social structure that involves less class-based distinctions in the general population.

We sensed what was happening but did not rise to reject an awful Biden-Trump choice. It did not have to be so.

This is not a Democrat-and-Republican issue. It’s about power. The inner circle around the president — the group that in the Biden White House was dubbed "the Politburo" — do not serve the public. They serve him.

These are charities that formed to engage the scandalous scale of today’s hunger problem. Working with insightful architects, both organizations have been able to build transformative facilities.

Ukraine’s audacious attack on Russia’s strategic bomber force, knocking out at least a third of the sophisticated planes slaughtering Ukrainian civilians, may not flip...

As Trump’s populist base learns the details of his “Big Beautiful Bill,” Republican members of Congress will face consequences.

Like a diamond in the rough, the plant brings with it not only its awesome past history but an imagined present.

Dan Evans could win statewide elections, which today’s MAGA Republicans have yet to do. The “Drill, baby, Drill” party of Trump denies global warming and would despoil the land -- not a winning formula in the Evergreen State.