Ferguson’s fundraising machine is working to create a sense of inevitability among the political donor class in aid of choking off the flow of money to opposition campaigns. With just under a year before the 2024 primary, he’s got a nearly 7-1 advantage.

With the once-“Solid South” now solidly Republican, picking up support in Western states has become essential for Democrats to win the White House, and to hold (barely) the Senate, and to fill campaign coffers.

One of the best animated movies of the year never even saw a theater. Overshadowed by the back-to-back releases of juggernauts like the Super...

A cultural battle to excuse Black slavery is a loser for DeSantis and Republicans. Not only because this is a merciless message but also because he ineptly initiated his plan.

The outcomes of the primary races mostly played out as expected. The basic pattern of Seattle municipal politics has held: each race advanced has one finalist rooted more in the left lane, and the other in the more moderate lane.

Tribal elders and an archaeologist declared Luma a CMT, a Culturally Modified Tree, as it was split when young to mark a trail.  The Snoqualmie Tribe also argued that rocks strung from limbs made them grow at right angles to mark directions to resource areas.

The biggest challenge for any winery producing a big lineup of Pinots from the same vintage is making each of them distinctive, stand-alone wines. When it gets down to single clone or block selections, all too often I taste a good component rather than a complete wine. The remarkable achievement at Patty Green Cellars is that the dozens of different cuvées are all distinctive and compelling, no matter the vintage.

Since the Senate vote, wrote Murkowski, evidence gathered by the House January 6 committee and other sources “only re-enforced that the former President played a key role in instigating the riots resulting in physical violence and desecration of the U.S. Capitol.”

His wife says, "If Erden dies at sea, well, that’s always been a possibility. But if he doesn’t do it I wouldn’t want to live with him because he’d be miserable and obsessed in a different way." Eruc belongs to "the tribe of restless souls."

There just isn’t time or energy for church. People in my generation say something like this about their adult children. “They’re so busy.” While that may be true, busyness is not so much the root of the problem as a symptom of it. Work has expanded to fill more and more of our lives. Yet even pointing to “Workism” may not go deep enough.

“The era of global warming has ended and the era of global boiling has arrived,” remarked UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. “The air is unbreathable, the heat unbearable and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable.”

For Seattle City Light the pursuit of carbon neutrality means electric rates will be going up over the next few decades, and probably not by a small amount.

Despite that negativity, Tuesday’s election early returns (some half of votes counted) didn’t begin to register as a blood bath. To the contrary. The three incumbents left in the running managed to survive the primary election, all three ahead of their nearest competitor.

Fat-cat money seems to have done the trick in helping establishment candidates in Seattle, but pro-business incumbents in Spokane and Whatcom are struggling.

Lisa Brown has struck a chord with the argument that Spokane is a city of unfulfilled promise, a city “stuck in neutral” while other Northwest cities have boomed in today’s technology-driven economy.

Long downward trajectories are part of our now-endless campaign season. So are comebacks, for a candidate who seizes the moment, picks the proper battlefield, takes risks and deploys resources.

Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy did a detailed analysis of the Democracy Voucher program across three elections. The study found vastly increased public participation among donors.

As the legend goes, the basement of the Jolly Roger offered illegal drinking, prostitution and gambling. A watchtower sat atop the Jolly Roger and when approaching police cars were spotted, an alarm would sound below which allowed all the guests to escape arrest by fleeing through the tunnel.

The state of Alaska has taken its case directly to the U.S. Supreme Court in an 11th hour effort to resurrect a giant, open pit copper and gold mine, proposed for a location in western Alaska that flanks two of Bristol Bay’s renowned salmon spawning watersheds.

No Labels is relying on an utterly false justification for considering a centrist challenge to likely major party candidates Trump and Joe Biden -- the assertion that both parties are dominated by extremists. Only the GOP is.

The young man and the little tie were together for years and eventually, they grew old, a little frayed, as they say, at the edges. But they did take one last walk, just to see.

To Hollywood, the “Red Scare” was a witch hunt — a term that implies that it was the pursuit of an imaginary danger. But in some big, important cases, it was not imaginary at all, though the persecution of Oppenheimer was shameful.

Since the mid-1980s, major college athletic departments were awash in revenues from the innovation of cable TV and its ravenous need for content to fill the 500-channel universe (remember that trope?). But these days, cable TV is shriveling, thanks to the latest innovation, streaming.

The reward for Italy’s diligence has been that this year the country received an EU allocation of €191 billion ($210 billion) for infrastructure projects. The program is known as the National Resilience and Recovery Plan.

At the first official meeting of the Outing Club in July, 1906, several signatories would have long and important roles in the growth of the University of Washington. They included F.M. Padelford, Judge J.T. Ronald, Henry Landes, and William Savery. Later, Pulitzer Prize winner and influential literary critic

The editors gave him an entire section front in the July 9 paper. That’s an indication of what they thought of him and what he wrote. Then Volodzko made his mistake: “I posted the column on Twitter and compared Lenin and Hitler.” He added, “It’s the kind of topic that you can debate among trusted friends over drinks or dinner.” Not with anonymous nitwits on Twitter.

The Democrats have given us America’s oldest president, but they are far more in sync with younger voters.

Personally, I’m okay with not looking for a messiah in politics. Political messiahs tend to be, at best, disappointing, and at worst, they morph into dictators. So Biden is boring.

Seattle, like many other cities, has built its arts facilities as a way to "save" downtown. But now, many cities such as Los Angeles are realizing that congestion, costs, and public safety are combining to create rival performance venues in nearby suburbs. That's happening here.

Punishing the Russian invasion’s more effective commanders for speaking truth to power is unlikely to reverse the damage Prigozhin’s mutiny inflicted on Putin’s posture as the strongest Russian leader since Peter the Great.