Democrats and Republicans offer two competing solutions that depend on interpreting or amending the Constitution. If either solution were successful, the next battle between any Administration and Congress to balance the budget by raising a debt ceiling would be eliminated. 

Millions are spent by publishers trying to game the system so that platforms send them readers. When the game’s rules change, as it does from time to time, publishers scramble to figure out the new game.

There is something to be said for all these mingled connections, for neighbors who know and depend on one another, and for kids growing up in the midst of a thick community, with a sense of place.

“Here is a classic symbol of overwrought totalitarianism, dropped in the middle of an anarcho-libertarian neighborhood, available for all to mock and ponder the horror of,” writes one of the Times’ readers. “He gets a yellow rubber duck on his head for Easter,” writes another.

Trifles? Well, yes. So? It is a frothy exhibition game, and we are Americans. As noted baseball historian Stephen Sondheim once wrote: Something appealing, something appalling.

When I was walking the dog at Cape Lookout, and George H.W. Bush was promising to become “the environmental president,” there was a clear window for pro-active response to the looming climate crisis. The window is closing fast.

Cascadia Daily is a rare beast among startups bringing local news to underserved markets. Most new ventures are digital-only nonprofits that rely on help from public-spirited donors. Cascadia (CDN) instead is a for-profit venture.

In it’s first week, Threads attracted over 100 million users, making it the fasted-growing new app ever, by a lot. The old record was set by ChatGPT, which took two months to reach 100 million users after launch on November 39, 2022. 

Developing clean energy can grow local economies and provide local health benefits due to improved air quality. However, the transition will not be equitable without careful planning and authentic engagement with communities that have historically been left out of decision-making and whose lands could be impacted by clean energy development.

If any of the post-mutiny reports on Prigozhin’s whereabouts are true, that would represent a stunning departure from Putin’s response to far less serious challenges to his power.

The fatal spectacle of silly rich men on an egotistical lark is far less disturbing than the monstrous attention paid to their foibles while the yearly deaths of desperate thousands at sea elicit a concern like that voiced over the demise of a shoal of herring.

West Marginal Way threads it way to and from Hugo’s home town of White Center.  Later poems feature the streams and mountains of Montana.

This new trend seems counterintuitive (at least to me) given that consumers are drifting away from wine and toward a plethora of other alcoholic...

The onetime King County Sheriff appears as the great hope of Washington’s more traditional, conventional Republicans. The reception of the MAGA crowd is less welcoming.

From the '50s through at least the '70s it was popular to “channelize” rivers up here in Northwest Oregon, meaning use a bulldozer to cut one deeper, straight channel to reduce high-water flooding. But that came at a cost to natural and fish habitat.

After the Civil War, the area was discovered by wealthy, horse-keeping Manhattanites. In the time-honored pattern, they built summer cottages there and later turned them into Gatsby-like mansions.

Cohen, 33, is making waves these days as a busybody among musical busybodies. Whether operating as a bandleader, as part of his Master’s Legacy Series – recording alongside legends like Jimmy Cobb and Ron Carter – or as a sideman for Veronica Swift and Herlin Riley, the New Jersey native continues to scale all manner of jazz ladders, taking third place in DownBeat’s most recent Pianist Poll (behind Herbie Hancock and Brad Mehldau, not bad company).

Before the Court acted to overturn Roe, support for reproductive rights had remained remarkedly consistent over the decades: some 60 percent of Americans approved abortion with some restrictions.

A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit has stayed U.S. District Judge Richard Jones’ May order that would have shut down the Southeast Alaska troll fishery for chinook salmon.  More legal challenges will follow.

Hey, we’re in Seattle, the city that GQ magazine once labeled “America’s Least Funny City.”

I sat on the stairs with my two sisters. We could see the parade was three blocks away, headed our direction. A big young man, with a colorful loose shirt, came up to us. He had a broad smile, we knew him from our Aunt Gladys, who had said, that's JoJo Sprague, don't worry, he's fine.

Martha Argerich, 82, is apart from her reputation as perhaps the greatest living pianist, also famous for last-minute cancellations, a risk for those who travel distances to hear her. But not this time.

As you may have heard, team and town are hosting the 93rd MLB All-Star Game, a four-day seamhead festival climaxing at 5 p.m. July 11 at T-ball Park with the nationally televised game on Fox. Since the award of each season's host city is done several years in advance, it is not merit-based.

In 1805-1806, Lewis and Clark, Thomas Jefferson’s intrepid travelers, first charted the Gorge’s path and wonders.  Later, trappers, voyageurs, and missionaries followed and mapped and described new details of this unique highway.

"Eyrie's Pinots set a towering standard for ageworthiness; they often don't begin to evolve until most other wines of the vintage have died."

Every engineer’s dream of “keeping it simple” is not an option when building any Navy combat ship, much less a behemoth like these new aircraft carriers.

Living in Italy is like living inside multiple, simultaneous movies, with an endless selection of historic periods, subjects, and surroundings.

Of course, in a press release, NatGeo tried to present a rosy picture on its staff cutbacks, saying: “Staffing changes will not change our ability to do this work, but rather give us more flexibility to tell different stories and meet our audience where they are across our many platforms." That assertion is highly questionable.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is implementing a controversial carbon tax and has committed Canada to what he calls a low carbon economy. Ironically, at the same time Trudeau is the chief architect of TransMountain expansion.

Jessica Grose says that what churches offer that people aren’t finding elsewhere is a “ready-made supportive community.” But here’s the thing. “Ready-made supportive community,” doesn’t just happen. Such a community asks things of people.