The original bill was a blueprint to create more housing around public transit, broaden the types of housing that neighborhoods can permit, and beat down housing prices by shoring up the housing supply.  

"We knew the morons were in the overwhelming majority. But…we felt more or less sure that they would be held in check. We moved among them with the same unconcern with which visitors to a modern cageless zoo walk past the beasts of prey, confident that its ditches and hedges have been carefully calculated.”

We Jerks are victims of demeaning verbal assaults, overt discrimination, micro-insults, stereotyping, and exclusions that invalidate our cultural heritage.

The Romans made it way before tomatoes were introduced into the culture. In the early years of this century, an enterprising Roman chef claims to have re-discovered pinsa.

Fox News is a bottom dweller pursuing the bottom line -- with private contempt for the choir to which it is preaching.

The frenetic pace refuses to let up, with some of the most spectacular visuals, funniest jokes, jaw-dropping choreography, and genuinely moving moments all happening in a rush.

Is big-city Seattle ungovernable, or is an entrenched Democratic/Progressive establishment dominated by activists and unions just not up to the job?

The prevailing theory among human rights activists about what is motivating the poisonings is the Islamic regime’s intentional punishment of predominantly young and female protesters of endemic misogyny that have shaken Iran for six months.

This book has been removed from school libraries and curricula across the U.S. because of the story it tells so plainly, poignantly, and without gratuitous effect.

The more the commissioners have focused on the new things, the less they could focus on the old ones.

Along with two other Democrats from red states, Sens. Sherrod Brown in Ohio and Joe Manchin in West Virginia, Tester faces the toughest turf in 2024.  Brown is seeking reelection. Manchin hasn’t announced plans.

Every single one of the dozen wines I tasted held together beautifully on the third and sometimes fourth day. Ageworthy? You bet. But with a bit of aeration they are fine for drinking immediately, the older vintages of course, but even the most recent releases.

The Brennan court adopted the “actual malice” standard: to prove libel a public figure must show that a statement was known to be false or was printed with reckless disregard. A vivid example of attempting to show actual malice is on display in the Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion lawsuit against Fox News.

“This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America.”

Asked why today there are thousands of homeless in Seattle, Joe Martin partly blames the city’s years of tearing down SROs, the old single-occupancy hotels.

Many sports fans indulge the reverie that teams most of the time share an overarching camaraderie and purpose. That's often true. But it's just about as often that managers and laborers would be thrilled to step out into the street and settle things.

New Chatbots like ChatGPT and image generators like DALL-E have set the internet on fire. The hype and hyperbole is off the charts. Is our smart tech setting us up for a sci-fi dystopia or will it usher in a Golden Age of innovation? Tom Corddry, Kevin Schofield and Douglas McLennan discuss.

Today, for example, many who self-identify as “Evangelical” do not attend a church nor are they biblically literate. Religion, as with Donald Trump, sanctifies a political agenda allowing authoritarian politicians to exploit religion language and people.

If you have even a passing interest in writers and the role of their editors, Turn Every Page is a master class in editing relationships and should not be missed.

A haunting, atmospheric work full of lush evocative music rendered in technicolor orchestrations inflected with Afghanish flourishes. 

One popular pattern is to sell to a commercial developer part of the church property and use the money to refurbish the main sanctuary or to build a new church elsewhere.

The rush to save the world’s most advanced semiconductors recalls the fight in the late 1960s and early 1970s over the Supersonic Transport. That didn't work out well.

Mark Dones dared to be honest about what is required to solve homelessness. In so doing, Dones exposed the hypocrisy of local leaders, who want to appear as if they are solving homelessness but are unwilling to (or incapable of) going to bat for the resources it will take to truly do so.

I was a young, inexperienced, long haired Anglo lawyer. I didn’t realize at the time that I was embarking on a life changing experience.

Gazing westward these nights, it is possible to grasp how we fit into this stupendous ballet. 

The unending shootings may drive us to despair — “nothing works,” “there’s nothing we can do.” That simply isn’t true.

It’s perhaps unsurprising that the man behind In a Silent Way and Bitches’ Brew should put on one of the winter’s more inscrutable shows.

Driving in Italy can be hazardous to one’s mental health.

The money at both the state and the local levels — more than $700 million per year — would be largely earmarked for affordable housing.

Despite all their value as community expression, letters to the editor have become an endangered species.