“My commitment to progressive change is second to none, but I believe in building bridges, not driving wedges."

The capital gains tax was the most consequential piece of tax policy passed in Washington in decades, and the Supremes’ ruling could drastically reshape politics by putting other progressive taxes that have long been illegal here back on the table.

Hostility to mail-in voting, along with casting suspicion, became part of the 2020 Trump reelection strategy, and the evolving plot to challenge election results if “the Donald” lost. 

COVID has settled into the background noise, there but politically unpopular and largely receding in public consciousness as a threat. It doesn't mean COVID has gone away.

The message to governments is clear: skip the rent control, and jump straight to the part where they invest in building more housing. Admittedly, that’s a tough sell: rent control is very seductive as public policy.

They are a diverse crew with distinctive personalities, different interests, and a staying power that is yielding political power.

International travel by Chinese will be felt like a tsunami this spring when capacity meets demand.

What’s unique about the Yellowjackets, especially in the world of jazz, is their unabashed “band-ness,” which affects the quartet’s song arrangement, stage demeanor, and everything in between.

Why does the world's arguably greatest and most versatile white wine grape remain so stubbornly in the shadows of lesser viniferas?

Kshama Sawant makes noise. Always. To opponents, the sound is irritating and the tactics worse. She breaks the unwritten rules, and sometimes the written ones. She asks for the whole loaf.

One of the strengths of Asaka's book is the way it writes "history from below," digging up information about ordinary, struggling, marginalized people who don't make the newspapers or merit biographies.

Paul Theroux writes: "I think of myself in the Mexican way, not as an old man but as most Mexicans regard a senior, an hombre de juicio, a man of judgment."

The new journey is a continuation of Eruç’s first solo human-powered circumnavigation, which he completed in 2012 after five years and 41,196 miles by rowboat, sea kayak, foot, and bicycle.

If Harry suffered these indignities, he is profiting now, telling his side of the story in media-pushed accounts. He received a $20-million advance for his book which is the fastest selling nonfiction book ever.

The gravel reach has earned a near-universal “Heart of the Fraser” appellation. But it’s a heart with advancing coronary disease.

Joy Hollingsworth drew a crowd of 200 supporters on a holiday Monday to announce her Seattle City Council candidacy.

Balked at in Congress, newspapers take their case to Olympia, where AG Ferguson is happy to help.

Seattle is used to rebounds, and there are leading indicators of a coming boom.

Yes, the Seattle Times could have done better. But to hold up as an ideal the Bainbridge Island Review, the small weekly that famously defended the Japanese Americans, is to imagine the impossible.

By the time Camille Saint-Saëns got serious about composing Samson et Dalilah in 1877, grand opéra had already received its death blow, though nobody realized yet that the perky, melodious little opéra comique named Carmen was really an assassin.

Of course anti-alcohol, neo-prohibitionist movements are nothing new in the U.S. What seems different today is the thoughtfulness of the discussion surrounding the various sobriety movements.

The House Republicans’ IRS bill is mostly for show.

A key battleground is America, where there is a well-organized group opposing "Team Francis" on cultural issues.

The underlying issue is what, if any, circumstances allow groups to overpower freedom of speech, as happened at Hamline University.

My hunch is that the experience of being adrift, cut off from one’s moorings, is far broader than the fate of the Republican Party and those who once found a home in it.

Now it’s not obvious who runs anything, and the goodwill that fueled the George Duff style is in short supply.

The Seahawks are the first NFL team in 20 years to make the playoffs and also have a top-five pick in the next draft.

Empact Northwest’s initial work in the chaotic exodus following Russia’s Feb. 24, 2022, invasion focused on creating an orderly evacuation.

Seattle likes to think of itself as a mild-mannered place. Dori Monson grew up in Seattle, but he was not afraid of controversy.

Washington has completed its transition from borderline “purple” to being a solidly “blue” Democratic state.