Reading through Francis Fukuyama’s book, Liberalism and Its Discontents, I found it more timely than I expected, given the running test - almost daily...

In sum: an appropriate liturgical farewell to a man of the liturgy, whatever expectations were frustrated.

I am calling out some of the top wines I've tasted in 2022 that are still available for purchase. Most are priced at $40 and under, with just a couple of exceptions.

Even though the twisting lasted until McCarthy squeaked into the speakership in Round 15, the Democrats chose not to throw McCarthy a lifeline, for several reasons.

The rich history of Seattle would have been a relatively modest story without these watery links to the second largest lake in Washington State.

"The farms of our Marche region feel approachable, intimate, and reflect individual family traditions."

Look for Big Garbage, Big Groceries, and Big Soda to play aggressively here, opposing an onerous solution.

I blame this anger on The Great Disjunction, by which I mean the yawning abyss between the world as narrated to us by public relations, advertising, and the imagery of consumerism, and our actual reality.

Our brains work differently. Scientists are specialists who know a lot about a few things. Journalists are generalists who know a little about a lot of things.

Seattle's economy is full of young, highly educated, and disruptive people, but the political leadership is showing its age.

Ironically, the 20 anti-McCarthy votes went to election denier Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, who himself nominated McCarthy.

The richness of this book comes as much on its essays about places and people as in cooking instructions. 

I have found that in the interest of saving the planet from plastic waste, these days it’s best to take a backpack.

I think now of the faint wooden scent of the smooth paper harkening me to hope.

What does a rodeo rider do after breaking bones and breaking horses in a relatively short and violent career?  The answer often was to go to Hollywood.

How often have you heard it said that what matters most is what you yourself like? There's a lot of truth there, and the more knowledge you bring to bear on any given wine will enhance your overall experience.

The galvanizing message of the Biden Doctrine is much like the founding principle of NATO, that an attack on any one of the alliance’s 30 member states is an attack on all and must be collectively defended.

A more realistic assessment of the human condition leads to compassion not only toward others but toward yourself.

The many pollsters and consultants who insisted inflation was the number one  issue and that crime in the streets was a close second deserve to be fired.

It’s there, rather than in the deep, headlong main channels of rivers like the Fraser, that salmon and other fishes spawn, and there that young fish shelter, feed, and grow.

The Pew Research Center's findings always help me better understand our world and what to worry about or celebrate as we start a new year.

Democracies have turned back aggression and regression, for now.  As Biden noted, however, what’s needed is “a fresh start for our nation.” 

That the jury voted to connect with only one accuser shows how difficult it is to hold sexual abusers accountable -- and how much bravery it takes for victims to go public.

The guess is here the Mariners are again so far behind, it will take another 20 years to catch up.

Although twice reshaped, Larsen's urban-rural-island Second District has, in words of an Al Swift quip, “every problem known to man with the possible exception of wheat rust.” 

Just don’t mess with my favorite game.

Federal fish biologists concluded: “The isolated effects of Puget Sound commercial net pens on habitat conditions (i.e., water quality, forage, and cover) are likely to be minor and intermittent.”

Pessimism is a hungry beast. Most Decembers, I’m all too happy to feed it. But this year feels different. Faced with our typical naysaying, our 12-month doom loop, I’ve been suffering knee-jerk optimism.

Here, plywood hasn’t all come down and some folks still avoid downtown; they certainly won't go to tea in restaurants that used to be. And many seem to lack a yen to see their offices again.

The crab pots were hung and the crabbers reposed Since Dungeness season was finally closed. The children were snuggled as if in a coma Induced perhaps by the pulp mill’s aroma.