A green energy tsunami can do much more than reverse the climate crisis, it can deliver unprecedented new benefits.

Will the tendency of the conservative majority to make a decision much broader than the case requires show itself here?

“Ageism poisons creativity. And ageism -- the deep and often unconscious prejudice against old age and against the old -- is, in our American society, rampant."

In the last nearly four decades I have seen all Wagner’s regularly performed operas at Seattle Opera.

“I’ve got to run a perfect campaign:  One slip up and I’m toast,” Schrier told supporters on Tuesday night.  "This is a nail biter."

The fundamental issue in the long term is simple: ferries are less cost effective than bridges and tunnels. But tell that to the ferry lobby.

Andrew Grant Houston’s long-shot campaign collected $342,058, and paid Prism West $149,526 for its voucher-harvesting services. Strangely that didn’t translate into many votes.

Poorly-conceived political ploys aimed at amassing power in Washington’s dysfunctional and narrow-thinking legislative ranks run the risk of appeasing the aggressor in the Kremlin.

At the 19th Party Congress in addition to hailing the chief, it gave Xi Jinping what he wanted, an open-ended term at the top, so no surprises there

The PAC, which is closely tied to the House GOP leadership, is running ads like one tying Schrier to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and higher taxes. The money comes from absolutely massive donations from some of the fattest cats in Republican politics.

I wish I felt more confidence in the fragile governing structures of these unwieldy beasts.

The Survey USA findings show a whopping gender gap, with Murray enjoying a 55-35 percent lead among women, while Smiley leads 49-43 percent with male voters.

David Eby, 46, began his legal career working in Vancouver’s drug-ridden Downtown Eastside and later was executive director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association. 

The latest appeal from Jay Inslee for Washington speaks not a word on how the donation will be spent and fails to mention the mid-term election in Washington state.

Churches need to help us become more patient, rather than less so, with one another.

While there isn’t yet any grand advance design of a social credit system along the lines of the Chinese Communist Party, I cannot help but worry that we are assembling the ideal toolset for ideological enforcement.

Maggie Haberman blames the social, cultural, political, and moral breakdown that overtook New York in the 1970s and that allowed the Trump virus to grow.

The fear-inducing tone of Smiley’s ceaseless stream of e-mails, begging money for the Republican’s U.S. Senate campaign, makes me wonder whether to respond with a contribution or call for a crisis intervention.

To hear some Americans talk, you'd think Italy was the promised land of the rip-off.

The excruciating 21-year wait to return to the postseason ended in an even more excruciating manner -- a six-hour, 22-minute molar-grinder against the American League's best team that had enough shoulda-woulda-coulda to displace all the water in Puget Sound.

Xi Jinping has 12 titles and counting, many of them created after he took office in 2012. Some of his titles are opaque, but taken together they are evidence of a man who has accumulated power.

The campaign implicitly challenges the identification of Jesus with Republican politics and U.S. nationalism.

The Republican-run Montana Legislature, seeking to make it difficult for people we met to vote, has deployed distances in the Big Sky State as a political weapon.

Stopping Christian Nationalism from becoming malignant must begin at the local and state levels, and with civic education.

It’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that secondhand smoke from bong smoking is incredibly harmful, both while someone in the room is smoking and for a very long time afterward.

I still like my idea that sports mascots could be any gender.

The current Oregon governor’s race is one of the most remarkable contests in the state’s history. It is also one of the most intriguing, competitive, fluid, and volatile elections in the nation.

It was terrible to see the Toronto pitcher hit Julio on his first two at bats, a 21-year-old kid. Honestly, I would have told my pitcher to throw and try to hit the Toronto manager, in the dugout.

As Philadelphia Inquirer columnist David Murphy described it: “Watching playoff baseball is like watching a loved one defuse a bomb.”

The suspected Ukrainian hand in Saturday’s bombing of the $4-billion Kerch Strait Bridge linking the Russian mainland to Crimea may not have damaged the strategic span as much as it did Putin’s pose as commander-in-chief directing a war that is “going as planned.”