“I walked the tightrope for two-and-a-half years. Eventually, the rope snapped.”

Congressional candidate Marie Gluesenkamp Perez knows her positions anger both Democrats and Republicans. Is it a winning formula?

The garlic, parsley and butter are meeting their oldest pal, the wild mushroom, who has been away, in the deepest woods. 

Early Music Seattle, a mainstay of Seattle's classical music for 45 years, is now embarking on some significant changes and multicultural broadening.

Writing on fascism, Trotsky noted its ultra-nationalist streak and that it stoked (and fed off) the anger and grievances of the middle class while at the same time being pro-corporation and anti-worker.

The trouble with a high anthropology is that when you don’t achieve the extraordinary, and your life isn’t totally amazing, you may feel as if you’ve failed.

Between 60 and 70 percent of BIPOC students in Seattle can’t read effectively. You don’t need dozens of academic studies to know that any weak reader will continue to do poorly in school.

“You can have a good year – a great candidate, a winning campaign, accolades for being a strategic genius and feel like you’re on top of the world. Then you turn around and get completely shellacked and you question why you’re even in the business."

The $1.75 million he has poured into Betsy Johnson’s campaign is a big number, even for the billionaire Nike founder.

'Nanoeconomics.' This is a system of economics centered around small transactions between individuals — often by people who know each other."

Victimhood is not a recommended theme for reaching out. 

“Geno was the best he’s ever been,” said Pete Carroll. “He was ready for this game.” Said Smith: “People wrote me off. I didn’t write back.”

On July 21, the state supreme court said unanimously that the state does indeed have a duty to the schools and other beneficiaries, BUT it also has a duty to “all the people.”

In my dark and threatening world the Royal Family glittered. 

To many here in Okinawa, the national government’s firm commitment to the alliance just reinforces their own feelings of estrangement.

“The Queen held a special place in her heart for British Columbia: We were honored to host the Queen seven times, six as reigning monarch,” B.C. Premier John Horgan said Thursday.

The party’s urban leadership may have missed the memo. But hereabouts we know that demographically, things have changed in Eastern Washington.

A theory: "Recent moves to reform voting systems – here and elsewhere – are rooted in large part in growing public anxieties that our democracy, as currently constituted, is failing."

What people tend not to see as they cheerfully dismiss their own rules of the road is the way that this empowers bad actors.

The sighting was something special for Seattle, which in the 1980s was seldom a must-stop destination for dignitaries.

Russell Wilson didn’t want to be here. Pete Carroll didn’t want him to be here. Simple.

He is a great illustration of what has distinguished America — our ability to take in people from all over the world and utilize and embrace their talents.

Has our image of exceptionalism, seeing ourselves as the most democratic and free republic, blinded us from applying the law to our former leaders?

Only 12 percent of Britons polled by YouGov expect Liz Truss to be a good or great government chief. More than half – 52 percent -- predict she will be poor or terrible.

Originally, Labor Day was much about celebrating labor organizing. Now, it's more about celebrating the end of summer.

Leibovich starts with the view from the Trump International Hotel, “the flagship payola palace” that operated a few blocks from the White House. 

The results so far:  The Democrats have punched above their weight, increasing their vote in five special House races. 

The new chief will be taking the helm in very rough seas.

The Bible is actually pretty clearly in the debt-forgiveness camp.

Gorbachev’s idea of humane communism never became a reality. His attempts to reform a brutal Communist empire garnered admiration around the world but failed to inspire his own people.