By “liberalism” Fukuyama means “the doctrine that emerged in the second half of the seventeenth century that argued for the limitations of the powers of governments through law and ultimately constitutions, creating institutions protecting the rights of individuals living under their jurisdiction.”

With or without his shades, Joe Biden is feeling good about himself.

We finally have four major pillars to form the foundation of climate action in the U.S. at a meaningful scale.

What are the chances of getting enough votes for any sensible reform?  And if Congress now or after the mid-terms actually coalesced around changing the Court, should we be encouraged or scared?

"All countries and cultures possess a capacity for racism, and Italy is no exception."

Kent has emerged as a right-wing media darling. 

In short, the best exemplar of Seattle's deep traits.

An exhaustive 2019 study by the political reform group, Unite America, concluded that, though 63 percent of Americans SAY they favor a third party, they don’t vote that way.

If you make them well and nimbly, they will sit brilliantly at your own table and disappear, just as fries might.

Michael Pollan's appearance felt canned and well-rehearsed; neither a speech nor a reading but an hour of back and forth between Pollan and the editor of his newsletter.

Often ripped out of bed in the middle of the night, she and younger brother James rode along with Bob and Marika Tur as they patrolled the skies over Los Angeles.

There may be more to life on Bainbridge Island than you ever imagined.

Protests at Growler overflights have involved not only Coupeville but Port Townsend and towns of the Quimper Peninsula. 

A generation, perhaps two, have grown up without the trappings of a Christian culture.

It’s fair to point out that boredom, real or feigned, has been an on-and-off feature of Seafair.

The campaign to succeed Johnson is mercifully short and political polling frequent enough to track changes in the fluctuating mood of the electorate.

He will discuss a theoretical text Questions of Perception he authored with Alberto Perez-Gomez and Juanita Pallasma in 1994. 

Corporate equity and transparency are the core issues, since as servers’ “tipping out” the back line help is nothing new.  What is new is the method. 

Seattle is a mid-sized city that ought to scale its dreams to its budgets.

Brook’s misfortune as an artist was success: too much, too incessant, too routine.

With a lot of “safe” one-party districts, and a wide-open top-two primary shifted to August, many battles pit Democrat against Democrat and Republican vs. Republican.

Whipped, it is in truth not much cream. A pint will last easily a week. Whipped cream is the present. A perfect present tense, in the proper place.

The Festival began with an idea, a vision, a bucolic place, and a dynamic leader.

Those who worked closely with Harvey have long thought about the hole in his psyche that he was desperate to fill.

Fortunately, Washington state has been spared political havoc.  So far.

It's not easy to follow this last-minute money. The money behind Conservatives for a Stronger America is still anonymous, hidden behind the same Massachusetts-based consultant, Charles Gantt.

Across the country Native Tribes are an increasingly significant player on many fronts.

“I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous peoples,” said Francis, speaking at the site of what was once one of the largest residential schools in the country.

Jobs plus industrial revival plus national security plus carbon-free industry — small wonder Washington’s entire congressional delegation, Ds and Rs together, signed a letter endorsing the project. 

We should recognize that this is likely to be a recession with very unique characteristics, and won’t be easily mapped to recent ones.