America’s foreign trade fell by two-thirds in the Great Depression. It wasn’t all because of the tariff, but much of it was — and the plunge was in exports as well as imports. The one pays for the other; cut one, and you cut both.

I’m always curious to try to dig a little deeper into what specifically someone likes or dislikes, and it’s difficult (understandably) for most people to break down complex flavors and put them into words.

A world of trouble, travel, sexual adventures, and struggles for an education became Horace Cayton's life.

People who have died and come back are fascinating. We’re dying (sorry) to know if they picked up any interesting information while they were out there, and she was often asked about it.

Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi, a professor at Stony Brook and a Columbia University fellow, is having a well-deserved moment. His book, We Have Never Been...

Cuts to federal funding for research could result in less overall scholarly output and less open access publishing.

Reducing demand is certainly not an easy task for the U.S., and it is as tough to reduce supply.

The Trump resign-or-else message to federal workers is particularly insulting to park employees. Tell that to Mt. Rainier climbing rangers, or search and rescue teams who find lost hikers in the Olympics.

The Fort Worden PDA raised millions from private and public sources, borrowed millions more, hired scores of people and set out to transform the park into a regional venue for “life-long learning.” It didn’t work

Founder Dick Spady believed in keeping it simple. While other hamburger outlets added variations like bacon burgers, fishwiches and chicken burgers, Dick’s stuck to classic hamburger and cheeseburgers.

If the attention economy is new, the inner conflict between what we should do and what we actually do is very old, as old as Scripture.

City Council President Sara Nelson’s proposal would permit about 1,000 housing units just south of T-Mobile Park on two blocks within the special stadium district, reviving an old debate

Short bottles is a term my wife and I invented some years back, when it became clear that on certain occasions we had to...

“It Takes Chutzpah” has a serious goal, offloading what Wyden has learned and what works. Wyden has lived by the premise that anything worth doing is worth doing with enthusiasm. 

Historian Bernard DeVoto described this real estate deal (the purchase of western land from Napoleon) as "one of the most important events in world history."  America doubled its size at the stroke of a pen.

“We are relatively small compared with south of the border,” Eby said in an interview, discussing his country’s and province’s economy. BC has mapped out a response “as targeted as possible.”

I made extra rice and chopped everything I had. The lunch at Das Gasthaus was quite wonderful and festive and went on past 2 -- a lovely, deep snow.

How many homes does private equity own in Washington today? Hard numbers are hard to come by for our neck of the woods, but there’s a wealth of data on the matter at the national level.

Is the right answer to my promotion exam, Deep State Transgenders, or Illegal War-Mongering Ukrainian Immigrants?

The present occupant of the White House has obviously never read history or cares to. Trump and his supporters prefer a puerile chauvinism to histories that more properly define us.

In a menacing ultimatum more befitting a mafioso than a newly empowered world leader, Trump has declared that Greenland will become an American property one way or another.

For me the joy of wine discovery was driven by the same self-interest, and just as personal as any compelling hobby or avocation.

Despite three marriages, thousands of lies and countless demeaning of others, our 47th president has acquired a frervent, formidable amen corner among some Christians.

The onetime preschool teacher from Shoreline was uniquely positioned to press the nominee. Murray is the Senate’s longest serving Democrat.

Senate Bill 5576 would impose a 6% excise tax on short-term rentals statewide starting in 2026 to pay for local affordable housing programs.

The late PM Pierre Elliott Trudeau, father of Justin, famously equated living next door to the United States with being in bed with an elephant. Even if the beast is benign, said he, you “feel every twist and grunt.”

There are some in the local political world who believe that lots of Seattle voters think social housing is low-income housing, something they’re used to voting for in large majorities. But social housing is not low-income housing, at least not primarily.

This February 11, Seattle voters will decide whether to accept or reject a continuous funding plan for social housing. Two competing housing plans are on a ballot mailed out on January 22 and must be returned by election day.

Facts were sacred to Eric, and his writing was crystalline, twinkling with wit and erudition. It’s like living stone – it’s vital, and it lasts.

Happy golden anniversary, Hells Canyon National Recreation Area! Roll on, Snake River, roll on!