Mao told his people that one had to smash everything to build anything new. He went ahead and dismantled China’s then government system, his version of a “deep state.”

My friend Kenneth Young, a University of Washington physicist now deceased, invited me in 1973 to join him for lunch at a U District...

For those of us old enough to remember the war in Vietnam, it’s eerie how familiar all this is. Then it was the left that wanted peace, and the right that denounced them as pinkos and commie lovers. Now the left denounces our right-wing president as a fascist and a Putin lover. The slander has changed sides.

“I wanted to write a novel about the rise of a city, that takes the full measure of a place.”

While the main media outlets focused on this brawl, they didn’t dive into the proposed document that Trump and Zelensky were to sign.

Carney came out swinging at Donald Trump and his tariffs, and linked opposition Conservative Party leader Pieter Polievre — often called the Trump of the north — to the American President. 

As the bill nears final action, all sides are accusing the others of bad faith and broken promises.

It’s accessible, fruit-driven, well-balanced and generally drinks well young. When grown properly and well made it can be both complex and user-friendly, and is a great transition wine from the big reds of winter into the lighter, more forward springtime wines.

Don't know that anyone has referred to Las Vegas as Baja Seattle. I choose to be the first. Its NFL team, the Raiders, which last...

The real reason for Trump’s over-reaction, missed by national press, is that Perkins Coie has helped elect Democrats in tight races.

Alice attended the University of Washington, which was then at the downtown site of the present Four Seasons-Olympic Hotel. She described her only year at the University as "lively."

The Liberal leadership shift has produced a dizzying swing in public opinion.

In 1976, Jonathan Evison was eight years old, newly relocated to Bainbridge Island, and a complete mess. That was the year that Evison’s father brought...

“One day you are a person of virtue and status who is saving the world, and the next, well, you’re almost a criminal."

If Democrats don’t hand him weaknesses he can exploit, Trump’s wholly-owned Republican Party should suffer significant losses in the 2026 mid-term election. Given how slavishly they support him, they’ll deserve it.

It’s not only that our government, which built it, gave it to them. In the past quarter-century, Panama has invested billions of dollars building modern locks at either end.

Some local tribal members were pushing for the removal of the totem poles. They wanted the poles, crafted in the style of Northern tribes like the Haida, replaced with more traditional Coast Salish art.

On the road or anywhere else, Tom was incurably blithe and lighthearted. It’s why he was so much fun to hang out with. It was also why some critics wrote him off. What the detractors of his style get wrong about his work is that wrote with a light touch about heavy things.

“As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom,” Starmer said, gesturing to a crowd cheering the Ukrainian leader. “We stand with you, with Ukraine, for as long as it may take.”

Alex Jensen opened the Burgermaster in 1952 as a drive-in, predating the University Village shopping center that it sits beside.

What remains a mystery is why Trump is so wedded to Putin, who may have "something on" Trump that he could reveal and precipitate his downfall..

It’s quite possible to make the argument that a great Pinot can age as well or better than a great Cabernet. From start to finish Pinot Noir can offer more subtle, complex and varied aromatics than sturdier, more tannic reds.

“If concerts offer nothing, then people will not attend,” Furtwangler wrote to Goebbels. “That is why quality is not just an ideal. It is vital.” It was a cultured, conservative German’s distaste of ruthless barbarians.

The sower of wind is reaping the whirlwind. The threat of Trump has unified Canadians of all stripes.

Liberalism, as practiced by the Democratic Party, recognizes that diverse groups can strengthen our democracy. However, liberalism, as an economic philosophy, emphasizes individuals’ right to control their property as they wish, aligning with conservative beliefs.

A thoughtful look at "red America" reveals a lot about why Donald Trump won in rural areas: a loss of jobs and pride chief among them.

Freddie deBoer is a cogent critic of recent ideological turns within blue city progressive culture.

The Louisiana Art Museum is, of course, confusing to Americans; they do not easily turn their mind to the notion that the museum is in Humlebæk.

The mages, projected onto an advent-calendar-like wall, recalled to me Terry Gilliam’s cut-out sequences for Monty Python’s Flying Circus at times, or German expressionist cinema at others, all overlaid with a healthy dose of Edward Gorey.

“Investing in passenger-only ferries can put boats back on the water faster and cheaper, taking lessons from our maritime history and heritage to build a more connected, healthier and prosperous future for all of us."