The next few months will be a test of Canadian nationalism, the will to defy a bully, and the ability of the center-left Liberals to change heads in an election year.

Celebrate good news. Every morning ask Alexa how many airplanes landed safely at SeaTac yesterday.

A good beginning to a new year is what I will call ‘setting the table’ – clarifying expectations, resolutions and procedures. I want to...

Seattle continues to lose one-of-a-kind characters that would not have soared in more conventional cities.

Seeing Trump as what he is, an outlandish figure on the often wild and unpredictable landscape of American politis, may be our best move.

"We have to straighten out the press," Trump told a news conference at Mar a Lago. It came at the heels of a $15 million settlement with ABC News.

Carter sought to downplay the imperial presidency. Gone were the Ruritanian uniforms for White House guards. The new president walked blocks to the White House in his inaugural parade. Carter carried his own luggage onto Air Force One.

Go take a walk from Pike to shore, right where the viaduct’s no more, gaze out at ferries on the Sound.

Trump has also threatened to eliminate the federal department of education and to deport international students who participate in campus protests. Vice President-Elect JD Vance has identified colleges and universities as “the enemy.”

Katharine shaped The New Yorker, nurturing an astonishing array of literary talent. She edited a young John Updike, to whom she sent 17 rejections before his first acceptance.

From a Big Picture point of view, saying goodbye to 2024 seems more like good riddance. But for those of us who still enjoy wine, who believe that wine is a unique, life-affirming, earth-friendly, social enhancing asset to any creative lifestyle, it would be good to step away from the Neo-Pro noise and give 2024 a more personal evaluation.

In 17 bylined stories for the New York Times, Marion Swenson tells of her life in the twilight and darkness of Arctic winter.

And just as the Democrats have lost the working class, the non-college degreed, so too have liberal Protestants. That’s a big, but largely unacknowledged, factor in so-called “mainline decline.”

The amount of shipping through the Seattle harbor has slipped far behind Tacoma, which had been roughly equal in past years.

Recalling the author's youth “in the woods building tree forts,” he imagined building a cabin. In 2013, in his late 20s, he decided to act. He borrowed cash from his mom and bought a cabin listed on Craigslist for $7,500. 

Prior to the middle of last century, chain bookstores were rare. Some department stores, notably Marshall Field & Company of Chicago, created massive book departments. But in 1958, small independent bookstores sold about 72 percent of all books; by the early 2000s, that number had dropped to 12 percent.

An era of excellence and national aspiration has evolved into an era of equity and broader access for the arts.

My focus is on giving every wine I taste a good, long, repeated look – not piling up big numbers by zipping through dozens of wines at a time.

Surprisingly, enrollment in the humanities at UW, which includes such departments as English, Cinema and Media Studies, several languages, Linguistic studies, and Comparative History of Ideas, has remained steady for the past decade.

Canada's Liberal government copes with another blow: the shock resignation of Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.

Although rain-soaked Western Washington boasts the most impressive collection of tall trees, other regions are in the running.

The percent of the population today who are college graduates is 33%, which means that 67% — the large majority — are not. “A college diploma has replaced income as the new marker of social class and key dividing line in our elections.

The largest public college in the northwest, the University of Washington, tells a different story. If you look at UW’s Black enrollment over the last decade, you’d see that change has been slow, gradual, but ultimately positive. 

I think I can safely predict that the incoming Trump administration will not be supportive of new (or old) and meaningful initiatives for green power, even if many in Congress might be ready for change.

When our founders established The Rainier Club in 1888, Seattle was still taking shape.

Former Washington Post editor David Rowell begins his most recent book with a salient question: “Do we even want new music anymore?” For Rowell,...

To the extent my reporting career has focused on people left behind and the need to create new industries that nurture jobs and opportunities in rural America, our tiny little operation is meant to be an example of that.”

Jackson and Trump were/are leading a working-class movement to gain more power by dismantling government institutions.

An investigative team at Fortune published a bombshell: THE DEPARTMENT OF WASTE DOES NOT EXIST. Neither did the Departments of Fraud and Abuse, which have never existed.

The name Mazama is Spanish for mountain goat, a likely improvement to its first designation as Goat Creek.