The Cuban ER doctor’s long-shot Senate bid in Washington State
Dr. Raul Garcia seems to follow a long Republican tradition in Washington State. He’s a fifty-three-year-old, Cuban-born ER physician who’s…
Biden and Nixon: presidential history is repeating itself
One of the advantages of not having been born yesterday is the ability to recognize certain trends of the news…
Was JFK any ‘good’ as a president?
How should we assess the value of a US president? In the case of John F. Kennedy, who died sixty…
The Queen’s sole mistake
It’s often been said that the late Queen Elizabeth II rarely if ever put a foot wrong during her 70-year…
Danny Bonaduce’s guide to survival
It’s just after nine on a gray Pacific Northwest morning, and Danny Bonaduce, the once winsome redheaded child star of…
John F. Kennedy’s trip worth remembering
Sloppy Joe Biden may face strong political headwinds with just seven months to go before the first presidential primary, but at least he’s…
The waste disposal racket
The conceit that today’s US householder has never been better served, nor had more choices, has been put about for…
Watching baseball as Seattle crumbles
It’s a better thing to travel hopefully than to arrive, Robert Louis Stevenson wrote back in 1881. I find myself…
How Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle invented the modern celebrity feud
1922 saw its fair share of shocks in the literary world, among them the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses, Sinclair…
Patty Murray makes an anguished face
Seattle Some strange things have been happening here in the Pacific Northwest. We’ve had a freakishly warm and dry October,…
How the British helped JFK navigate the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Atlantic alliance hasn’t always been quite as special as politicians on both sides of the sea like to pretend.…
Stop enabling the crisis junkies
Did you make good use of the neatly palindromic 2/22/22? To refresh your memory, it was a day that turned…
Nick Kristof and a tale of two Oregons
It’s a strange thing about the long-serving New York Times opinion writer Nick Kristof, who apparently now wants to be governor of Oregon. The…
Elvis and Nixon, the odd couple
If you were called upon to invent the human antithesis of rock and roll, you couldn’t do better than our nation’s 37th president,…
Washington State is a worrisome window into the future
Seattle I have seen the future, and it looks much like Washington State. But let’s get there by steps. The…
Richard Nixon took the high road in 1960. Donald Trump should now
‘You gotta swallow this one, they stole it fair and square.’ That’s a Republican hack speaking to Richard Nixon, as…
Bad Kshama: meet Seattle’s worst socialist
Seattle In Max Frisch’s 1953 absurdist play The Fire Raisers, a well-off family in an unnamed town invites a man…
Delivering the goods?
Seattle My local post office in suburban Seattle seems to be rigged to obstruct customers these days. After standing motionless…
Does Seattle deserve better than Carmen Best?
Seattle So the revolution devours its children. On Tuesday, Seattle’s police chief Carmen Best announced her retirement just hours after…
Tear gas Ted: the mayor manning Portland’s barricades
The mayor manning Portland’s barricades
Tear gas Ted: the mayor manning Portland’s barricades
The federal courthouse in downtown Portland has become ground-zero for the nightly orgy of assaults, looting, arson, and public nudity…
Hell in Portland
Portland has had one of the most turbulent histories of any town in America. At the time of the Great…
What’s it like in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone?
Seattle Ah, Seattle, that environmentally obsessed city where all is decorous, the sidewalks immaculately swept, the parks rigorously trimmed, proverbial…
