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Foiled Again!
Editor’s note: The following e-mail was intercepted by a National Security Agency data-mining program. After a delay of…
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The dead of Iraq
As the impeachment process staggered on, one of the cruelest ironies was that there have been so many…
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All our children
As this year’s money-starved state legislative session winds down, the serious ammunition is being pulled out in an…
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Is That All There Is?
The buzz surrounding the 9/11 commission’s final report will fade, and then we are left with—what, exactly? Considering…
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Blue line in the sand
LAST WEEK, in a vote that meant nothing and everything for policing in Seattle, the Seattle Police Officers…
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Eyman’s Good Idea
Tim Eyman, the initiative guru liberals love to hate, is back. After a lackluster 2004, during which he…
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Warm Globally, Act Locally
Last week was Global Warming Week in Seattle. On Friday, March 27, former Vice President Al Gore was…
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Peace trouble
The overt military phase of the War on Terrorism has begun. And so, too, have the demonstrations, both…
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Ace in the Hole
HOWARD DEAN WAS right, and his Democratic presidential opponents were crassly wrong for criticizing him, when he said…
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A dozen rays of hope
MEMBERS OF THE media (me included) are most often caught up in what’s wrong with the world and…
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Unnatural Disasters
The Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami in South Asia and Africa is a particularly nasty example of how…
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Cheap housing or the symphony?
An interesting battle is shaping up this summer in the Seattle City Council over a pot of money…
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A Democracy Worth Reclaiming
An interview with former ambassador to Iraq Joseph Wilson. He's down on our foreign policy but upbeat about…
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Two down, 10,000 to go
If you want a fat-laden, rain forest-chomping McBurger, you still won’t be able to get it in the…
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Bad neighbors
Neighbors busted on Wright Runstad's construction site at Amazon.com's headquarters.
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Chomsky Holds Forth
For more than 40 years, MIT professor Noam Chomsky has been one of the world’s leading intellectual critics…
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We lost a queen
Anci Koppel would have objected to being compared with royalty. She didn’t have a nonegalitarian bone in her…
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On the Brink of Civil War
Last year at Thanksgiving, candidate/President George W. Bush scored a PR coup by making a surprise, unannounced visit…
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Interviewing John
FOR NEARLY THREE weeks now, I’ve been trying, unsuccessfully, to have U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft stop by…
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Mayor’s race 2005
THE CITIZENS OF the city of Seattle and its civic elite have a fundamental ideological disconnect, and this…