International protesters spice up WTO protests.
Four statewide ballot measures apparently have qualified for November: a clean- energy measure (Initiative 937), repeal of the estate tax…
A gifted writer takes us into a locked, forgotten world: Washington’s prisons.
Interviewing Helen Thomas is sort of like preparing dinner for a world-renowned chef. It’s a tad intimidating. It’s hard to…
For most progressives, this presidential election is not a choice between Al Gore and George W. Bush. It is a…
Calls for Mayor Paul Schell to resign or otherwise run away from office will have to wait for the next…
He’s gotten virtually no national media attention, but there is a progressive candidate other than Ralph Nader running for president….
Terrorism drills in Chicago (pneumonic plague) and Seattle (dirty bomb).
Where and how to mount the barricades.
Are shippers trying to bust the union? If they are, their timing couldn’t be better.
I have a three-word response to the media frenzy that followed revelation of the long-secret identity of Deep Throat: Downing…
On June 10, during the same week that John Ashcroft was busy in D.C. declaring to Congress that the president…
(as told to its residents after the fact) Light rail is coming. And in the smoke-free, paradigm-filled backrooms of Seattle’s…
Since World War II, nation-states, rebel groups, and terrorists alike have routinely killed large numbers of innocent civilians as a…
Timber barons, locked in a secret room far away from the probing eye of democracy, are dividing up what’s left…
Face it. We need a full-time Legislature.
When I walked into the room at 6am and saw the answering machine’s blinking light, I knew who it was…
THE UPCOMING MAY 16 execution of Timothy McVeigh promises to be one of the most repulsive, sickening media spectacles in…
The editorialists at Seattle’s dailies are all atwitter over recommendations, issued last week by a coalition of Seattle business community…
As regular readers of this column may be aware, I am not a chief strategist for the state Republican party….
