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Trading on human rights
How Congress maneuvers Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) with Russia has become a barometer of public values. Can…
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For the humble moon man
He made the solar system a little smaller when, on July 20, 1969, he brought the moon to…
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Sloshy seas ahead, captain
We’re lucky, among other reasons, to be able to cling to the last of these summer days, soft…
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Not all innovation online
Successful businesses either provide needed goods and services, and/or convince consumers that they need something that they didn’t…
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Imagine the fire next time
The politics of forest ecology sounds as nonsensical as the civics of biology. Ecology is science and politics…
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A new metric for Congress
The ill-regarded practice of “teaching to the test” has a political corollary, jawing to win. The means-to-ends’ mindset…
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Whatever floats your boat
In your work, is it possible to “pitch a perfect game”? Or is that one of the reasons…
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From many voices, one
As mom and Shakespeare observed, guard against too much of a good thing.
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Hate-music and a shooting
One aspect of the horrific shooting that took place earlier this month in Wisconsin, leaving seven dead and…
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Questions in a judicial race
Last Tuesday’s primary election, a low-turnout profile in voter indifference, pulled back the curtain on voter choice. When…
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Fastest thumb in the West
The mythic wild West, once filled with Billy the Kids and Quick Draw McGraws, now has a new…
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Obama needs to act, now
An irony of public life is the handful of macro issues (national security, primary education, preserving our natural…
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Reforming how we vote
Some practices, like muscle memory, are so hard-wired that change is unimaginable. That’s why enlightened electoral reform —…
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Fight bigotry, complacency
Nothing challenges the dignity and rights of all Americans more than the intersection of bigotry and violence. The…
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Where are all the voters?
If voting is a democratic sacrament, Snohomish County (and, by extension, most of Washington) is burdened with an…
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Let phone games begin
A badminton scandal tarnishing the Olympics? Who would have guessed? It wasn’t even on the radar of English…