Commentary

Comment: Trump has alread shown us who he is during a crisis

Whether a pandemic or a hurricane, Trump couldn’t resist lies and omissions, leading to further tragedy.

Comment: Efforts look to put Marysville schools on stable path

New interim leadership, its school board and the community can restore the school district’s finances.

Comment: Mass deportation not just cruel; it would be costly

Start with a low estimate of $315 billion in deportation costs, then add losses to taxes and the economy.

Comment: Past decision backs justices into corner on ghost guns

To rule gun kits as guns, the Supreme Court will have to abandon the textualism it used on bump stocks.

Comment: Why ‘Never Trump’ conservatives must vote for Harris

Even in ‘blue’ states, they don’t have the luxury of voting for a third-party candidate, as I did in 2016.

EDS.: RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT BYLINE METADATA TO CAITLIN OCHS — People celebrate at the annual New York City Pride March in Manhattan on Sunday, June 30, 2024. The upcoming presidential election and laws threatening the rights of the LGBTQ community motivated many Pride attendees. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times)

Comment: Where Trump, Harris tickets stand on LGBTQ issues

Rather than platforms, consider the candidates’ past actions on LGBTQ rights and restrictions.

EDS.: RETRANSMISSION TO CORRECT BYLINE METADATA TO CAITLIN OCHS — People celebrate at the annual New York City Pride March in Manhattan on Sunday, June 30, 2024. The upcoming presidential election and laws threatening the rights of the LGBTQ community motivated many Pride attendees. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times)

Comment: For kids and fairer tax code vote no on I-2109

At the expense of families, voting yes would repeal a tax paid by only the state’s wealthiest individuals.

Comment: A protein-folding UW professor shows promise of AI

A Nobel award has highlighted AI-assisted work that could aid the development and efficacy of drugs.

Comment: An economist’s hard-headed take on disaster relief

Sometimes state-run insurance encourages homeowners to rebuild where they really shouldn’t.

Comment: Nation’s flood insurance system is badly broken

Hurricane Helene may have caused $250 billion in losses. All but $15 billion of that is uninsured.

Comment: Netanyahu’s plan for peace has to start at home

If there’s no place in leadership for Hamas and Hezbollah, there’s no room for Israel’s nationalist fanatics.

Comment: New Jan. 6 brief against Trump still faces challenge

Special counsel Jack Smith attempts to follow the Supreme Court’s guidance, but it gets the last word.

Comment: Wider Israel-Iran war would devastate the Mideast

And the U.S. would almost certainly be pulled into the conflict as Israel seeks combat support.

A worker inspects a solar panel at the Qcells solar panel factory in Dalton, Ga. on Nov. 22, 2023. Thanks to the president’s signature legislation, solar energy manufacturing is booming in Georgia, a key state in the 2024 election. But the industry now worries that it could be too much and too fast. (Christian Monterrosa/The New York Times)

Comment: Harris, Trump on nation’s clean energy future

Harris would continue the transition; while Trump can slow but not halt its climate solutions.

A worker inspects a solar panel at the Qcells solar panel factory in Dalton, Ga. on Nov. 22, 2023. Thanks to the president’s signature legislation, solar energy manufacturing is booming in Georgia, a key state in the 2024 election. But the industry now worries that it could be too much and too fast. (Christian Monterrosa/The New York Times)

Comment: I-2117 imposes too high a cost on our health; vote no

The initiative, repealing the Climate Commitment Act, would degrade health and increase costs of care.

Comment: Message in a storm: There are no climate havens

Storms like Helene, with rains and destructive flooding, reached hundreds of miles inland.

Eco-nomics: The risks, costs we’re seeing now from climate change

The damage wrought by Hurricane Helene’s floods shows the price paid in losses and higher costs.

Comment: Quickening pace of clean energy growth is good news

If you need an example of technology’s advances, consider the microchip and its exponential improvements.

Comment: U.S. needs to rethink its ‘ironclad’ support of Israel

Such unconditional support, regardless of actions, led alliances of nations quickly into World War I.