November 5, 2009Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid surprised political observers everywhere with his announcement that the Senate’s health-reform bill would include a public-insurance option.
October 1, 2009As UW students flock back to school this week, their representatives in Congress will have recently flocked back to their D.C.
May 20, 2009Last week, Gov. Chris Gregoire became the first governor in the nation to use taxpayer money to prop up her state’s failing newspaper industry.
May 6, 2009On April 21, an extremely rare event occurred: Dick Cheney emerged from the shadows.
April 28, 2009Let’s first get the facts.
April 22, 2009One of the greatest things about Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 election was the unprecedented “grass-roots” nature of his campaign.
March 3, 2009While UW student lobbyists have been hard at work in Olympia fighting for every last penny of the state’s dwindling revenue, Washington’s budget forecasts have grown increasingly bleak.
February 6, 2009I’m sure we all remember it like it was yesterday.
February 3, 2009“Barack Obama plans to stimulate the economy with money for condoms!” This has been the rallying cry of the onslaught of Republican lawmakers who have taken their case against Obama’s stimulus package to the airwaves in the last several days.
January 6, 2009If the United States and Israel hope to ever truly come up with a successful strategy for fighting extreme militarism and threats to their security, they need bigger imaginations.
