November 25, 2008
It is difficult for me to express how profound a disappointment the passage of Proposition 8 is.

November 4, 2008
The term “change” has been bandied around a lot in this election; that is no insight.

October 21, 2008
With the financial crisis, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and consistent lack of an even halfway sufficient health care system, discussion of education has been, for the most part, left by the wayside.

October 7, 2008
As the financial system sinks further into fiasco and everyone compiles their blacklists of who they believe is to blame, it has become only more difficult to differentiate special interest from needed assistance.

September 30, 2008
Among the bevy of issues being discussed in the presidential election, the question of what to do with a nuclear Iran brings perhaps the most anxiety.

September 24, 2008
At the recent Republican National Convention, the chants of “drill, baby, drill” that erupted from the audience during former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s speech show both the nearsightedness and speciousness of John McCain’s plan to address the looming energy question in The United States.

August 5, 2008
Having spent the past week in the forests of the Cascades learning about the diverse and complex ecosystems of our nation’s woodlands, I am more convinced than ever of the duty we have to preserve these areas for generations to come.

July 22, 2008
As presidential candidates come under close media scrutiny, so do their wives. In fact, a recent Rasmussen poll found that 61 percent of Americans said that a candidate’s spouse played some role in their voting decision — a finding that seems understandable.

July 8, 2008
There’s little question that he’s running to the right in order to attract more moderate voters, but his opinions on recent issues make his sincerity — of both the past and present — doubtful.

June 25, 2008
The bill marks a regression in the maintenance of civil liberties.

June 23, 2008
The Bush administration has been pushing to resolve debate about an Iraq security pact by July 31, negotiating with members of the country’s parliament to replace the expiring U.N. mandate that provides a legal authorization of the U.S. occupation.

June 2, 2008
President George Bush and Sen.

May 19, 2008
It’s been a tedious number of months, and even the most enthused election nerds among us are starting to cry, “enough!” Indeed, I myself have even avoided writing about the race, thinking that, if I didn’t acknowledge it, the mindless, droning thing might just go away.

May 5, 2008
The recent surge in global food and oil prices has brought with it increases in social insecurity and political tension.

April 21, 2008
The fact that voter participation in this country is abysmally low has come to be accepted as ordinary.

April 7, 2008
Every year, Seattle residents go through 360 million disposable bags.

March 10, 2008
Iowa came and went.

February 25, 2008
Despite his “straight talk” speeches, Sen. John McCain, the frontrunner in the Republican race for the presidential nominee, has failed in reforming U.S. torture policy.

February 11, 2008
With Super Tuesday now behind us, 24 states have voiced their choice of party presidential nominees and the Democratic race is left decidedly inconclusive.

January 28, 2008
In the spectacle that was the South Carolinian Democratic primary last Saturday, Hillary Clinton suffered a particularly humbling defeat by her chief rival Barack Obama, even after vigorous campaigning by the New York senator.

January 7, 2008
Running the political gauntlet of state primaries is not easy.