Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of…
Around 9 a.m., a helicopter began circling overhead. Moments later, as Jonathan Blitzer wrote recently in the New Yorker, a…
U.S. Rep. Lou Barletta, a Republican who hails from northeastern Pennsylvania’s coal country, likes to brag about the fact he…
Three disparate events within a week’s time captured the world’s attention and provided a fresh take on how we regard…
OLYMPIA — Gun rights activists and their legislative allies may have messed up again in their political calculations in Washington.
We, in America, have been living in alternate states of reality for quite some time. They are neither red or…
Our republic is under stress. So much so, in fact, that if you’re not worried about its future, you probably…
With the president spending the week in Mar-a-Lago, editorial cartoonists around the world got a bit of a breather during…
The followers of Donald Trump are many things. Loyal, rabid, focused, committed, single-minded, self-righteous, rabid and oblivious. And rabid. Many…
According to NBC News, the majority of the Washington, D.C. council as well as the mayor and the “Washington Post”…
Leslie Schneider has been appointed to the Bainbridge Island City Council.
Need a break from Trump? Come with me to Missouri.
In the summer of 2016 I wrote a song titled “Not This Time,” about an unnamed demagogue seeking power in…