Washington policy wonks have a legendary fondness for dealing in big dollars. When Bush’s Budget Director Mitch Daniels was questioned about the projected cost of the Iraq war, he estimated “i…

I think I finally understand what white privilege looks like.

When we attend a football game, a visual scan of the crowd can usually give us a clear idea of which side people are rooting for. The fans of the home team gather together wearing the same col…

Every year in September the Latah Human Rights Task Force celebrates Human Rights Day at Moscow’s Farmer’s Market. This year’s topic is “Education as a Human Right.”

The COVID-19 tragedy continues to unfold like a horror movie where you yell at the actors on the screen, “Don’t open that door!” Substitute, “Get the vaccine!” In this case, the vaccine is one…

The nation has a new COVID-19 vaccination expert: Nicki Manaj, the Trinidad-born American rapper and singer.

The date 9/11 is emotionally symbolic. Similarly, June 4 (in Chinese, liu/si) was the day in 1989 when the Chinese People’s Liberation Army opened fire on mostly unarmed students, estimated to…

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Occasionally, my partner will rescue various kinds of items abandoned on the sorting table at the post office. Or in the dental office. Or on the street. He brings the various odds and ends ho…

The failure of adults to take the safety of children seriously isn’t new. Pullman had its share of situations when I was growing up that weren’t really handled properly according to today’s st…

It must be hard to be a ruby red Republican these days, having to ignore the reality in front of one’s nose, then drink the most intellectually bilious Kool-Aid served in America. On a wide va…

In his book “American Lion,” a biography of President Andrew Jackson, author/historian Jon Meacham describes Jackson’s philosophy of governing as presidential primacy. The occupant of the offi…

It may not be the worst intersection in the world, but on school days between 7:40-8:20 a.m. and 3-3:20 p.m. the corner of D Street and Mountain View Road is easily the worst intersection in Moscow.

Last week, President Biden announced he is mandating all private-sector companies with more than 100 employees require their workforce to be vaccinated for COVID-19, or else be fired, tested w…

A convergence of three unsettling headlines appeared for my morning reading the day before the nation observed the 20-year commemoration of the tragic deaths of almost 3,000 Americans on Septe…

As I’m sure most of you know, today is the 20th anniversary of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. Twenty years later, we are in the final stages of withdrawal from Afghanistan, after…

There are occasions when I second-guess the wisdom of airing emotionally charged musings. This is particularly so when some of the arguments might embolden the racist hounds set loose by the Donald.

My nephew, Joe Day, of Layton, Utah, served two tours of duty as a sergeant in Afghanistan where he received the Bronze Star.

“We should have hit that country years ago,hit them really hard, and then let it rot.”

This summer, I experienced a very educational first – the only time I have ever been rained out of a backpacking trip. While I have been on a few drizzly trips, never before have I been soaked…

This summer, I experienced a very educational first – the only time I have ever been rained out of a backpacking trip. While I have been on a few drizzly trips, never before have I been soaked…

I confess … while the world is battling a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, last week my spouse and I used ivermectin. And in doing so, we blithely contributed to the decline in the supply…

Fire in the West is expected, and not so long ago, it seemed something the West experienced more than anywhere else. Nationally, big fires were treated as another freak of Western violence, li…

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means,” says Inigo Montoya after Vizzini repeatedly mutters “inconceivable!” as events unfold in “The Princess Bride.” It’s…

We see it in the news every summer: tourists who don’t think the rules apply to them. Every summer, in our national parks, without fail, some poor sap seeking to commune with nature, will appr…

Suppose you and your friends play a board game every Friday night. It is a great way to pass the time and have some fun and laughs. But inside of the fun and laughs there is also the competiti…

Pullman’s water table is sinking. This is not new news. Pullman’s population is growing rapidly and we are going to be hard-pressed to keep up the needed level of goods and services if we are …

This summer, three of us were hiking in Alaska’s western Brooks Range when we encountered a pack of eight wolves. We were far from any help when they moved toward us, paused, and then disappea…

A team of faculty from the School of Design of Construction at Washington State University is exploring design ideas with students for that swath of land between the old steam plant at the bot…

Recently I took one of my children to the local pediatric dentist to have a cavity filled.

John Adams wrote, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious [Christian] people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” It is an exercise in futility to try an…