The Senate chamber is empty. The lights are dimmed, the desks are cleared, and most of the hundred men and women who work there have scattered back to their home states for the longest break on the congressional calendar. Thirty-seven…
The interview was supposed to be about Tennessee. About roads and schools, about the job Marsha Blackburn says she wants next, and about why a sitting United States senator would trade Washington for the governor’s office in Nashville. It didn’t…
Sunday mornings on cable news usually run on a script. A host asks. A guest answers in careful, lawyerly sentences. Nobody says anything that ends up on a million phone screens by dinnertime. That is not how this one went.…
The Sunday morning interview started the way most of them do. Polite. Measured. Two people in studio chairs, a camera light, the familiar rhythm of a political sit-down that viewers have seen a thousand times before. Then the anchor picked…
Sunday mornings in America usually belong to coffee, church bulletins and the slow start of a quiet day. But in living rooms across Texas this past Sunday, a lot of folks put the mug down and turned up the volume.…
Most court decisions in Washington State come and go without much notice. This one landed like a thunderclap. A judge has ruled that a proposed income tax initiative, filed under the designation PIID, may appear before voters on the November…
It started like any other segment on QVC. Bright lights. A tidy display counter. A friendly voice walking viewers through the difference between one hairstyle and another. Nobody watching had any reason to think this particular hour would end up…
For nearly two decades, one name has been attached to the biggest jail complex in the Midwest. Not a mayor. Not a governor. A sheriff. Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart has spent his career at the center of Chicago’s toughest…
It started with a sound that wasn’t there. A visiting American correspondent was working through an ordinary hotel breakfast in Ukraine — coffee, plates, the low hum of a dining room filling up. Then the hum stopped. Not gradually. All…
There was a stretch in the 1990s when Saturday nights in America came with a soundtrack of crashing waves and a lifeguard tower on the horizon. You knew the theme song. Your kids knew the theme song. Everybody had an…