I’m bleary-eyed as I write this. Late last night, I finished several weeks of binge-watching “The West Wing,” all 156 episodes of the nostalgic political series which ran on television for seven seasons between 1999 and 2006, dramatizing the … Read more
Since 2015, Michael Kruse of Politico has written hundreds of thousands of words about Donald J. Trump, plumbing the President’s unorthodox campaign tactics, his dubious finances, his penchant for lawsuits, his biography and his psyche. In the process, … Read more
So much depends upon a stuffed Mickey Mouse lying in the debris of a bombed-out building. In a weekend post on The New York Times site, Opinionator Errol Morris takes on distinctions between art, journalism and propaganda in “ … Read more
By Trevor Pyle Thomas Curwen is one of those newspaper veterans who has done it all. During his 40-year career at the Los Angeles Times, he’s served as an outdoors editor, a Book Review editor and a features editor. Read more
By Trevor Pyle When Ruby Cramer of The Washington Post drove up to Norfolk, Mass., it was in pursuit of a story that couldn’t be more timely — or timeless. Cramer had seen local news reports about the … Read more
By Dale Keiger I once estimated how many bylined pieces I’ve published in my five decades of scribbling for money. Including everything from 300-word bleats to 8,000-word slabs, I believe I’ve written somewhere around 3,000 stories. Now imagine how … Read more
By Laurie Hertzel Tom Whipple’s recent story in the Times of London about the reappearance of beavers in Devon, England, could have been a deeply serious science piece, laden with facts, numbers and jargon, except for the … Read more
By Joanne Sasvari Two years ago, my husband and I fulfilled a longtime dream when we bought a small fixer-upper in the lovely city of Victoria, British Columbia. It’s not a particularly handsome house — just a boxy 1940s … Read more
By Mallary Tenore Tarpley As a first-time author, I’ve spent the past four years writing and reporting my debut nonfiction book, “SLIP: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery.” It’s been such a long labor of love that … Read more
By Mallary Tenore Tarpley Seattle Times intern Xavier Martinez grew up mountain biking on the eastern slopes of Washington’s Cascades mountain range and remembers being “terrified” of encountering a cougar. Though he knew cougar attacks were rare, he rode … Read more
