TIM SULLIVAN | The Seattle Times

May 10, 2023 at 9:33 pm

Figuring out Texas: From guns to immigration, here’s how one state’s challenges echo the country’s VIEW

Thirteen people dead in two mass shootings.

This undated photo provided by Ben Crump Law on Monday, April 17, 2023, shows Ralph Yarl, the teenager shot by a homeowner in Kansas City, Mo. (Ben Crump Law via AP) NYPS311 NYPS311

April 20, 2023 at 9:03 am

Distrust in America: Small mistakes, deep fear — and gunfire VIEW

In a nation where strangers are often mistrusted and fear has been politicized, honest mistakes like going to the wrong address can seem like a...

April 16, 2023 at 5:08 am

In Tennessee, expulsions echo a decades-old protest movement VIEW

In barely two weeks, two young Black Tennessee state legislators have gone from neophyte politicians to national prominence.

January 29, 2023 at 6:33 am

‘Don’t be numb to this’: Battling despair over gun deaths VIEW

Increasingly it feels like America is at war with itself.

November 29, 2022 at 9:20 pm

No longer the fringe: Small-town voters fear for America VIEW

In a picturesque corner of western Wisconsin, a growing right-wing conservative movement has rocketed to prominence.

February 19, 2022 at 9:00 pm

Canada’s protests settle down, but could echo in politics VIEW

Canada's trucker protest, which grew until it closed a handful of Canada-U.S. border posts and shut down key parts of the capital city for weeks,...

Nation & World

February 4, 2022 at 8:17 pm

In Beijing, Olympic ideals coexist with authoritarian rule VIEW

Thomas Bach, the head of the International Olympic Committee, says the Olympic ideals show that even in a world full of conflict, people can build...

Reed Anfinson, right, who is often tagged as the liberal publisher of the The Swift County Monitor-News, meets up at a bar with John Zosel, from left, Mick Abner and Bill Harrison, part of a weekly gathering made up of mostly Republicans, in Benson, Minn., Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021. It can be easy, looking around Benson, to think it is a land that time forgot. Bartenders often greet customers by name. The townâ€™s cafes feel like high school lunchrooms, with people wandering between tables to say hello. (AP Photo/David Goldman) MNDG258 MNDG258

January 27, 2022 at 6:01 am

In one small prairie town, two warring visions of America VIEW

America's right/left political divide is strongly felt in the farm towns of western Minnesota, where many believe COVID vaccines are more deadly than the disease...

Business

November 23, 2021 at 7:17 am

‘Mama, are you OK?’ In Waukesha, minutes of terror recounted VIEW

Participants like the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies were in the holiday spirit as they stepped off for the Waukesha Christmas Parade.

November 22, 2021 at 3:18 pm

Milwaukee’s ‘Dancing Grannies’ devastated by parade crash

In the devastation wrought by an SUV driver plowing into a suburban Milwaukee Christmas parade, no group was hit harder than the Dancing Grannies.