Living through the darkest days and longest nights | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
As a lesson in our coming catastrophe — a season which could be “the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation”...
Barack and Michelle: Scenes from a marriage | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
Long after people stop wondering how the Affordable Care Act came to be, they’ll likely be reading the Obamas as a marriage tutorial. Though he...
American democracy survives its brush with death | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
Yes, it’s karmic justice that three of the states pivotal in electing Trump — Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan — now look like three that will...
I’ve never seen the American West in such deep distress | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
Like much of the country, we Westerners are at each other’s throats, struggling to put our lives back together under a madman for a president....
My quarantine house holds three generations | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
Somehow, in a blip of conformity during the 1950s, the multigenerational family came to be stigmatized.
Bill Gates is the most interesting man in the world | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
“It tires me to talk to rich men,” said Teddy Roosevelt, himself a product of wealth. “You expect a man of millions, the head of...
I wasted my vote in a state that finally matters | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
My experience is shared by millions of people, especially in California, who voted before the landscape shifted sharply. In essence, we are disenfranchised by our...
The American experiment is not dead | Timothy Egan / Syndicated columnist
The big story of the American experiment, a nation that is not an ethnic, racial or religious state but an idea, is not dead. It’s...