America’s debt problem is also a retirement problem | Allison Schrager
The Moody’s downgrade is an opportunity for an honest politician to level with the American people.
Syndicated Columnists
In addition to our staff columnists, The Seattle Times publishes a variety of syndicated columnists, representing a breadth of political thought and perspective. Below are recent syndicated columns published in The Times.
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Why not give a green card with every diploma? | Patricia Lopez
President Trump’s campaign to eject future scientists, engineers, mathematicians, medical researchers and others is misguided and has proved to be a failure.
How much power to stop the president should federal judges have? | Erwin Chemerinsky
This is not the time for the Supreme Court to greatly weaken the ability of the federal judiciary to stop illegal presidential acts.
My first thought when I heard Joe Biden’s news | Thomas L. Friedman
The former president has an unbreakable gut connection to how important America is to the world, one that I deeply share.
Democrats lied to themselves about Biden | Michelle Goldberg
Some sort of reckoning is due for the disastrous missteps that paved the way for Trump’s return.
The power blackout in Spain and Portugal wasn’t a fluke. It was the future | Opinion
In complex systems, disaster is not the exception; it’s the destination. More and more, disasters are emergent properties of the systems we’ve built.
Trump and Xi tone down a senseless trade war | Shuli Ren
The fact that there’s an agreement of this scale after just a weekend of face-to-face talks shows that both sides want an offramp.
One of Trump’s biggest foreign policy wins thus far | Daniel DePetris
The core issues dividing these two powers will continue to fester like a wound, which means another flare-up is likely months or years down the...
Karma comes for Kennedy | Michelle Goldberg
The rift within the Make America Healthy Again movement underscores the instability of a political coalition built on paranoia.