Trump’s ‘emergency’ plunges the nation into peril | Greg Sargent / Syndicated columnist
What's at stake in this battle is a simple dilemma: Can the president declare a national emergency, and appropriate all the powers that this confers...
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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How China brings us together | David Brooks / Syndicated columnist
We used to think China would democratize. Wrong. We used to think the regime would liberalize. Wrong. We used to think the Chinese people would...
Woe to the 2020 Democrat who isn’t dogmatic enough | Ramesh Ponnuru / Syndicated columnist
Encouraging education reforms, occasionally siding with Republicans, keeping the government open, maintaining ethical standards, standing for religious tolerance: All of these seem to be black...
Navigating the male-female work relationship | Nicholas D. Kristof / Syndicated columnist
Sure, there are risks of misunderstandings — women navigate this turf every day — but common sense can usually mitigate them, and gender separation won’t...
Ridicule, the death of a culture | Leonard Pitts Jr. / Syndicated columnist
President Donald Trump has made arrogant disregard for the passages and lives of people other than white ones OK again. This is the true state...
How the left embraced elitism and total government control | David Brooks / Syndicated columnist
In an alienated America, efforts to decentralize power are more effective and realistic than efforts to concentrate it in the Washington elite. The great paradox...
Debt and double standards | Paul Krugman / Syndicated columnist
You don’t have to agree with everything in the Green New Deal to acknowledge that it’s very much an investment program, not a mere giveaway....
Here’s the right lesson liberals should learn from Scandinavian ‘socialism’ | Max Boot / Syndicated columnist
A Scandinavian-style social welfare state requires a massive tax hike on the middle class. It can't be done simply by raising marginal tax rates on...
One cheer for the Green New Deal | Ross Douthat / Syndicated columnist
The desire not to be a decadent society is a healthy one, and in that sense the Green New Deal deserves credit for looking at...
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