Ted Van Dyk has been active in national policy and politics since 1961, serving in the White House and State Department and as policy director of several Democratic presidential campaigns. He is auth
The financial crisis will have wide-ranging implications for our economy and an immediate impact on the November election, as it rises to Topic One in the coming debates. Neither presidential nor vice presidential candidates on either side seem up to the task.
The falls of Washington Mutual and Lehman Brothers and all the rest are comeuppances that, with any luck, won't trigger economic catastrophe. But it's going to be a rough go for a while.
Rounding up the news about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Washington Mutual, the Boeing strike, and other issues related to your wallet.
Between national party conventions, I took an advance look at Joseph Miller's upcoming memoirs, The Wicked Wine of Democracy, to be published next month by University of Washington Press. The book provides an almost too-candid portrayal of politics and lobbying in the Northwest and nationally over 5
A veteran political insider remembers good statesmen of the past and shares his choices for today's primary.
