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Trump Outrage Watch: Iran Edition — TACO Tuesday (and Wednesday) (and Thursday)…

Trump really does not want the war to continue because of the economic and political pain the US and he would suffer.

OpenAI Buys a Media Company: A Short History of the News Business

Have editorial decisions ever been free from external pressures?

Are Moderate Democrats Disappearing from the Eastside?

That moderate caucus is dwindling for a reason. The Trump era has emboldened progressives to pick off or push out more centrist members because, as Springer said, “the further left you are, the better you look” as a foil to President Trump.

Trump Class Coin: Dear Leader Everywhere

As our democracy celebrates its 250th birthday, Donald Trump is thrusting himself at us. Our new Gilded Age is taking on indisputable tackiness.

John Hinterberger: Passing of a Seattle Original

“Hint” as his comrades in newsprint knew him, penned opinions and restaurant reviews for a quarter of a century before finally retiring for a second time in the 1990s. On March 25, he died at 92 at his home in Kirkland.

Classic Blunder: Trump’s Historically Disastrous Iran War

Crassus has been called a fool in history for literally losing his head by invading Iran, which was then known as Parthia. We need to wait and see how historians will view Trump’s invasion.