Joel Connelly

An historic Atlanta House election pitted glamorous civil rights figure Julian Bond against movement workhorse John Lewis. Lewis was the surprise victor and served productively in Congress for nearly four decades. The tight 2025 contest for King County Executive offers striking parallels. Girmay Zahilay is a rising star who roused the recent No Kings rally at

Tthe Trump Administration is embarked on a tawdry stewardship of National Forest lands.

“After decades of design, engineering and construction, Hanford workers are finally beginning to immobilize millions of gallons of toxic waste into glass.”

The progressive voices of Catholicism have taken heart at words from Dilexi Te, Leo’s first teaching document: “In a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people.”

Harris has always been difficult to pin down on policy. She’s had one foot in the party’s moderate ranks — a self-described “tough prosecutor” — the other foot being that of a Berkeley-bred progressive.