(Editor’s note: This one is several months old, but people need a reminder sometimes.) Five obnoxious libertarian oligarchs who earned fortunes from the government they’d like to destroy The cult of the libertarian-minded ultra-wealthy would make an intriguing anthropological case study. But it would be a case study with a twist: its research subjects increasingly…

Op-Ed How the insurance industry sees climate change Twenty years ago, I interviewed Frank Nutter, then and now president of the Reinsurance Assn. of America, on the threat climate change posed to the $2-trillion-plus global property and casualty insurance industry. “It is clear,” he said back then, “that global warming could bankrupt the industry.” But in the two…

GOP: At sea in Bellevue without Rodney Tom? With Rodney Tom out of the running, the 48th Legislative District is gearing up for a good ol’-fashioned red-on-blue rumble.  That’s bad news for the Republicans in a district where they’ve suffered a 20-year bleed of support. Everything changed in the swing district with the announcement by incumbent Sen….

Why Democrats must take sides in the class war The waning of America’s middle class presents a huge challenge to the nation’s oldest political party. The Democrats’ ability to improve the economic lives of most Americans has been their primary calling card to the nation’s voters ever since Franklin Roosevelt became president. Since the 1940s, however, the…