Civil Disagreement is an occasional feature of the Seattle Times editorial board. Here Bruce Ramsey and Lynne K. Varner offer dramatically different takes on the federal budget battle and the ...

"True civility is not the absence of disagreement, but the presence of respect while it unfolds." Thank you, Kegley Institute of Ethics, for taking the local lead on a desperately needed program on ...

My inbox is filled with reactions to the columns I write and what I say on the airwaves. Some agree with me, and others, well, they wish my children didn’t have me as their father and primary ...