Jon Bauer

Everett

Editorial Page Editor at The Everett Daily Herald

Journalist and editorial page editor for The Herald (Everett, Wash).

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Articles

Live Shots: Dark whimsy and baroque frivolity at 2025 Edwardian Ball

2 months ago | 48hills.org | Jon Bauer |Patty Riek

The 2025 Edwardian Ball on Friday, January 31, was a celebration of dark whimsy and baroque frivolity. Arriving in the Regency Ballroom rotunda, guests were greeted by the “concierge” on duty—a rotating cast of Edward Gorey characters and other performers. The Speakeasy Syndicate had his signature “old timey-wimey, big band, floor-slappin’ music” drifting out of the grand ballroom luring attendees into the fun.
Harrop: Democrats have a winning issue: drug prices

2 months ago | heraldnet.com | Jon Bauer

By Froma Harrop / Creators.comDonald Trump is executing a shock-and-awe strategy, burying the public in a smoky cloud of flamboyant proposals. Some, like ending birthright citizenship, are quickly slapped down in the courts. Some, like threatening to invade Greenland, are dismissed as moronic. But all are radical enough to provide news media with easy entertainment.
Editorial cartoons for Monday, Feb. 3

2 months ago | heraldnet.com | Jon Bauer

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Comment: Trump, GOP may regret pardons of Jan. 6 rioters

2 months ago | heraldnet.com | Jon Bauer

By Mark Z. Barabak / Los Angeles TimesPolitics often entails angles and illusion, dodges and diversions. Navigating the space between hope and reality is one of its requisite skills. But sometimes events demand a straightforward response. To wit:Do you think it’s OK to attack a police officer by plunging a stun gun multiple times into his neck? How about using a riot shield to smash a police officer into a metal door frame, leaving him bruised and bloodied?
Saunders: First White House press briefing boring, except …

2 months ago | heraldnet.com | Jon Bauer

By Debra J. Saunders / Las Vegas Review-JournalThe first daily press briefing of President Trump 2.0 was not what many predicted last year. Before Trump re-took the White House, there had been speculation that Trump World would eject the daily press briefings from the James S. Brady briefing room with its 49 seats and standing room in the aisles. That didn’t happen.
Brooks: A field guide to the six principles of stupidity

2 months ago | heraldnet.com | Jon Bauer

By David Brooks / The New York TimesThis was the week in which the Chinese made incredible gains in artificial intelligence and the Americans made incredible gains in human stupidity. I’m sorry, but I look at the Trump administration’s behavior over the last two weeks and the only word that accurately describes it is: stupid. I am not saying the members of the Trump administration are not intelligent. We all know high-IQ people who behave in a way that’s as dumb as rocks.
Blow: Don’t waste time feeling stunned and wounded, liberals

2 months ago | heraldnet.com | Jon Bauer

By Charles M. Blow / The New York TimesThe first week of President Donald Trump’s return to power was a flurry of provocations, of attacks on the rule of law and raw exertions of power. Part of the point, it seemed, was to bury his opposition in the blizzard, to rapidly follow each assault with another, often greater, affront to democratic norms. The effect was that many people, including many politicians, were left too stunned and disoriented to begin forming a cogent opposition.
Oppose book bans, stand for freedom to read

2 months ago | heraldnet.com | Jon Bauer

On Jan. 24, 2025, the Department of Education dismissed complaints against book banning made by students, parents, and educators, with a press release titled “U.S. Department of Education ends Biden’s book ban hoax.” Under Trump, the Department of Education is gaslighting us. Book bans are real. According to PEN America, during the 2023-24 school year, over 10,000 books were banned or challenged across the country.
Comment: Health science on trial at Senate hearing

2 months ago | heraldnet.com | Jon Bauer

By Dominik Stecuła, Kristin Lunz Trujillo and Matt Motta / For The ConversationThe many controversial people appointed to the Trump administration, from Elon Musk to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have at least one thing in common: They dislike and distrust experts. While anti-intellectualism and populism are nothing new in American life, there has hardly been an administration as seemingly committed to these worldviews.
Honor Martin Luther King Jr. by speaking up for community

2 months ago | heraldnet.com | Jon Bauer

Thanks for the thoughtful editorial that asks us to consider what will we do in the current situation we find our country in, keeping in mind Dr. King’s work and what to do now (“What would MLK Jr. do? What, now, will we do?” The Herald, Jan. 18). A question for all to ponder, and take action in a way that would make Dr. King smile. Connecting with our members of Congress is one way to open a dialogue to work together.