The president and his minions are doing everything they can to limit voting nationally. So far, they are failing “bigly.”

Protests are meant to be disruptive.

Politics, policy and public affairs as seen through the eyes of our political cartoonist.

Short takes, outtakes, our takes and other stuff you should know about public information, government accountability and ethical leadership in Hawai‘i.

Hawaiʻi taxpayers deserve an independent legal and financial review.

What a late congratulations card, a voyaging canoe and one 30-minute phone call taught me about Hawaiʻi’s future.

Addiction inherited a vocabulary that treats every person in it as permanently incomplete — relapsing, remitting, never quite arriving.

The real question is not whether discretion exists, but who exercises it, under what standards and with what consequences.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs exists to carry forward a collective trust and responsibility to the lāhui.

The public’s confidence and trust depend on the commission’s actions and must be beyond reproach for it to be attained.