David Brewster

All these indicators, random as they are, suggest that Seattle has passed its "hot" moment and needs to discover a compelling new economic strategy.

In these sour times incumbents are fair game and voters look for someone to blame.

At times, the 1930s in this new history read like a lost decade, since many of the socialist and New Deal movements wane or over-reach.

My main suggestion is to steal some thunder from the Republicans and drifting voters by daring to embrace some populist ideas, rather than softening some core beliefs.

I suggest aspects of a shadow government and an emerging new politics, with these components.

On entering the store, the subconscious part of the customers' mind imagined that they were soon to be writing poems, reading Sartre, working on a novel, or doing mega-deals.

An era of excellence and national aspiration has evolved into an era of equity and broader access for the arts.

Many traditional Democratic constituents are restive, and the Trump revolution will drive more traditional conservatives away, so there are the makings of a new party appealing to the young, independents, and those disillusioned with both parties.

The leading politicians of those years are rendered as complex and articulate figures, so it is a good test of democracy's problem-solving aspects.

A friend of Ellis once told me that this civic paragon often started out with the wrong idea but then, by analysis and conferring with many others, got himself to the right position (often too late).