David Brewster

David Brewster, a founding member of Post Alley, has a long career in publishing, having founded Seattle Weekly, Sasquatch Books, and Crosscut.com. His civic ventures have been Town Hall Seattle and FolioSeattle.

Political Comedy, Ukraine-Style

Ukraine's new president, Volodymyr Zelensky seems well cast in the farce that has become Trump's Last Days.

Thoughts from the Peanut Gallery After a Night at the Seattle Symphony

The suggestion from Pittsburgh is not to keep trying to sell season tickets and individual tickets at the usual high prices ($50-$120), but instead to adopt the museum model.

Poll History: The Dangers of Reviving the Kavanaugh Issue

As the Christine Blassey Ford testimony and Kavanaugh's indignant response riveted voters' attention, the swing to the Republican Rossi was huge, 57-33, according to Elway.

The Seattle Library That Might Have Been

Steven Holl was almost the architect of Seattle's Central Library, where he was the runner-up to Rem Koolhaas.

Seattle Elections: Has the “Movement Left” Reached Its Half-Life?

Interest groups have a half-life of about 30 years in the fluid, non-partisan world of Seattle politics.

Impure Thoughts: Nukes Versus Climate Change?

Rather than purity tests, David Roberts argues, better to have complex answers to the separated problems.

Bye Bye, Coffee Bean: No More Howard Schultz to Kick Around

He's got a bad back, and he seems to have grasped the obvious point that his candidacy might well re-elect Trump.

Town Hall Seattle Reopens After a Grand Renovation

Town Hall evolved organically from its early days, when maps didn't exist, to the beloved and grand institution of today. Who would've thunk it? Certainly not me!

Is Mike Pompeo Another Creature of Koch?

Turns out Pompeo was closely tied to Koch, which invested in his botched aviation-parts business and launched his Kansas political career.

The Inslee Era and Washington’s Apostolic Succession

You have to admire the symmetry here. Inslee runs for president in order to run for governor. And then he sorta-runs for governor in order to ease the way for his successor. Ain't democracy grand??

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