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.

A Better Way to Run Seattle Elections?

We aren't getting better-quality candidates. The coming city council is likely to have five of nine rookies. Everyone runs with 50 shades of blue, contrary to the hopes of the conservatives who pushed through this reform. Voters tune out.

Overtime Pay: Seattle Arts Groups On The Defensive

The arts groups are badly on the defensive. They are caught by their own shifts to social justice causes, particularly in the age of Trump.

The Decline and Fall of the American Republic

Andrew Sullivan has written a long essay examining the harm Trump has done to this country. He finds the best parallel in the collapse of the Roman Republic.

A Pendulum Election for Seattle

It doesn't surprise me that the Seattle center-left candidates gained ground against the movement left in this week's primary.

Marvelous Marrowstone Revisited

All in all, an impressive encounter with what a small city can do, and how a Seattle arts organization can quietly move, with decades of commitment, to the front ranks.

Get a Grip! It’s Crucial To Get First Things First

There has to be a better way to understand these candidates than tossing them, one by one, off the island.

A good/bad night for Warren

Elizabeth Warren, like Bernie Sanders, spent the evening putting herself on a distant island and pulling up the piers.

Mueller Agonistes

The more Mueller faltered, the more I saw him as a living symbol, doddering into despair, of what has happened to the Old Republic he embodied.

Impeachment, Plan B

Granted, having Congress try (and likely fail) to impeach Trump is a high enough risk to make this option largely hypothetical, and maybe politically suicidal. So what about another...

Sawant’s ricochet problem

As the civil war among Congressional Democrats heats up and comes to define Democratic politics, the case will be made that AOC & Co. could help define the Democrats...

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