Sandeep Kaushik

“Two Cities, One Industry: Big Tech, Power, and Politics in Seattle and San Francisco” A co-production of the Blue City Blues and GeekWire podcasts National Nordic Museum Tuesday, Sept. 29 6-7:30 pm

What happened in the Seattle Public Schools stands as a cautionary tale of how good progressive intentions can go terribly wrong, and as a microcosm of how the national turn in some of the country’s most educated and economically successful blue jurisdictions over the last decade away from a focus on accountability and academic achievement in schools has turned into an extended exercise in self-sabotage.

Disaffected Dem Voters Are Taking Platner Seriously, Not Literally

The Windy City is not just a great American city – the third largest in the United States – it is a world class city, recognized globally as a center of finance, trade and economic dynamism, and as a cultural and tourist mecca. But…

To listen to the author in conversation with Gluesenkamp Perez, go to Blue City Blues, S1, episode 19: “Marie Gluesenkamp Perez on What Urbanites Get Wrong about Rural America” The...

Overall, this whole exercise proved to be a vindication of what the so called "double haters" believe: this matchup is a disaster for the country. 

In the mid-‘70s, there were more than 50 bombings per year in the US; globally, there was an airline hijacking or bombing about once a month(!).

Eight clowns entered and eight clowns exited two hours later. In the interim, there were stretches of boredom punctuated by regular descents into the hyperpolarized subterranean crazy (where so many Republicans live in these MAGA days), and by a few sharp, revealing, and somewhat entertaining exchanges.

The outcomes of the primary races mostly played out as expected. The basic pattern of Seattle municipal politics has held: each race advanced has one finalist rooted more in the left lane, and the other in the more moderate lane.

Because I genuinely believe that collecting art will enrich your life, whatever your circumstances, and because I’m getting paid to write this, I am going to convince you that it’s cool to buy and collect art.