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Hillbilly Vance’s “Chinese Peasant” Problem

International Wendy Liu - May 5, 2025 0

Vance should know that it was not the “Chinese peasants” who stole jobs from the Americans; rather, it was American companies that placed orders of their products with Chinese manufacturers.

Histories

The Donut King of First & Pike

Brad Holden - May 4, 2025 1

Religion

Father Ryan Announces Retirement as Pastor of St. James Cathedral

Joel Connelly - May 3, 2025 3

International

On a 50th Anniversary, Remembering Saigon its Echoes in Ukraine

Bruce Ramsey - May 3, 2025 10

Reflections

Does the “Abundance Agenda’ Make Sense for an Age of Radical Doubt?

Anthony B. Robinson - May 2, 2025 3

Politics

Olympia Report: This Year’s Winners at the Legislature

Paul Queary - May 1, 2025 0

Books

Olympia Report: This Year’s Winners at the Legislature

Paul Queary - May 1, 2025 0

We offer this selection of victors from this year’s session with the caveat that we know very little about Gov. Bob Ferguson’s enthusiasm for the veto pen.

Thanks Trump: In Epic Comeback, Liberals Reelected in Canada

Joel Connelly - April 29, 2025 0

Trump’s First 100 Days: Chaos, Outrages and Stunning Incompetence

Mort Kondracke - April 29, 2025 4

Bang the Drum Slowly: How Sen. Cantwell Gets it Done

Joel Connelly - April 28, 2025 6

How Did the State Grow a $8.6 Billion Budget Deficit?

Kriss Sjoblom - April 27, 2025 3

More Politics

The Sculptor who made Seattle Center’s Controversial “Doughboy”

Junius Rochester - April 17, 2025

A Blind Pianist and an Uzbek Conductor at the Seattle Symphony

James C. Whitson - April 10, 2025

The Seattle Symphony’s New Music Director Takes a Bow

Theodore Deacon - April 2, 2025

Only Murders in the Building: A House-full of Enablers

Anthony B. Robinson -

Passing Through: Some Writers Who Stopped Here

Junius Rochester -

Review: Pianist Jeremy Denk makes his Case for Bach

James C. Whitson -

When Alice B. Toklas Lived in Seattle

Junius Rochester -

More Arts

PULSE

How the Northwest Grew a Nordic Heritage

Junius Rochester - May 1, 2025 6

Much of What We Know of Seattle History We Owe to One Man

Junius Rochester - April 29, 2025 0

Central Player: How the Timber Economy Made Washington State

Junius Rochester - April 22, 2025 1

Join Us for a Discussion of Local Journalism this Wednesday

Linda Kramer Jenning - April 21, 2025 2

The Sculptor who made Seattle Center’s Controversial “Doughboy”

Junius Rochester - April 17, 2025 1

The Aspirational Birth of Washington’s University

Junius Rochester - April 12, 2025 2

My Personal Deficit Solution: Tariffs for All!

Steve Clifford - April 11, 2025 3

Father Ryan Announces Retirement as Pastor of St. James Cathedral

Joel Connelly - 3

Histories

The Donut King of First & Pike

Brad Holden - 1

International

Hillbilly Vance’s “Chinese Peasant” Problem

Wendy Liu - 0

Books

How the Northwest Grew a Nordic Heritage

Junius Rochester - 6

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Technology

Clock’s Ticking: Six Reasons Why TikTok Shouldn’t be Banned

Wendy Liu - January 9, 2025 9

As The New York Times characterized it, this is a case of threats to national security vs protection of free speech.

The Big Sort: How Will AI Affect Submissions to Magazines?

Reconnecting with our Technology Roots @ a Georgetown Museum

Tools or Weapons: What the Internet Hath Wrought

AI was Killing My Career. What To Do?

Health

blog

Blue City Blues: Getting Real on Involuntary Commitment

Sandeep Kaushik and David Hyde - February 28, 2025 2

Freddie deBoer is a cogent critic of recent ideological turns within blue city progressive culture.

The Impatient Patient: An Operating Manual

Joel Connelly - 10

“Incurring the Wrath of a Holy God”: Alabama Court Redefines “Children”

Jean Godden - 5

A Year Later: What to do about the Dobbs Abortion Setback

Jean Godden - 3

More Health

How Harold L. Ickes Saved Olympic Peninsula Forests

Junius Rochester - March 17, 2025

What Trump’s Hiring Freeze means to our Stressed National Parks

Joel Connelly - February 13, 2025

The Battle for Preserving Hells Canyon

Joel Connelly - January 27, 2025

Hoaxes and Blaming and Climate Change, Oh My!

Joel Connelly -

Monument-Building: Biden Protects 100s of Millions of Acres of Offshore Land on his Way Out

Joel Connelly -

Washington is Home to Some of the Nation’s Largest Trees

Junius Rochester -

Trashing the Planet with Plastic

Joel Connelly -

Cities

An Unusually Painful Process: City Council Votes For SoDo Housing

Mike Merritt - April 8, 2025 7

It was a surprising defeat for the Port of Seattle and its longshore union allies, who had turned back housing and commercial development there for about 20 years, as well as stopping Hansen’s basketball arena project.